U.S. Issues
Community Displacement is a national issue affecting communities in urban and suburban areas. Urban renewal, suburban renewal, gentrification, corporation and university expansions are all touching various neighborhoods. Many of these residents are ready to fight for their homes. Please see the list below of groups around the country organized to protect their community.
Links are in Word document format and PDF format:
States A-H, States-A-H Word doc.
States I-M, States-I-M-Word doc
States O-Z, States O-Z Word doc
US Issues links and videos. For more details on these links including community partners, please click on the states above.
- Gentrification Web
http://members.lycos.co.uk/gentrification/
- Institute for Justice
- Castle Coalition
- Village West Homeowners and Tenants Association
Contact: Pierre Sands, P.O. Box 331389, Miami, FL 33133
- RENT- (Regional Equity for Neighborhoods and Tenants)
- Miami Workers Center
Contact: Joseph Phelan, 786-261-5788, joseph@theworkerscenter.org
- South Florida Community Development Coalition
Contact: Andrea Baker, Coordinator
300 NW 12th Avenue,
Miami, 33128.
(786) 237-2125
andreab@floridacdc.org
- American Sociological Association
Contact: Margaret Weigers Vitullo, apap@asanet.org
- Concerned Black Clergy
Contact: Rev. Darrell D. Elligan
- Fight Gentrification—Harlem, Brooklyn, East New York, and others
http://fightgentrification.com/
- FUREE—Families United for Racial and Economic Equality
81 Willoughby Street, 701
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Tel: 718.852.2960
Fax: 718.852.2959
email: info@furee.org
- The Chinatown Tenants Union
Contact: Helena Wong at hwong@caaav.org or (212) 473-6485.
- Save Old Cheyenne Coalition
Contact: Kelly Weidlichk
E-mail: weidlich@hkwyolaw.com
Website: http://www.saveoldcheyenne.com/
- Dakota, Minnesota & Eastern Railroad Expansion
E-mail: info@protectrochester.org
Website: http://www.protectrochester.com
- Seattle Displacement Coalition
Contact: John V. Fox
E-mail: sdc@zipcon.net
Phone: 206-632-0668
Website: http://www.zipcon.net/~jvf4119/
- Virginia Tech Intramural Displacement
Athletics Department: hokipoki@vt.edu
- West Virginia Farmland Protection
Website: http://www.wvfarmlandprotection.org/contact.cfm
- Stop the Towers
E-mail: NOTOWERS@notowersinwv.org
Website: http://www.notowersinwv.org/
- UWM Downtown
Contact: uwmdowntown@hotmail.com
Website: http://www.uwmdowntown.org
- Black Mesa Coalition
www.blackmesawatercoalition.org
- Centre on Housing Rights and Evictions COHRE
http://www.cohre.org/mega-events
- The Chinatown Gateway Coalition
Chinatown Gateway Coalition
c/o BCNC
885 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02111
- The West End Community Center (Community Partner)
This site documents the taking of the West End of Boston.
President: Jim Campano can be reached at j.campano@att.net
150 Staniford St.
Boston, MA 02114
Phone (617) 670 – 1900
info@westendcommunitycenter.com
- Environmental Law and Policy Center
35 East Wacker Drive, Suite 1300
Chicago, IL 60601-2110
312 673-6500 (p)
- The Capon Valley Coalition
http://caponvalleycoalition.com/about/
- The Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front
- City Life/Vida Urbana and Jamaica Plain NDC
- Teton Valley Alliance
Email -nolanboyle@tetonvalleyalliance.com
- Earth First! — Groups against the expansion of Interstate 69:
Earth First! Journal- PO Box 3023, Tucson, AZ 85702-3023
- Student Tenant Organizing Project
http://www.areachicago.org/p/issues/solidarieis/stop/
Email: STOPgentrification@gmail.com
- Stopeda.org
http://stopeda.org/currentabuses.htm
- The Coalition to Protect the Rocky Mountain Front
- National Rights New Hampshire
- Harlem Tennants Council
21 West 130th St
New York, NY 10037
harlemtenants@gmail.com
646-812-5188
YouTube videos in regards to community displacement and gentrification in the states listed above:
Your Urban Renewal, My Gentrification (NYU 2009)
Vanishing New York
Please see more videos below–Click on link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cpkz5tt8F4Y Gentrification in Harlem
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiN_XaSo82U Gentrification in Greenpoint, Brooklyn
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oPklH2qYlf8 Community Displacement in Durham, NC
Article: Suburban renewal
The Supremes rule that property seizure’s not just for poor folks anymore
http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=36112
