Gentrification & Moving People Concluding Remarks References Philadelphia continues to have some of the highest rates of poverty in the United States. It remained to be seen if the city could enjoy the fruits of revival without obliterating its legacy of diverse and vibrant neighborhoods. Soon after, Penn moved westward. The Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority, a city agency, spearheaded the project. The worlds fair idea was scrapped and on the national level, individual celebrations across the country were encouraged. The encampment also had symbolic importance according to Johnson: The tents were a projection of the real byproductshomelessnessof mass evictions of poor residents. Yet by the turn of the twenty-first century, things were changing rapidly in DuBois Seventh Ward. Penn, unbeknownst to renters, created the blight it needed, Dr. Palmer explained. They also converted spacious industrial spaces into arts and music venues. At 78.5 percent African American in 1990, the neighborhood was less than one-third Black by 2014. These land seizures, coupled with the 1963 construction of the University City Science Center, fractured the community. Indeed, the effect of these localized neighborhood transformations could not stem the continued exodus from the city. Annabelle Williams is a sophomore in Wharton from Chester Springs, PA, studying Management and Marketing. Gillette, Howard. At the same time, other historical features were sacrificed in the name of development. Pictured here years before his appointment as Executive Director of the Philadelphia Housing Association, Edmund Bacon is sometimes referred to as The Father of Modern Philadelphia. Born in the Philadelphia suburbs in 1910, he studied architecture at Cornell University and introduced a plan for a new civic center for Philadelphia as part of his senior thesis. Census data, when adjusted for inflation, indicates a massive jump in Philadelphia property valuesan average increase 213% since 2000. Disinvestment only intensified after the financial crisis of 2008, as banks tightened up loan requirements and refused to extend credit to the most blighted areas. Thats typical for a gentrifying city. She and her siblings couldnt afford the new property tax. Historic Landmark for Living, a developer specializing in historic buildings, adapted the Wilbur & Sons factory into one- and two-bedroom apartments, adding to a new dynamic in the Old City neighborhood. New York: Routledge, 1996. He . In the 1960s, sociologist Ruth Glass provided an evergreen definition of gentrification: when working class quarters have been invaded by the middle classuntil all or most of the working class occupiers are displaced and the whole social character of the district is changed., Gentrifications link to displacement is undeniable. For many Philadelphians, the 60s and 70s made evident Penns active role in spreading gentrification outward from campus. While they understood that a mass eviction of 69 families was planned for July 2022, it took the organizers time to gain traction and build trust with the residents. In 2014, Philadelphia City Council enacted the Longtime Owner Occupants Program (LOOP). As the Bicentennial approached, Bacon proposed that Philadelphia host a worlds fair to coincide with the 1976 celebration. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2005. Its now down to 42,000. Its one of the few places where folks who are on public housing vouchers can still access things like public transportation, a public library, medical care, markets, local stores, and other essential amenities with relative ease, said Davids. However, gentrification and racialized displacement have intensified in recent years as Penn has continued targeted investments. After World War II, suburbanization exploded. They lost their safety, their support systems.. Penn professors benefit from Penns Home Ownership Services, which helps Penn faculty and staff apply for closing cost assistance for home purchasing and funds towards home improvement. This incentivizes university affiliates to buy property in the area, and to send their kids to school in the district. Constructed at Third and New Streets in 1902, in the 1920s Wilbur & Sons had to remove a section of the building to make room for construction of the Delaware River Bridge (later renamed the Benjamin Franklin Bridge). Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel started on a pattern of development that first displaced residents of the Black Bottom. The most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. But neither was it entirely unwelcome. And no one can question the rapidity with which its occurring. Attendees said that groups of residents are trying to fend off gentrification in West Philadelphia. The Netter Center offers ABCS (Academically Based Community Service) courses in which students can interact with the surrounding community. With the rapid loss of human and monetary resources in the central city and the expansion of wealthier, primarily white suburbs, the stage had been set for gentrification in Greater Philadelphia. As the nearby blocks of Queen Village saw large investments from city organizations to restore houses and raise property values, Southwark Plaza apartment buildings had broken elevators, limited electricity, and a trash-filled landscape. For example, when the university partnered with the school district to fund Penn Alexander Elementary in 2001, 57% of the students in its catchment area were African American; as of 2021, Black students represented less than 17% of the student body. On South Street, the Theatre of the Living Arts put on avant-garde works under artistic director Andre Gregory. I think that Penn students are complicit in Penntrification, though I think that the more significant blame lies with the institution, Casey adds. After rallying at City Hall, protesters stormed the BIA networking event at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, confronting developers and public officials. Get 34th Street's newsletter, The Toast, delivered to your inbox every Sunday morning. Southwarks fortunes had begun to fade after World War II. A 2016 study by the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia found that the city has lost roughly 20,000 lowcost rental units (rent and utilities under $750) since 2000. From 1982 to 1984, Philadelphia led the nation in the number of claims for such tax credits. The gentrification taking place in West Philadelphia is often referred to as Penntrification. May 10, 2017. Manayunk (/ m n j k / MAN--yunk) is a neighborhood in the section of Lower Northwest Philadelphia in the state of Pennsylvania.Located adjacent to the neighborhoods of Roxborough and Wissahickon and also on the banks of the Schuylkill River, Manayunk contains the first canal begun in the United States (although not the first completed, due to budget problems). Philadelphia: Neighborhoods, Division, and Conflict in a Postindustrial City. New buildings could reflect modern architectural styles and the owner's tastes, as long as the designs were approved by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. That demonstrated to other residents that fighting back could be effective. This article was originally published at Prism. Gentrification could not occur without the initial separation of Greater Philadelphias residents by class, race, and country of origin. He was awarded a scholarship and continued his study at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan, later finding work in Flint, Michigan, before returning to Philadelphia and becoming director of the housing association. In this image from 1977, three children are looking through trash at one of Southwark Plaza's dilapidated playgrounds. Three weeks after the encampment was dismantled came the disruption of Penns freshman convocation, bringing even more Penn students into the movement. A neighborhood group in Philadelphia is asking opponents of a proposed apartment building to mail in poop samples as part of a study on how gentrification impacts cancer rates. Both Alexander and Johnson attest that constant meetings and forcing the owner to extend the HUD contract multiple times has been stressful on the residents. This process accelerated after its inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. Many. The Black Bottom is a historically Black community . The candy making there gave way to residential development. The month-long encampment in the Townhomes courtyard by residents and supporters was one of the watershed moments in the fight. Eastwick is, as he says, super residential, replete with rowhomes and momandpop shops. CamdenAftertheFall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City. He also confirmed Penns involvement in a new mixeduse development in the 4600 block of Pine Street. In a plan for a safer, vibrant 52nd Street, worried West Philly neighbors see gentrification looming Angst is roiling minority neighborhoods as they struggle to balance the opportunities and the threats created by gentrification. Studies have linked gentrification to a number of health problems for longterm neighborhood residents. Gentrification has been rapidly encroaching upon low-income Black communities nationwide, and has been running rampant in North Philadelphia for the past 15 years. There has been a huge uptick in gentrification since 2000. Factors that had once driven people away from citiestheir density, their older housing stock, the presence of ethnic and racial minoritiesnow drew them back to the urban core. Johnson notes that these actions started out small but were continuous and built up over time. West Philadelphia's total population was 301,830, with blacks numbering 158,176; whites, 142,368. And gentrification is only now beginning to take root north of Girard Avenue, in some of the most heavily disinvested and pockmarked North Philadelphia neighborhoods (Sharswood, Brewerytown, Strawberry Mansion, Fairhill.). Philadelphia Housing Action, for its part, has worked to decommodify housing by experimenting with collective ownership, Johnson said in an interview on the Millennials Are Killing Capitalism podcast, attempting to remove properties from the unrelenting throes of the housing market. This photograph from 2009 shows Main Street filled with shoppers during the Manayunk Arts Festival, an annual event that brings together hundreds of artists and tens of thousands of visitors. Across the Delaware River, Camden, New Jersey, still awaited significant revitalization. Many of the industrial complexes that dotted Philadelphia emptied in the later twentieth century, leaving hulks of buildings towering over the residences that once housed their workers. By the 2010s, Greater Philadelphia was grappling with issues familiar to all urban areas in the midst of gentrification. He described how he was able to find his way as a young immigrant from Jamaica decades ago thanks to the ease of access, and painted a picture of the organic security. Townhomes residents have been able to provide for the communitys children. But for many students residing in the Penn Bubble, community issues take a backseat. In the 1970s, these investors sought to differentiate the area from the rest of South Philadelphia by renaming it Queen Village.. Housing activists and UC Townhomes residents fight gentrification in West Philadelphia Housing activists, university students, and residents have staged protests and encampments to defend low-income housing in UC Townhomes by Jared Ware October 7th, 2022 Seemingly overnight, gastropubs and vintage clothing stores appeared along Girard Avenue, Fishtowns commercial corridor. The community is worth fighting for. Davids added. National food writers raved about South Streets burgeoning selection of gourmet restaurants, where diners could enjoy soft-shell crab tempura or salmon with sorrel beurre blanc. In recent years, a number of Philadelphia neighborhoods have undergone significant transformation, with higher-income residents moving in, real estate prices rising, new businesses . For years, the extant Black, Polish, and Jewish communities had mobilized to thwart the plan. Universities also continued to play an outsized role in the transformation of their surrounding neighborhoods. Ethnic businesseskosher wine merchants, haberdasheries, and furrierswere reincarnated as vegetarian restaurants, feminist bookstores, and hip clothing boutiques. Throughout the post-World War II period, Philadelphia struggled valiantly to entice the middle class back from the suburbs. Many native West Philadelphians declare, often on bumper stickers: This is West Philly. Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy. Gentrification is generally good. Each of the next five decennial censuses (1970, 1980, 1990, 2000, 2010) would show the steadily increasing, dominant share of West Philadelphia's population represented by blacks. Restoring the citys historic housing stock, Bacon reasoned, would encourage upper-income residents to move back to the citythereby stabilizing its dwindling tax base and upgrading real estate values. In academics and activism, gentrification is understood as the displacement of a lower-income community in terms of demographic and economic changes. Ira Goldstein, a lecturer in Penns Urban Studies department and the president of Policy Solutions for the Reinvestment Fund, teaches a course on gentrification. A NYC cannabis community space is harming their workers and Black-led businesses, Industrialized water containment projects ignore the needs of Indigenous communities, Proudly powered by Newspack by Automattic. Empty buildings and older housing with little government or private investor support led to declining populations and social institutions throughout industrial neighborhoods. Other gentrifying cities experimented with inclusionary zoning, which ensured new projects would include a percentage of affordable units. Her father, David Comberg, teaches in the School of Design at Penn, but the family initially moved to the area for his job at UArts. Meanwhile, the percentage of college-educated adults in the neighborhood shot up from under four percent in 1950 to 64 percent by 1980. Many uprooted residents resettled elsewhere in the citysome moving to adjoining neighborhoods still awaiting rehabilitation, some following cheaper rents to inner-ring suburbs. Galvanized around a struggle to defend the University City Townhomes, a 70-unit housing complex that has operated under a Section 8 project-based subsidy program for the last 40 years. Penn is still displacing people, plain and simple, Casey Lynch (C 18), who has been involved with the Netter Center for four years, said. Universities and hospitals, which could not move their operations out of the city, fueled this growth. Creating its first maps of gentrification in 2013, Portland was one of the first U.S. cities to use data visualizations in order to better understand neighborhood change and displacement. Beginning in the late 1960s, the neighborhood began to change as some white middle-class pioneers were lured to the area by the promise of affordable housing near Center City. (Author information current at time of publication.). Residents resisted these displacement efforts as well, although ultimately the universitiesPenn, Drexel, and University of the Sciences, which is now part of Saint Josephs Universitywon out with the federal governments backing, and thousands of Black residents were dispersed to other parts of the city. South Street, its once-bustling commercial thoroughfare, lost customers to suburban shopping malls. And while that goal might have seemed outlandish to many in the winter of 2021, it seems quite possible now. Penns status as the largest employer in Philadelphia, its large endowment and the socioeconomic position of its students and staff complicates its existence in West Philadelphia. Inscription. The gentrification of University City, or "Penntrification," forces Philadelphia's already vulnerable Black population out of their homes and brings white families and students into their former neighborhoods. The movement that disrupted this event has become one of the most dynamic forces in Philadelphia in recent months. In effect, Penn undermined its own efforts to serve its proximate community, by replacing residents with more of their own. In the following decades, it encouraged professors to invest in the neighborhood by providing mortgage incentives and funds for building rehabilitations. Alexander also describes the struggle, and the encampment specifically, as having generated more unity, even providing space for the children in the Townhomes to have a movie night outside, paint, dance, learn to skateboard, and become more directly involved in defending the Townhomes. When did . Waging a struggle against the rights of property owners seems like an uphill fight in a capitalist society, but it is not the first time that some of the organizers have been involved in such a pitched battle. Longtime residents complained about loud parties and unkempt rental properties. This building became a commercial property in the 1980s and later a pharmacy for Society Hill residents. Newcomers cosmopolitan tastes contributed to the alienation of the neighborhoods working-class residents. Developed alongside people on the frontlines of injustice, Prism will help deepen your understanding on the most pressing issues of our time. The black population in West Philly has decreased by 29% from 2000 to 2012. Philip Gentry, a Lea School parent and member of the West Philly Coalition for Neighborhood Schools, said that he has seen some signs of potential gentrification occurring as a result of the funding granted to the Lea School. Colonial row houses, they believed, were a stark contrast to the stultifying sameness of the suburbs. In the ensuing decades, Society Hill became a touchstone for supporters and detractors of gentrification. It garnered media attention, brought the community into the fight, and helped residents build greater connection with activists, students, and organized labor in the city. Some residents burned trash inside their apartments for heat, or left it inside broken elevator shafts or outside the apartment buildings. Sandy Smith In their wake, others moved to the newly-dubbed neighborhood for reasons that were cultural as much as financial. UCity is just a marketing scheme.. By August 4, 2016. The protesters, including students, chanted "Save UC Townhomes" and "stop Penn-trification." The Philadelphia City Council, however, failed to pass a similar measure. Homesteaders and developers were encouraged to renovate the neighborhoods row houses themselves. By the early 2000s, it boasted scores of infill projects and row-house rehabilitations. Even though it was not subject to the physical destruction seen in Society Hill, this neighborhood experienced a similar degree of social disruption. In buying up properties in the Black Bottom en masse and then having landlords evict longtime residents, they made space for the nowprimarily commercial development on Market Street. Its not just homes. The Plans effects were keenly felt in the Black Bottom, a primarily black and disadvantaged neighborhood that earned its name from its place at the bottom of West Philadelphia (from 32nd Street to 40th Street between Lancaster Ave and University Ave). As Philadelphias population rose for the first time since World War II, an increasing number of neighborhoods outside of Center City began to experience a revival. (Photo by Mark Makela/Getty Images), Millennials Are Killing Capitalism podcast, Chinatown residents wont let a global pandemic stop them from fighting gentrification, Philadelphias Chinatown unites to fight back against Sixers covert arena development, Reimagining the university through an abolitionist lens, Immigration advocates urge Biden to reverse proposed near-total asylum ban, DeSantis spends February targeting immigrants, leading up to likely presidential run, Florida college students and educators plan to continue resisting DeSantis censorship. Heller, Gregory L.Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia. Jared Ware is a freelance journalist primarily covering social movements and prisoner organizing. Even as Philadelphia experienced deindustrialization and decline in the 1970s, a handful of neighborhoods began to experience a phenomenon known as gentrificationa process where affluent individuals settled in lower-income areas. Penn was in search of a grant for urban renewal at the time; but the grant stipulated that the neighborhood needed to be blighted (i.e., so unsafe, uninhabitable, or dilapidated that it is a candidate for eminent domain). One 1978 study estimated that real estate taxes in Queen Village had increased almost 300 percent since the start of the decade. West Philadelphia's population shifted from majority-white to majority-black between 1950 and 1960. This map shows what the gentrification measure we created looks like in Philadelphia between 1990-2000 and 2000- 2010. Or does it help low-income communities? It also goes by another namethe Master Plan. In 1960, the black and white shares were 52.4% and 47.2%, respectively. As of 2010, the neighborhood is majority-white for the first time since 1970, a stunning reversal . Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. Wilbur & Sons, a chocolate company established in 1884, was once a setting for the mixing and molding of chocolate candies. The top three means of transportation people in West Philadelphia use to get to work are: car, bus or trolley bus and walking. In a few short years, the once-conservative immigrant neighborhood had become a hotbed of hip nightlife. The protesters, including students, chanted Save UC Townhomes and stop Penn-trification. After sitting briefly, Magill attempted to continue, making the disrespectful suggestion to the protesters, among whom were local residents facing eviction, that Democracy cannot work unless people can live together, learn from one another and, paradoxically, disagree. Amid continuous chants, Magill was unable to finish her remarks. Ella is critical of her former school, and how she thinks it serves the University and its facultys families more than unaffiliated West Philly residents. Penn Alexander receives operating contribution of $1330 per student from the university, in addition to staffing and teaching assistance from Penns Graduate School of Education. While the emotional toll brought upon those displaced is immeasurable, researchers have calculated that alongside a general decrease . Special Collections Research Center, Temple University Libraries. Gentrifying tracts experienced the second highest average violent crime rate between 2014 and 2019 at 13.4 per 100 residents, while non-gentrifiable tractsmostly middle- to upper-income and predominantly whitehad the lowest average violent crime rate over the six-year period at 6.7 per 100 residents. Penns expansion originally centered on Locust Walk. In Philadelphia, you can see many neighborhoods experienced gentrification, the map shows. A minus. He is the co-host and producer of the podcast Millennials Are Killing Capitalism. Penns Civic House sponsored an urban studies class (URBS 178) on universitycommunity relations that addresses the schools difficult history with its surroundings. The apartments had modern amenities and views unavailable to people who purchased a historic row house in Society Hill. The North Philadelphia neighborhood, which straddles Germantown Avenue just west of Broad Street and Erie Avenue, has seen its population rise 4 percent (above the city's 1 percent increase), its housing prices rose 11 percent again above the citywide average. Hunter, Marcus Anthony. How do students pop this proverbial bubble? In many cases, this results in the demise of historically and culturally valuable communal institutions. Gentrification is the opposite of white flight when residents voluntarily move away as a neighborhood declines. NewMarket had entrances on Front and Second Streets, leading to a large courtyard, a central fountain, and the entrances to many of the shops. In the Old City section of Center City Philadelphia, H.O. As more creative class consumers moved to the neighborhood, they were followed by cafes and bars that catered to their bohemian tastes. Johnson says one small breakthrough came when they helped defend a resident facing an immediate eviction and were able to stop that process. How This Philadelphia Neighborhood is Gentrifying Without Displacement Announcing our newest Solutions of the Year special issue magazine. By spurring renovation and elevating housing values, gentrification broadened the citys tax base. I was deeply saddened. More than 240,000 households citywide (40% of all households) are forced to spend 30% or more of their income on housing. As anticipated, property values soared, rising nearly 250 percent during the 1960s. Ultimately, the return of the middle and upper classes to the city was not a panacea for all of the regions ills. Does it push long-time residents out in favor of the highest bidder? . Streetwise: Race, Class, and Change in an Urban Community. Using those criteria, Nicetown has taken steps forward in the last five years. East Mount Airy is in Philadelphia County. Penn encourages students and faculty to explore off campus. As the 2000s wore on, the revitalization of residential neighborhoods became the cornerstone of Philadelphias revivaleven as the city struggled to temper gentrifications most harmful consequences. Simon, Roger D. and Brian Alnutt, Philadelphia, 1982-2007: Toward the Postindustrial City. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 131 (Oct. 2007), 395-444. In the same period, tax credits helped spur commercial revivals in other historic neighborhoods. 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