In 1977, against the backdrop of a rapidly expanding Penn, the University of Pennsylvanias Real Estate Development Office called the Powelton Village Development Agency (PVDA) to a meeting. 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). Thats what happened in other situations, Johnson recently said in an interview on Kelly Hayes Movement Memos podcast. Get 34th Street's newsletter, The Toast, delivered to your inbox every Sunday morning. Black Citymakers: How The Philadelphia Negro Changed Urban America. Penn still plans to continue building north of Market and west of 43rd. 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. The community is worth fighting for. Davids added. The Black Bottom is a historically Black community . The comments are hilarious as they're self aware . . The worlds fair idea was scrapped and on the national level, individual celebrations across the country were encouraged. For the city and real estate developers, it served as a hopeful model for neighborhood revitalization. Ella Comberg, a longtime West Philadelphia resident, describes the university as a kind of silent but huge presence in [her] life.. In the ensuing decades, Society Hill became a touchstone for supporters and detractors of gentrification. The University City Townhomes has provided affordable housing for nearly 40 years. 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). Its not just homes. The rapid influx of wealthier homebuyers triggered alarming demographic changes. There has been a huge uptick in gentrification since 2000. March 29, 2021 / in Liberation Radio / by Liberation Center Staff. Sign up for Prisms newsletter to get first access to news and analysis that makes you thinkand act. In Philadelphia, you can see many neighborhoods experienced gentrification, the map shows. Heller, Gregory L.Ed Bacon: Planning, Politics, and the Building of Modern Philadelphia. But for many students residing in the Penn Bubble, community issues take a backseat. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991. As middle-class residents returned, formerly moribund commercial corridors came alive with restaurants and shops catering to the well-heeled. In the 1970s, these investors sought to differentiate the area from the rest of South Philadelphia by renaming it Queen Village.. In the nineteenth century, West Philadelphia transformed from a countryside of family farms and "gentlemen's" estates to a set of residential communities. Connecting the Past with the Present, Building Community, Creating a Legacy. (Photograph by Donald D. Groff for the Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia.). The most comprehensive, authoritative reference source ever created for the Philadelphia region. The signs of gentrification can be spotted throughout Philadelphia neighborhoods like Brewerytown, Kensington and West Philadelphia, among others. The students have been moved into a new building at 4901 Chestnut. This was the childhood church of Marian Anderson, a world-famous Black singer from South Philadelphia. Or does it help low-income communities? I live near 40th Lancaster Avenue. Penn has just recently begun to acknowledge the history of urban upheaval its caused. 2. Leon Tyer has lived at Penn Wynn House in the Wynnefield neighborhood of West Philadelphia for six years with the help of a federal voucher program that helps low-income people living with HIV/AIDS pay rent. It all comes down, in the end, to money. In the following decades, it encouraged professors to invest in the neighborhood by providing mortgage incentives and funds for building rehabilitations. Earning a national reputation during the mid-century era of urban renewal, he was featured in Time and Life magazines and was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson to the White House's Conference on Recreation and Natural Beauty. Follow The Encyclopedia of Greater Philadelphia on Instagram Eastwick is, as he says, super residential, replete with rowhomes and momandpop shops. Gentrification is generally good. In effect, Penn undermined its own efforts to serve its proximate community, by replacing residents with more of their own. When students go out and work in West Philly, he sees it as lacking a longlasting partnership., In his estimation, ABCS courses send some untrained, rich, and wealthy students who are not from here out into West Philadelphia, who act like they really understand the neighborhood and know what theyre doing. With their artistic connotations, these post-industrial spaces attracted white-collar workers looking for a taste of bohemian lifestyle. The Philadelphia City Council, however, failed to pass a similar measure. There has been a huge uptick in gentrification since 2000. So that is worth fighting for. For the most part, Penn is now a good steward of the neighborhoods it inhabits, he explains. Others were lured by the citys development incentives, which in the late 1990s included a ten-year tax abatement for new construction and large-scale rehabilitations. "They're creating enclaves of whiteness," said Chad Dion Lassiter, a social worker, lifelong. Even though Black residents fought gentrificationforming an anti-displacement group that demanded low-income housing optionstheir efforts were largely unsuccessful. Penn is still displacing people, plain and simple, Casey Lynch (C 18), who has been involved with the Netter Center for four years, said. A minus. 1. Students started another encampment at Penn, demanding the university divest from fossil fuels, stop the eviction of Townhomes residents, and make payments in lieu of taxes (PILOTS) to the school district. Inscription. As the city transitioned towards a post-industrial economy in the ensuing decades, neighborhood revival became a key focus for municipal government. It succeeded in upgrading real estate values but also faced criticism from long-established residents. Using an income-based definition of gentrification, only 15 of Philadelphia's 372 residential census tracts were found to have gentrified from 2000 to 2014. In 1970, the neighborhood had only 90 housing units; by 1990, it had 1,665. This initiative froze tax increases for residents who had occupied their homes for more than ten years and faced higher assessments as a result of skyrocketing property values. Others were more mercenary, buying and renovating abandoned shells for profit. The disruptions of convocation and the BIA meeting and Bishop Barbers gathering all led to a response from a university representative deflecting and downplaying Penns involvement in the sale. 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. His latest publication is Closer to Heaven: Race and Diversity in Suburban America, which will appear in the Journal of Urban History in 2015. During the late-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, newly built suburbs outside of Center City intensified these divisions. 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. 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. New buildings could reflect modern architectural styles and the owner's tastes, as long as the designs were approved by the Philadelphia Redevelopment Authority. This was a rare type of coalition: cross-class and multiracial, gentrifiers allied with the existing population to reject the destruction of modernist city planning. WHYY story by Katie Colaneri. I was deeply saddened. In the 2010s, Philadelphia tried to strike an equilibrium between development and stasis, renewal and disruption, gentrification and decay. With the passage of the 1981 Economic Recovery Tax Act, developers could enjoy up to a 25 percent tax credit on the cost of rehabilitating certified historic structures. The gentrification has caused the displacement of some low-income residents and people of color. Cedar Park is one of the hottest areas in the city, and housing values are spiking dramatically. On South Street, the Theatre of the Living Arts put on avant-garde works under artistic director Andre Gregory. And resentment towards Penn simmers in the West Philly community. 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. By 1933, Wilbur & Sons chocolate business had outgrown the facility and the building changed ownership and remained underutilized until an investment company purchased the property in 1986. 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. The Dock Street market diminished in size after World War II as competition from other markets and changes in distribution forced some merchants to move elsewhere. Jared Ware is a freelance journalist primarily covering social movements and prisoner organizing. Queen Villages heyday of diversity and cooperation proved to be short-lived, however. By the late 1980s, Manayunks Main Street boasted dozens of new shops, bars, and restaurants, many housed in refurbished historic buildings. Is Philadelphia a gentrification? As more creative class consumers moved to the neighborhood, they were followed by cafes and bars that catered to their bohemian tastes. Dr. Palmers family was evicted from their home in 1969. To him, its untouched by the tentacles of development, a community similar to West Philly 20 years ago. Many of these working-class immigrants were employed in restaurant and domestic servicesa sector that grew along with Philadelphias affluent urban class. The resident-led struggle to defend these homes has galvanized people in Philadelphia around the defense of housing for Black, Brown, working-class, poor, elderly, and disabled residents. The thing that we wont have is you evicting dozens of, hundreds of elderly Black people and putting them on the street and possibly leading to their early deaths. Simon, Roger D. and Brian Alnutt, Philadelphia, 1982-2007: Toward the Postindustrial City. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 131 (Oct. 2007), 395-444. After those initial displacements, the UC Townhomes were built on real estate that at the time was not desirable to middle and upper-class white residents. Penn, unbeknownst to renters, created the blight it needed, Dr. Palmer explained. After serving in the United States Navy during WWII, Bacon joined the Philadelphia City Planning Commission and became the executive director of the committee in 1949. Many uprooted residents resettled elsewhere in the citysome moving to adjoining neighborhoods still awaiting rehabilitation, some following cheaper rents to inner-ring suburbs. West Philadelphia has been called many names over the years. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - On Sept. 29, just minutes into freshman convocation, Liz Magill's first major speech as University of Pennsylvania president was disrupted by about 100 protesters. Instead, research from West Virginia University economist Zachary Porreca shows that when one urban WVU economist Zachary Porreca compared data on property values and shootings in Philadelphia and found that when one block gentrifies, drug crime migrates to neighboring blocks, escalati Its stated aim was to make Penn reasonable, alive, and healthy once again. 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. In the Old City section of Center City Philadelphia, H.O. There have been spectacular moments, but also low points: While Johnson says he always believed it could be done, he acknowledged that in the beginning of July, it didnt seem like people were going to pay attention, but thats why there was the encampment.. The gentrification of Queen Village and Society Hill were exceptions in a region that continued to suffer the effects of deindustrialization and decline. As of 2010, the neighborhood is majority-white for the first time since 1970, a stunning reversal . One by one, local associations, congregations, and ultimately whole communities fell prey to the vicissitudes of the real estate market. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1990. Protect Squirrel Hill, a coalition of neighbors in the Squirrel Hill area of West Philadelphia, rallied April 3 against a proposed luxury apartment building. By 1980, the University of Pennsylvania was the citys largest private employer. The building of bridges across the Schuylkill River further promoted development, including that of hospitals and other benevolent institutions. Sterling Johnson, an organizer with Philadelphia Housing Action, recalls a small meeting last fall with Gerald Sid Bolling from the Black Bottom Tribe that included some residents. By May 20, 2016. For every new town house built in Graduate Hospital or Queen Village, scores of crumbling row houses were demolished in Nicetown and Kensington. In 2014, Philadelphia City Council enacted the Longtime Owner Occupants Program (LOOP). 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. Context: IBID Associates, the owner of the 70-unit complex at 3990 Market St., didn't renew its affordable housing contract with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, which expires July 2022. View Full Report Card. She and her siblings couldnt afford the new property tax. They lost their safety, their support systems.. Low sales forced dozens of businesses to leave the building over the years and the NewMarket formally closed in 1987. Adams, Carolyn et al. By August 4, 2016. East Mount Airy is a neighborhood in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania with a population of 21,236. In a few short years, Southwark saw a dramatic decline in its working-class population along with the conversion of its mixed-use streetscapes into expensive residential-only corridors. As industrial jobs evaporated, Greater Philadelphias institutional service sector expanded. Some residents and leaders in Philadelphia are upset - the University of Pennsylvania's investments in policing and a local school have made parts of the city . Gillette, Howard. You didn't ask this, but because of this, the upside potential right now is greater in North Philadelphia. As market-rate development proliferated, nearly 110,000 households remained on a waiting list for subsidized or low-cost housing. Attendees said that groups of residents are trying to fend off gentrification in West Philadelphia. From 1970 to 1990, Philadelphia lost over 18 percent of its remaining residents, its population falling to nearly a half a million people below its postwar peak. Dylan Gottlieb is a Ph.D. student at Princeton University, where he works on recent American urban history. He recalls that, before much of the neighborhood was displaced, there were around 5,000 residents who cared about each other. Many of the Bottoms residents have gathered for a reunion in Fairmount Park every year since the mid1970s. And what does it say that we exist in a gentrified spaceone that our school created? WVU economist Zachary Porreca compared data on property values and shootings in Philadelphia and found that when one block gentrifies, drug crime migrates to neighboring blocks, escalating in the. But in reality theyre just untrained, typically nonchalant kids.. Developers met the demand, refashioning old factories into spacious lofts. 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. "The West Philadelphia Problem" asks listeners to problematize concepts like "safety" and "crime," and to interrogate the role academia has had in legitimizing these terms. Developed alongside people on the frontlines of injustice, Prism will help deepen your understanding on the most pressing issues of our time. However, due to political and financial disagreements, Bacons vision was never realized. This "process" is very dangerous as it has a notorious reputation of displacing old residents and creating terrible living situations for those it has not displaced. On . Follow Backgrounders on Twitter Sandy Smith In describing why the residents have fought so vigorously to defend their homes, UC Townhomes resident Sheldon Davids offered the following remarks at a recent Ruth Wilson Gilmore book talk at the Philadelphia Public Library. Residents of neighborhoods undergoing the most rapid changes watched as their longstanding social networks evaporated. In 1970, the neighborhood was nearly 50 percent Black. For the first of three mapping layers, the city's Bureau of Planning and Sustainability (BPS) used . As in Society Hill, Queen Villages African Americans were the most dramatically affected by 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. 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. 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. Beginning in the 1950s and 1960s the University of Pennsylvania and Drexel started on a pattern of. She spent most of her young life in a house on 43rd Street and Larchwood Avenue and attended the Penn Alexander School. In July 2021, the owner, IBID Associates LP, announced they would allow their contract with HUD to expire and their intent to sell the property. 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. The overlay district sits in a West Philadelphia neighborhood that has been subject to gentrification. South Street, its once-bustling commercial thoroughfare, lost customers to suburban shopping malls. Even as the city government struggled to balance the costs and benefits of neighborhood revival, many areas remained untouched by the effects of gentrification. These actions lasted for months and were eventually settled through an agreement by Philadelphia Housing Authority and the City of Philadelphia to hand over 50 vacant publicly owned houses to a community land trust. According to his attorney, Gray died a week later in the hospital from a severe spinal cord injury he received while in police custody. Sign up for our newsletter to get updates that make you think and actdirectly to your inbox. Rising housing costs in gentrifying neighborhoods exact real costs in the lives of Philadelphia families. Gilmores definition of racism, the state-sanctioned or extralegal production and exploitation of group-differentiated vulnerability to premature death, is also instructive in terms of what residents and organizers are fighting against. They also converted spacious industrial spaces into arts and music venues. In their wake, others moved to the newly-dubbed neighborhood for reasons that were cultural as much as financial. In the Old City area just north of Society Hill, those tax incentives encouraged developers to convert abandoned workshops into stylish loft apartments. While Temples administration tried to encourage better relations between students and residents, it did little to discourage the spread of private development around its campus. That demonstrated to other residents that fighting back could be effective. In this image from 1977, three children are looking through trash at one of Southwark Plaza's dilapidated playgrounds. While she might be new to her role, her institutions legacy is inescapablelocal NPR/PBS affiliate WHYY has noted that Penn has undertaken policies that produced some of the most acute gentrification Philadelphia has ever seen.. 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. By 1990, that figure had fallen to 20 percent. There were teach-ins, rallies, marches, and protests at the property owners offices outside the city. Anderson, Elijah. Society Hill Towers claimed five acres of that area; the rest of the space, seen in this 1965 aerial image, was filled with other commercial buildings and landscaped parks by 1977. The plot of land used to house the Transition to Independent Living Center, which formerly provided affordable assisted living for aging adults with belowaverage incomes, before it burned down six years ago and has since laid vacant. 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. Study: Philly's gentrifying neighborhoods are resegregating. In the West Philadelphia area around Mantua, gentrification is a constant, looming concern. While there are many other residents and organizers involved in the coalition at this pointincluding over 50 organizations listed as allies on their websiteAlexander and Johnson represent a core aspect of the struggle: a tight relationship between militant housing activists and fiercely committed residents fighting for their community and for the ability to defend their homes from the profiteering motive of the property owner. Gentrification has been rapidly encroaching upon low-income Black communities nationwide, and has been running rampant in North Philadelphia for the past 15 years. Studies have linked gentrification to a number of health problems for longterm neighborhood residents. But nobody could deny the effectiveness of the organizing, which has forced the property owner to extend its contract with HUD again, this time until the end of December. It also goes by another namethe Master Plan. This process accelerated after its inclusion on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. The gentrification taking place in West Philadelphia is often referred to as Penntrification. The student solidarity work has drawn disciplinary proceedings by the administration. Hunter, Marcus Anthony. Churches and synagogues, relics of the neighborhoods immigrant past, were converted to market-rate lofts. 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. The movement that disrupted this event has become one of the most dynamic forces in Philadelphia in recent months. This image from 1973 shows the house while the interior was still under construction. But as she saw how the situation impacted more vulnerable people in the Townhomes, Alexander decided to get involved. As part of the redevelopment of Society Hill in the 1970s, the NewMarket was an attempt by real estate developers to create a modern shopping center within walking distance of local residents. Three weeks after the encampment was dismantled came the disruption of Penns freshman convocation, bringing even more Penn students into the movement. Typical buzzwords but the employees seem to demand that ownership be transferred to said queer BIPOC employees because of gentrification, reparations, and harm reduction, etc. Refurbished Victorian houses, lofts created from abandoned manufacturing buildings, and newly constructed townhouses provided a variety of living possibilities that reflected Manayunk's history as an industrial outpost of Philadelphia. 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. There is a stereotype that gentrification refers to low-income African Americans being pushed out by rich whites, but this is not the case in many of the areas in Philly where gentrification is occurring. By the early 2000s, it boasted scores of infill projects and row-house rehabilitations. In the 1990s, young urban professionals flocked to the area. New York: Routledge, 1996. In academics and activism, gentrification is understood as the displacement of a lower-income community in terms of demographic and economic changes. The area of the Dock Street Market in Society Hill was a place of commerce for more than two centuries before it was demolished in 1959 to allow construction of the residential Society Hill Towers. However, gentrification and racialized displacement have intensified in recent years as Penn has continued targeted investments. The land finally came under redevelopment after the Toll Brothers purchased the land in 2013 to construct condominiums. 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. Fighting Gentrification in West Philadelphia. Gentrification had become a policy problem necessitating a public response. 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. Yet by the turn of the twenty-first century, things were changing rapidly in DuBois Seventh Ward. Rasheda Alexander, a resident council member at the development, remembers seeing a few organizers tabling near the parking lot on weekends in the winter. In rapidly changing neighborhoods like Old City, minority residents often suffered the brunt of such measures. Manayunk, a working-class mill district along the Schuylkill River to the northwest of Center City, was one such area. 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