Gentrification
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Montrose is Dead. Long Live Montrose?
A requiem for Houston’s coolest neighborhood.
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Who Gets To Keep Austin Weird?
Murals at the intersection of Twelfth and Chicon on Austin’s East side were painted over recently, while famous images in the city’s tourist neighborhoods have become institutions.
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Wards Matter
Robert Pruitt’s art vividly portrays the lives and dreams of the people who have long called Houston’s rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods home.
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A White Hipster Apologized For Vandalizing A Restaurant With “F— You White Hipsters”
White hipsters: The least self-aware people on the planet?
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Jordan French, the Landlord Who Demolished the East Austin Piñata Shop, Has Been Forced to Resign From the Company He Started
The PR fallout behind the Jumpolin fiasco continues to grow.
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Demolished East Austin Piñata Shop Is the New Center of Austin’s Gentrification Debate
When the owners of Jumpolin in East Austin went to bed on Wednesday night, they were the proprietors of a piñata shop. When they woke up on Thursday, they had a pile of rubble. But exactly what happened is still a matter of debate.
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Census Maps Show How Income Concentration Has Shifted in Texas
The San Antonio Express-News used Census data to track the physical movement of wealth in a variety of Texas cities. What do those maps teach us?
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Are These Three Neighborhoods Really the Fastest-Gentrifying in Texas?
The Fordham Institute singles out zip codes in Austin, Houston, and Dallas, but his criteria is limited and imprecise.