Guides: History: Primary Sources for Student Projects: Housing and Gentrification

Housing and Gentrification

Denver Gentrification Maps and Data
To assess how gentrification has reshaped urban neighborhoods, Governing analyzed demographic data for the nation’s 50 most populous cities. Changes in several measures, described below, were calculated for each city’s Census tracts and compared to others throughout metro areas.
Urban Displacement Project
The Urban Displacement Project (UDP) is a research and action initiative of UC Berkeley. UDP conducts community-centered, data-driven, applied research toward more equitable and inclusive futures for cities.
Housing and Urban Development Online Library
Includes links to HUD resources, research, and data.
Fair Housing Justice Center
The Fair Housing Justice Center (FHJC), a nonprofit civil rights organization, is dedicated to: Eliminating housing discrimination; Promoting policies that foster open, accessible, and inclusive communities; and strengthening enforcement of fair housing laws.
Mapping Inequality
Mapping Inequality brings one of the country's most important archives to the public. HOLC's documents contain a wealth of information about how government officials, lenders, and real estate interests surveyed and ensured the economic health of American cities.
Mapping Prejudice
Mapping Inequality was conceived by the University of Richmond's Digital Lab, which digitized New Deal redlining maps to illuminate how federal policy makers "used racial criteria to categorize lending and insurance risks."
Where Is Gentrification Happening In Your City?
This index serves as an exploratory tool, providing residents and municipal employees alike with an accessible platform for information on gentrification. The visualization empowers users to conduct their own analyses in order to understand geospatial trends in gentrification that can inform interventions.

Library Resources

Ralph J. Bunche Oral Histories Collection on the Civil Rights Movement This link opens in a new window
The Ralph J. Bunche Oral History Collection from the Moorland-Spingarn Research Center is a unique resource for the study of the era of the American civil rights movement. Included here are transcriptions of close to 700 interviews with those who made history in the struggles for voting rights, against discrimination in housing, for the desegregation of the schools, to expose racism in hiring, in defiance of police brutality, and to address poverty in the African American communities.