5 Best Gentrification Podcasts

1. Defying Gentrification Blog

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Love living in cities, but tired of feeling like you don't belong or don't understand why and how they work? Want to understand more about what gentrification means and how to both defy and eradicate it? Join me, Kristen Jeffers, Black queer feminist, disabled, urbanist essayist, editor, and urban planner from the South, living in the MidAtlantic, each week, along with some special guests, to discuss gentrification: what it is, and what it isn't, and how we as Black folks and our co-conspirators, can not just survive on a changing planet but thrive...MORE Producer/Network Kristen Jeffers
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2. There Goes the Neighborhood

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A podcast about how and why gentrification happens. Season 3, produced in partnership with WLRN, Miami's public radio station, introduces us to 'climate gentrification,' reporting about the ways climate change, and our adaption to it, may seriously intensify the affordable housing crisis in many cities. In many parts of the US, black communities were pushed to low-lying flood prone areas. As Nadege Green reports, in Miami, the opposite is true. Black communities were built on high elevation away from the coast. Now because of sea level rise that high land is in demand...MORE Host Kai Wright
Producer/Network WNYC Studios and KCRW
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 10k-50k
Apple Rating 4.7/5Apple Reviews 582 Avg Length 26 min Format Medium form Get Email Contact

3. West End Stories Project

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The West End Stories Project captures the experiences of individuals who lived in Cincinnati's West End during the second half of the 20th century for urbanites today who want to know more about the neighborhood's transformation. Cincinnati's West End was once a vibrant community full of people, opportunities, and excitement. But due to urban renewal projects in the 1950s, the historic West End was largely razed for the creation of interstate I-75 and housing projects. This, combined with segregation, white flight, and redlining decimated this predominantly Black community, and the community still hasn't recovered...MORE Producer/Network Cincinnati & Hamilton County Public Library
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Apple Rating 4.8/5Apple Reviews 18 Avg Length 12 min Format Short form Get Email Contact

4. The Neighborhood Watch Podcast

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A spinoff of 'The Atlanta Way: A Documentary on Gentrification', covering gentrification, urbanism and culture. .New episodes every Tuesday and Friday at 6:30pm!
Host King Williams
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 100-1k
Apple Rating 5/5Apple Reviews 5Facebook 65Twitter 781Instagram 94 Avg Length 51 min Format Long form Get Email Contact

5. J.T. the L.A. Storyteller

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I was born and raised in central Los Angeles. I discuss intersections of race, gentrification, small business, City and County elections, and more of what's shaping my Pueblito today. I publish episodes every other Friday; for the full catalogue, visit jimbotimes.com.MORE Host Jimmy Recinos
Producer/Network JIMBO TIMES
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Estimated Monthly Listeners 1k-10k
Recent Guest David Cowen
Apple Rating 4.9/5Apple Reviews 31Facebook 620Instagram 1.9K Avg Length 41 min Format Long form Video Podcast YouTube
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