Pushed out: displacement

Our neighborhoods priced out, cut by highways and flipped. 12 points on the WW9 Atlas, oldest first, each with its source.

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• Tampa: Central Avenue and The Scrub1960–1970 · Central Avenue and The Scrub, TampaCentral Avenue, the center of Black life in Tampa, and The Scrub, once the city's largest Black neighborhood, are cut apart by I-275 by the 1960s; the Scrub's ground is now the housing authority's Encore development.WTSP (https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/legacy-of-tampas-lost-neighborhoods-endure/67-ceffa6ac-0a07-446e-9f38-8737cf6db04b); City of Tampa SoulWalk (https://www.tampa.gov/soulwalk/historic-markers/scrub)
• Tampa: Dobyville1960–1975 · Dobyville / West Hyde Park, TampaDobyville, a Black community where West Hyde Park now sits, is erased by development and the Crosstown Expressway by the 1970s.WTSP (https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/legacy-of-tampas-lost-neighborhoods-endure/67-ceffa6ac-0a07-446e-9f38-8737cf6db04b)
• Atlanta: second for Black neighborhoods flipped1980–2020 · Atlanta, GeorgiaNCRC's 2025 report Displaced By Design estimates Atlanta lost about 22,000 Black residents from gentrifying neighborhoods between 1980 and 2020, fifth among metros, and ranks it second for neighborhoods that went from majority-Black to majority-white.Fox 5 Atlanta (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/report-atlanta-among-cities-hardest-hit-gentrification-black-displacement); NCRC (https://ncrc.org/displaced-by-design/)
• New Orleans: among the hardest hit1980–2020 · New Orleans, LouisianaNCRC's 2025 report names New Orleans among the metros where majority-Black neighborhoods were most affected by gentrification, 1980-2020.NCRC (https://ncrc.org/in-the-past-50-years-weve-lost-more-than-150-majority-black-neighborhoods/)
• New York: among the hardest hit1980–2020 · Harlem, New York CityNCRC's 2025 report names New York among the metros where majority-Black neighborhoods were most affected by gentrification, 1980-2020.NCRC (https://ncrc.org/in-the-past-50-years-weve-lost-more-than-150-majority-black-neighborhoods/)
• Philadelphia: among the hardest hit1980–2020 · Philadelphia, PennsylvaniaNCRC's 2025 report names Philadelphia among the metros where majority-Black neighborhoods were most affected by gentrification, 1980-2020.NCRC (https://ncrc.org/in-the-past-50-years-weve-lost-more-than-150-majority-black-neighborhoods/); VISTA Today (https://vista.today/2025/05/displaced-by-design-gentrification-report/)
• The Bay Area: among the hardest hit1980–2020 · West Oakland, CaliforniaNCRC's 2025 report names the San Francisco Bay Area among the metros where majority-Black neighborhoods were most affected by gentrification, 1980-2020.NCRC (https://ncrc.org/in-the-past-50-years-weve-lost-more-than-150-majority-black-neighborhoods/)
• The national count: 500+ Black neighborhoods gentrified1980–2020 · Washington, D.C. (national)NCRC 2025: from 1980 to 2020, 523 majority-Black neighborhoods gentrified and 155 went through full racial turnover; about 261,000 fewer Black residents live in those neighborhoods. NCRC's 2019 study counted 110,935 Black residents displaced in 2000-2010 alone.NCRC (https://ncrc.org/in-the-past-50-years-weve-lost-more-than-150-majority-black-neighborhoods/); Fox 5 Atlanta (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/report-atlanta-among-cities-hardest-hit-gentrification-black-displacement)
• D.C.: the most intense displacement in the country2000–2020 · Washington, D.C.NCRC's 2019 study finds D.C. had the most intense gentrification of any U.S. city, with about 20,000 Black residents displaced between 2000 and 2010. Its 2025 report finds D.C. had the highest racial turnover of majority-Black neighborhoods from 1980 to 2020. Chocolate City is no longer majority BlaNCRC via Nonprofit Quarterly (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/study-provides-a-map-of-gentrification-and-resident-displacement-nationwide/); Fox 5 Atlanta on NCRC 2025 (https://www.fox5atlanta.com/news/report-atlanta-among-cities-hardest-hit-gentrification-black-displacement)
• Portland's Albina2000–2010 · Albina, Portland, OregonNCRC finds about 13% of Portland's Black community was displaced between 2000 and 2010, centered on Albina in North and Northeast Portland.NCRC via Nonprofit Quarterly (https://nonprofitquarterly.org/study-provides-a-map-of-gentrification-and-resident-displacement-nationwide/)
• Tampa Heights: resisting displacement2000–2026 · Tampa Heights, TampaTampa Heights, a historic African American suburb, faces rising prices and new development; residents use arts and culture to hold their ground.Smart Growth America (https://smartgrowthamerica.org/tampa-heights-florida-arts-and-culture-as-celebration-and-resistance-against-displacement-in-an-historic-african-american-suburb); ABC Action News (https://abcactionnews.com/news/local-news/tampa-neighbors-battle-gentrification-amid-rapid-development)
• Little Haiti: climate gentrification2010–2026 · Little Haiti, MiamiLittle Haiti sits on some of Miami's highest ground. As seas rise, developers and buyers move inland onto it, including the Magic City project, and longtime Haitian and Black residents fear being priced out.WLRN (https://www.wlrn.org/post/seas-rise-miami-s-black-communities-fear-displacement-high-ground); NBC (https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/business/money-report/climate-change-is-gentrifying-neighborhoods-in-miami-residents-fear-high-prices-and-a-lost-soul/3470603)