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Jul 2023
53m 28s

Brooklyn's Gentrification Problem

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The number of white Brooklyn residents has increased over the years while Black residents have been displaced. Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show segment producer, Jordana Hemingway and urban planner and Pratt Institute professor, Ronald Shiffman to discuss how gentrification directly impacts the displacement of people and culture, the relationship between gentrification and policing, and how people moving into Brooklyn neighborhoods can be part of responsible change. 

 

Original air date: August 30, 2022

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbkLi2kC5Ig&t=27s 

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