Displacement

New Report Shows Gentrification Isn't Significant Problem

1 July 2008 - 2:00pm
Time
A new study conducted by University of Colorado at Boulder, University of Pittsburgh and Duke University says that the scourge of gentrification is greatly exaggerated.

Evicted Residents Want Their History Portrayed Accurately

25 June 2008 - 10:00am
Knoxville News Sentinel
Kentucky and Tennessee residents who were evicted in the 1960s to make way for a nature preserve are fighting to make sure their history is accurately represented in historical markers and visitor centers at the site.

Turkey Hopes Planned Dam Generates More Than Electricity

28 May 2008 - 6:00am
The Christian Science Monitor
Plans to build a massive dam in Turkey have many hopeful that its creation will revive the local economy.

'They Want to Make a Dam, and Now They Know They Shouldn't'

23 May 2008 - 8:00am
Associated Press via National Geographic
A group of Indians from the Amazon attacked a government engineer at a recent meeting where he was discussing a proposed hydroelectric dam on the Xingu River that could displace 15,000 indigenous people and destroy traditional fishing grounds.
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