White guilt be gone

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A story I wrote about how gentrification does not drive low-income minorities from their neighborhoods went up on Time.com over the weekend. It starts:

People tend to think gentrification goes like this: rich, educated white people move into a low-income minority neighborhood and drive out its original residents, who can no longer afford to live there. As it turns out, that’s not typically true.

You can read the full article here.

Or, if you’d like to read the study it’s based on, you can go here.

Barbara! (Remember: I’m signing these posts so that when you get your morning e-mail, you know that it’s me writing and not Justin.)