What is the Anti Gentrification Project?

We start by assuming that gentrification is a challenging beast to confront and to tackle. As students at a wealthy university, in a new town, seeking new communities of peers, how can we not gentrify? Yes, but we also believe that we can ‘anti-gentrify.’ Rather than displace long time residents, and create new concentrations of cultural and economic power, we believe there are steps that students can take to integrate into new communities, to disperse cultural capital, and combat our landlords’ gentrifying practices. Instead of workshops, we organise neighbourhood walking tours. Jump in at antigentrification@gmail.com