GUDL Awards Third Pilot Partnership Seed Grant Between Boston University and Lowell Community Organizations
The Boston University Initiative on Cities Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL) is proud to announce the third recipient of our pilot partnership seed grant program. This award supports a collaboration between Lowell Alliance, the Merrimack Valley Project, and Yeşim Sungu-Eryilmaz, Assistant Professor and Director of the Boston University Metropolitan College City Planning & Urban […]
GUDL Awards Second Pilot Partnership Seed Grant to Tufts University and the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Housing
The Boston University Initiative on Cities Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL) is proud to announce the second recipient of our pilot partnership seed grant: a collaboration between the City of Boston Mayor’s Office of Housing (MOH) and Shomon Shamsuddin, Associate Professor in the Department of Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning (UEP) at Tufts […]
Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL) Awards First Community-Centered Collaborative Pilot Partnership Seed Grant
[BOSTON, MA] May 19, 2026 — The Boston University Initiative on Cities Gentrification & Urban Displacement Lab (GUDL) is proud to announce the recipients of our first pilot partnership seed grant between the City of Cambridge Redevelopment Authority (CRA), City of Cambridge Economic Opportunity and Development Division (EODD), and the Small Business Anti-Displacement Network (SBAN). […]
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The right to community: legal geographies of resistance on London’s final gentrification frontier
By Phil Hubbard and Loretta Lees in City
Resisting Gentrification on Its Final Frontiers: Lessons from the Heygate Estate in London (1974-2013)
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Resisting ‘Austerity Gentrification’ and Displacement in Southern Europe
By Sandra Annunziata and Loretta Lees in Sociological Research Online