Gentrification, Displacement, and Alternative Futures

Erualdo González Romero is Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at California State University, Fullerton. He is a critical urbanist and ethnic studies scholar, and in his work, he focuses on gentrification, neighborhood planning, urban health, and governance and public policy, with an emphasis on Mexican immigrants and communities of color. Dr. González is the author of Latino City: Urban Planning, Politics, and the Grassroots. Michelle E. ZunÞiga is Assistant Professor in Urban and Community Planning at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her research focuses on resident perspectives and experiences of neighborhood change in predominately Latinx communities undergoing increased investment. Ashley C. Hernandez is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Urban Planning and Public Policy at the University of California, Irvine, where she studies and teaches on urban governance and inequality, race, and social movements. Her research investigates anti-gentrification activism and community-based organizations in East Los Angeles and beyond. Rodolfo D. Torres is Professor Emeritus of Urban Planning at the University of California, Irvine. He is co-author of The Latino Question: Politics, Laboring Classes, and the Next Left and co-author of Capitalism and Critique: Unruly Democracy and Solidarity Economics, among many other books.