Gentrification in East Austin
Progress or Displacement?
Presented by:
Mike Andrick, Pat Ouedraogo, Alejandro
Garcia, Derek Hardin, Rebecca Brisco-
Rhone, Naomi Brisco-Rhone

Find the
Lofts/Houses/Condos/Businesses http://maps.google.com/maps?q=Austin,+TX

1.

History and Austin City Plan
• Wesley
Methodic
Church founded in
1895.First
African -
American
Church
• Holly power plant built in 1960

Austin City Present Map
• Majority in East
Austin are African
Americans and
Hispanics
• Fast growth combined with a history of segregation
• White city planners pushed them off
Valuable downtown areas

Preservation District Map
Alternative solution to displacement suggested: Land
Trusts in preservation district

Where is the connection?
Deep-rooted communities are poor: There is a threat of rising prices and real estate agents made them their primary target

History of cohabitation vs.
History of urban planning
• Urban design and planning has little to do with race, but urban areas are designed for different ethnic groups to live in.
• Whether Those different groups should cohabit or be separated is another issue urban cities should consider

Pictures/interviews

Dissimilarity index

New clientele
• Advantages, disadvantages?
• Interviews and pictures

Business Reaction
• Ray Dell Galloway (interview)
Ideal Barber Shop -Galloway Sub
Shop (
1914 E 12th St, Austin )
• “crime has always been an issue for this community but as an area lightens up more attention is paid to solving the problems…”
•
Rosewood Merchant Association
He wants change for his community but is the change really for HIS community?

• Ben BBQ
“”
Ben’s BBQ

Claiming Culture?
• “Puerto-Ricanizing” (spelling??)
Reading about gentrification in Chicago
•
Austin Forth Friday
– Is this cultural claiming?
– Who is participating?
•
Houston Tillitson University
• M urals/ Restaurants, Marches
• NAACP
•
Evidence of helping each other
(Anderson Home Organization)
 stable, effective community www

Businesses  the new vs. old
• Why the new appeal to East Austin?
• What is being advertised? Who is it
Appealing to?
-
Big Red Sun, Dandelion café, East Side
Café, French History legation
Museum (why not the Carver Cultural
Center and HT?)
•
African-American cliental is being pushed out but return to go to local restaurants and businesses…does that testify to the presence of a cohesive community?

Church example- Wesley United
Methodist Church

City plan-stats, map

Pictures of old house and new house

Lofts

Picture of lofts- comparison
• East vs. downtown

Cultural changes

• Maps of city plan future

• Interviews from the east side

• Revitalization vs. Gentrification
• definitions

• Our opinions
Conclusions