Carol N Brown, ‘A Civil Rights Defense of Gentrification’, 97 Temple Law Review 1 (2025). Gentrification occupies an uneasy place in property scholarship. It is often invoked as evidence of property’s distributive failures: market allocation displaces vulnerable residents, concentrates capital, and entrenches inequality. In ‘A Civil Rights Defense of Gentrification’, Professor Carol Brown challenges this dominant narrative. Rather than treating gentrification as a phenomenon inherently at odds with civil rights, Brown argues that it can, under the right legal conditions, advance core commitments of the Fair Housing Act and the broader project of residential integration. The article’s central contribution lies in its dual task of challenging prevailing assumptions and constructively reimagining legal strategies … (more)
[Rosa Newman, JOTWELL, 17 June 2026]
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