We name what is happening, document it across fourteen places on four continents, and build what comes next.
When higher-income people arrive in large numbers, the housing market reprices to their incomes — not the incomes of the people already there.
It is happening in fourteen places on four continents. The mechanism is the same everywhere. So are the solutions.
We documented it. We built the framework. Now we are building the communities that prove it works.
Each part of the work has its own color. You will see that color again when you arrive in its section — so you always know where you are.
Research
The evidence base. Fourteen case-study geographies, one displacement mechanism, the framework that names it.
Read the research →Community
Resources, guidance, and solidarity for the activists and movements already fighting displacement on the ground.
Join the community →Policy
Translating the research into the laws and protections that interrupt displacement — before a community is repriced, not after.
See the policy work →The Act of Belonging
Housing built to prove the model: development that improves a place without removing the people who made it worth improving.
See the practice →Support the Work
The research, the resources, the policy fight, and the proof of concept are funded by people who believe places should stay home.
Support the work →$4.5 billion
Puerto Rico's own treasury estimates the island will forgo $4.5 billion in revenue to Act 22 incentives between 2020 and 2026.
Puerto Rico Department of Treasury, Tax Expenditure Report for Tax Year 2024. A December 2025 GAO review found the program's overall benefits "mixed."
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No spam. No selling your data. Just the work.
Notice the color. This is the Research section — and the green you saw on the Research card is the green you are standing in now.
Fourteen case-study geographies. One displacement mechanism. A four-stage framework that shows how it unfolds — and where the window to act still exists.
This is the wayfinding idea in action. The Research card on the home page was green. This whole section is green. Every Research page — every paper, every geography deep-dive — carries the same green accent. A visitor never has to wonder which part of the work they are reading. Community will feel like clay-terracotta; Policy like deep teal; The Act of Belonging like bronze; Support like deep navy.