gentrification

Seeing firsthand how gentrification and rapidly rising housing costs have started to negatively affect the mostly blue-collar town, Bernthal set out to give back.

The reasons for the fall in numbers are multiple - falling birth rates, Brexit, gentrification and the cost of living in London are all contributing factors.

Situated near the northeast corner of 3rd and Main streets, the bar and its neighbors have not experienced the same level of gentrification as other parts of downtown.

A confluence of gentrification and changing social attitudes towards queer people in post-war society fractured the city’s physical queer community north across neighborhoods like Old Town and Lincoln Park.

Townsend’s subversiveness serves a purpose; he is making an artistic comment on gentrification and urban renovation in Providence as well as capitalism and the unrealistic/unattainable fantasies of consumerism.