{"id":18813,"date":"2020-12-22T10:49:20","date_gmt":"2020-12-22T15:49:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/?p=18813"},"modified":"2021-06-03T14:53:38","modified_gmt":"2021-06-03T18:53:38","slug":"student-film-explores-climate-gentrification-threat-history-of-redlining-in-asbury-parks-west-side","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2020\/12\/22\/student-film-explores-climate-gentrification-threat-history-of-redlining-in-asbury-parks-west-side\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Film Explores Climate Gentrification Threat, History of Redlining in Asbury Park\u2019s West Side"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"videoWrapper\">\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Video: Keep the Culture, Change the Fate: A Short Film by London Jones\" loading=\"lazy\"  style='width: 500px; height: 281px;' src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m7TLr8g-N34?feature=oembed&#038;rel=0&#038;rel=0\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>A short documentary created by Monmouth University student London Jones examines the possibility that economic pressures caused by factors such as sea level rise and increased coastal flooding could one day push minorities from Asbury Park\u2019s West Side community through a process known as climate gentrification.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_17823\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17823\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-17823 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of London Jones\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-769x1024.jpg 769w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-768x1022.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-1154x1536.jpg 1154w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-1539x2048.jpg 1539w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-1120x1491.jpg 1120w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-560x745.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-280x373.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-320x426.jpg 320w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-640x852.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-1400x1863.jpg 1400w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-1024x1363.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-360x479.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-1503x2000.jpg 1503w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones-113x150.jpg 113w, https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/58\/2020\/09\/London_Jones.jpg 2320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-17823\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">London Jones<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The film includes interviews with Monmouth University professors Melissa Alvar\u00e9, who discussed climate gentrification\u2019s impacts around the country, and Walter Greason, who provided historical context on how \u201credlining\u201d once shaped the West Side and left it particularly vulnerable today. According to Greason, the now illegal practice of redlining began in the 1930s and involved lenders grading neighborhoods based on racial composition, thereby depressing property values and investment in places like the West Side. However, Jones notes that as climate change makes today\u2019s more affluent beachfront areas less desirable, residents could retreat inland and displace residents in areas like the West Side.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, the West Side still houses the majority of Asbury Park\u2019s minority communities and is characterized as a lower-income community compared to the east,\u201d Jones observed in the film. \u201cThis financial reality disproportionately burdens its members when disasters occur, or in this case, climate change-induced sea level rise. While the West Side\u2019s current residents &#8212; some whose families have resided there for the past 100 years &#8212; may not be concerned with sea level rise ruining their legacies and livelihoods, they might be when it washes away any hope of passing that part of town down to their future generations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The video, \u201cKeep the Culture, Change the Fate: Responding to the Threat of Climate Gentrification to Asbury Park\u2019s West Side,\u201d was produced as an honors credit project in Jones\u2019 Climate Change and the Voiceless course, taught by Rechnitz Family\/Urban Coast Institute (UCI) Endowed Chair in Marine and Environmental Law and Policy Randall Abate. The project builds on her UCI-supported summer research work examining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/uci\/2020\/09\/22\/student-papers-examine-discriminatory-barriers-to-beach-access-climate-threats-to-right-whales\/\">discriminatory barriers to beach access<\/a> in Asbury Park and other New Jersey municipalities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A short documentary created by Monmouth University student London Jones examines the possibility that economic pressures caused by factors such as sea level rise and increased coastal flooding could one day push minorities from Asbury Park\u2019s West Side community through a process known as climate gentrification. 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