Part 1 focuses on how artists and organizers contend with forces of gentrification and displacement by engaging in strategies that nurture nonextractive relationships with their communities and make visible the overlapping histories of people and places. Contributions highlight dystopian musings on the rapid gentrification of the San Francisco Bay Area; Detroit organizing models for creating community benefit; economic disinvestment and its affect on food access; disability justice and belonging; the relationship between artistic practice and justice movement work; Black underground networks; Indigenous self-reflection through rap; racial inequities in classical music; the power of art during times of social and environmental unrest and instability; celebratory collective memory of LGBTQ+ belonging and resistance; and the intersecting community histories of Los Angeles's Little Tokyo neighborhood.