When #privateEquity and #developers want to engage in #gentrification, are there specific things they do in terms of #harassment to make life more miserable for the #tenants?

A privately-owned #housingTrust have gone from doing an inspection every 3 years to one every 3 months. An extreme increase that seems wholely unjustified.

Is this a yet another hallmark of gentrification alongside "#publicArt" and #coffeeShops?

#housing #workingClass #landlords #overdevelopment

@seankearney@mastodon.social
Extreme levels of #immigration always favours the extremely wealthy.

More local #consumers to sell to and lower wages, its a win-win for the #corporates. In #Australia, we typically had #GerryHarvey, #RealEstate moguls and #BigConstruction, #speculators and #universities pining for extreme numbers of people to be pumped in.

Whether by bombing their country (aka so-called #PushFactors) or #PullFactors like our "WorldClass" #coffeeshops and glass-and-steel living styles.

@marie_joseph@eldritch.cafe
If artwork, made on their dime was *obviously* subversive then yes, salute that.

The problem is it oft isn't.

Corporate-friendly, unquestioning art is oft added to public spaces to boost #realEstate prices in an area. Paired with the emergence of "hip" #coffeeShops, such #publicArt forms part of a sordid process called #gentrification (oft #greenwashed as #regeneration or #urbanRenewal).

Seeing the pattern towards homelessness, some #activists destroy such art.

#overDevelopment