#Gentrification is not an abstract moral failing—It is a result of #money and #power—of the #landlords, #developers, real estate flippers, and #investors who have it, and everyone else who does not. The people who move into those houses have more money than the majority of the people in the city can fathom, and often fight any attempt to #distribute that #wealth more evenly.

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gentrification-rhetorical-weapon-systemic-issue/

#Cities #Urbanism #Gentrification #Housing: "The root of the problem is that housing is treated as an instrument of profit, one in which the exchange value is prioritized over its use value. The sole solution is to decouple housing from profit and make it a human right. The profit motive keeps all but the flippers, private equity firms, and management companies, the developers and landlords and the obscenely wealthy—whose economic freedom is unimpeded—in constant, virulent antagonism.

The cost of housing forces those below a certain income level into peripheries where we become the gentrifier—with the power to gamble on the price of land and permanently alter a community’s social capital. Yes, this feels terrible. Yes, many of us, especially if we have the freedom of movement, are complicit in this process in our own ways. The choice is either to live with this sin-like guilt or to be a neighbor who knows their neighbors and their rights, who deftly avoids the selfish pitfalls of NIMBYism while keeping an eye on the real fight: a high-stakes political battle for increasingly scarce stability, for what was once in more idealistic times called “the right to the city.” It’s true, many of us neighbors are transplants. But no one wants to be a transplant forever."

https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gentrification-rhetorical-weapon-systemic-issue/

"Luxury" housing helps 👉prevent👈 Gentrification. Adding "luxury" housing in a neighborhood is good. 👍
"""The demand for consolidation comes from higher income families who want to live in the city but can’t find units that are large enough to accommodate their needs and income. ... Building more high end housing keeps those with high incomes from moving down market and out-bidding those with less income for the existing housing stock""" #Housing #gentrification
https://cityobservatory.org/gentrification-and-housing-supply/

On #Gentrification, We Don’t Know What We’re Talking About
https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gentrification-rhetorical-weapon-systemic-issue/

#Gentrification in #Soho #London #UK has cost it its unique character - I remember it in the 90s, it was an interesting place but getting more and more commercialised even then, plus locals only voted against the Tories as recently as 2022 and it was still a fairly close result...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-65950134

Non vogliamo nessuna tra le macerie del V ponte!

Case ora!!

#casapertutte #nosgomberi #nogentrificazione #gentrification #nodegrado #ildegradosietevoi #roma #italia #municipio9 #municipioIV #9incammino

https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid037nhMr6rbtMVM9ZMnQ39rZMMEgXgSm5tptpzeVVBSpMVks2yVWVhJzrNta3DYMox7l&id=100001569553247

Mexiko-Stadt: Digitale Nomaden verdrängen Mexikos #Mieter

#Mexiko-Stadt ist zu einer der lebenswertesten Metropolen für wohlhabende Ausländer avanciert. Was die einen freut, bedeutet für andere: #Räumung, #Verdrängung, #Wohnungsnot. Und die Stadtregierung fördert die extreme #Gentrifizierung.

https://www.tagesschau.de/ausland/amerika/mexiko-gentrifizierung-100.html

#MexicoCity #Gentrification

Well, Montréal Centre-ville – an organization that principally serves to drive tourists to restaurants in various parts of downtown #Montréal – has renamed this place, which has been known as Shaughnessy Village for a long time, #Shoni. They have plastered the neighbourhood with this new 5-letter word

Thomas Shaughnessy, who was born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1853, used to live in the house where the Canadian Centre for Architecture is. He was the president of Canadian Pacific and he was made a baron by the British government in 1916. Personally, I don't think we NEED to use this guy's name for our neighbourhood. It is simply the case that this has been the most common name for our neighbourhood for a long time (which is incidentally why I often say things like "Canada" or "America" even though there's a strong case that we should indigenous names for different parts of this continent or the landmass as a whole)

"Shoni" is certainly much easier to spell, to say, and to type, and so that its value – both for the people with Montréal Centre-ville, but potentially for us too

I don't think Montréal Centre-ville's rebranding campaign has been in my best interests as a renter or a resident of the neighbourhood. I am happy for the people at the marketing agency, who need to pay their mortgages or whatever, but I don't necessarily love it when the sidewalks are jampacked with people from other parts of town, or tourists from the United States or whatever, who've come to my neighbourhood to party. The name "Shoni" sounds a lot like #Homa, which is how land speculators and businesspeople rebranded #Hochelaga as part of what a lot of people would call #gentrification

But I'm not scared of a word and I don't think anyone can copyright it. Plus it's short!

Thanks to Rodrigo at Cogitatio for inviting me onto the "Let's Talk About" podcast to talk about my recent article "Radical Solidarities in Punk and Queer Refusals of Safety and Inclusion Narratives in Planning" in Urban Planning journal.

#podcast #OpenAccess #PublicScholarship #punk #Ottawa #SpatialJustice #UrbanPlanning #gentrification #placemaking #MusicCities #CulturalRevitalization

https://www.cogitatiopress.com/wp/lta/safe-spaces-punks-radical-take-on-inclusion

every day workers are increasingly suffering because of the rich

Appalachia’s Gentrification - Clash of Locals & Outsiders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6EEi4tBvek&ab_channel=PeterSantenello

There's tension in the mountains of Appalachia, a divide between established locals and wealthier people moving in to buy up land and homes. This tension exists in many parts of the country and is increasing as more people want to live outside the cities. Join me as we meet the locals to get an inside look on this situation.

#gentrification #USA #suffering #tensions #Appalachia

Insta 2yrs ago: The neverending story. #beachtown #neighborhood #elporto #streetscene #construction #destruction #gentrification #hillside #staysafe #manhattanbeach #notnorth #losangeles #california https://osoporto.com

Tale of the City: Gentrification in London – Part 3 https://unicornriot.ninja/2023/tale-of-the-city-gentrification-in-london-part-3/ #Global #Land_&_Housing #broadwater_farm_riot #Columbian #Community_Benefit_Society #elephant_and_castle #england #Gentrification #Haringey #Latin_American #Latin_Village #london #Mark_Duggan #Save_Latin_Village #Seven_Sisters #southwark #tottenham #Unit38 #United_Kingdom #Wards_Corner #Wards_Corner_Community_Plan #West_Green_Road_and_Seven_Sisters_Development_Tru

What Good Is Eco-Art Without Community? From @hyperallergic
https://hyperallergic.com/840477/what-good-is-eco-art-without-community-creative-time-parallel-walks/

#news #EcologicalArt #NewYork #gentrification #art

Toxic Tour - tour à vélo des lieux impactés par les JO https://paris-luttes.info/toxic-tour-tour-a-velo-des-lieux-17321 #aménageurs-BTP #gentrification-rénovationurbaine #Urbanisme-Transport #Seine-Saint-Denis #Jeuxolympiques #Saccage2024

#BackInTheUSColony

>Gringo Go Home! Puerto Rico Is Not for Sale! https://prospect.org/power/2023-08-21-gringo-go-home-puerto-rico-not-for-sale/

FTA: "These colonizers are not the typical agents of imperialism, who violently strip vulnerable countries of resources and coerce their inhabitants into brutal plantation labor. These are rentier capitalists, who come by the thousands in pursuit of a once-in-a-lifetime profit-making opportunity, at no risk."

#BadEconomy #gentrification #YankeeGoHome #colonialism #imperialism #PuertoRico #MastodonPR

Not too long ago, it was #colonization. Now it's #gentrification!

In #Hawaii, concerns over ‘climate gentrification’ rise after devastating Maui fires

https://apnews.com/article/maui-hawaii-fire-climate-gentrification-housing-displacement-aa827eabef48d2764aa58d01f7a6969c?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

I'm sitting in a tiny local coffee shop that houses another little shop, looking out at our #pedestrianstreet — a rare #carfree space!

Yet all I can think of, in my little paradise in #Montreal, is the lightning-fast #gentrification that brought this borough where it is.

The fact that in another life, if I hadn't broken the cycle, I'd be the one getting #renovicted with nowhere to go. ... And in another decade, maybe I will be.
The fact that #goodurbanism is a privilege.

It's bittersweet.

Part 2 of my x part series detailing my thoughts as I #Travel by #Transit across the #Rustbelt is up!

https://jedsetter.com/travelling-by-transit-across-the-rustbelt-part-2-detroit-to-buffalo/

Check it out.

More hashtags: #Detroit #Buffalo #Amtrak #Greyhound #gentrification #urbanism #PublicTransport

I guess the food trucks on Cook St are not getting many regular local customers these days but getting lots of temporary customers from all the construction workers.

#VictoriaBC #yyj #UnderConstruction #FoodTrucks #Gentrification #MoreUnaffordableHousing

#Gentrification continues.

#VictoriaBC #yyj #UnderConstruction #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNotthwest #architecture #monochrome #BlackAndWhite #building