Radek Simko

“To fight gentrification is to fight American thinking.”
― Peter Moskowitz, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

“Though the governments of Sweden, Hong Kong, and Germany are by no means anticapitalist, they have accepted a truth that few in the United States are willing to grapple with: unregulated capitalism cannot provide a complete solution to the housing question.”
― Peter Moskowitz, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

“But the city began spending on different things, turning away from social programs that help the poor and toward ones that help the rich—namely, subsidizing redevelopment. The near-bankruptcy made New York the first US city to employ gentrification as governance.”
― Peter Moskowitz, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

“Hipsters are fine with coffee but eye boutiques and banks with suspicion, yuppies are fine with the boutiques and banks but see landscapes radically altered by development as cultural losses, and developers such as Pres Kabacoff are fine with those landscapes as long as they don’t inspire protest.”
― Peter Moskowitz, How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood