Status Updates From Defying Displacement: Urban...

6 pages in and loving it so far.

“the scope of the anti-gentrifying struggle is reduced to the moral turpitude within a new resident’s soul. and all the while, business districts are planned, tax abatements unveiled, redevelopment schemes dreamed up, corporate and university campuses expanded, neighborhoods transformed, and communities destroyed.” — so many thoughts but so little characters left.

the organization of this book is very effective & the recency of the examples used is ever important. internationally, gentrification gets written off too easily in modern liberalism because of a lack of attention to its actual consequences and causes. Lee’s analyses are well informed and are easily applicable to what any reader can see in their own cities—for me, Austin and Dallas