Status Updates From How to Kill a City: Gentrif...

"... gentrification suppresses and displaces memory, and makes it harder to build lasting justice. This ignorance benefits the powerful..."

History matters, folks.

"The only reason landlords buy rent stabilized buildings is because they know in most cases they can get the people out."

Have I mentioned, lately , again, just how horrible most of the human race seems to be?

What?! First of all the idea that there could exist an apartment worth $100 million is mind-boggling to me let alone that it's only taxed as if it were worth three to four million USD, and then , even worse, as if that were possible, of absentee homeownership having grown by 70%; the idea that all of these unbelievably expensive apartments could be just sitting empty is horrendous and sickening.

These tax breaks end up costing the federal government four to five times what it spends on public housing each year home mortgages are still subsidized today via tax deductions that rise with the expense of a new home. Hang on, I knew there was a mortgage deduction obviously because I took it when I own the house, but I didn't realize that that wasn't a flat deduction. So the rich still get richer even when the midd

So that rumor about Robert Moses Building a bridge too low for the buses to pass was true? I didn't realize that.

So the so-called "Ward 9" as we used to call PG county, in the District , was an early sign of what happened later across the country

Section 8 also misses a fundamental problem which is that in both San Diego and Somerville, Massachusetts, in the Boston area, I've seen landlords explicitly reject section 8 applicants.

Yup, redlining, and the FHA mortgage system. But of course, "This is not a racist country."

That's terrible overhead, the state giving away 30 cents on the dollar to private companies. It's also not democratic.

Poor people losing their houses to the conspicuous consumption that props up the gentrifiers... Great.

"... developers reap profit by charging the highest rents they can to poor people and skimping on repairs, milking buildings for all they're worth, and then they benefit from kicking out those residents, making repairs, and charging much more money to new residents."

And they get away with this highway robbery, unfortunately.

I never thought of that , how TFA and habitat actually remove paid teachers and construction workers from a community when those volunteers come in...

Bringing consultants from other areas just like similar to what happened at UDC and now native washingtonians can't get jobs there either

Purpose purposely breached a Levee to save whom? ... just guess...

"...the predictable effects of turning cities into spaces that benefit no one but those who control capital."

Yup.

...she replied, "Thank God for Katrina. That really helped clean this place up."

What?!

"... if we identify those interests, we can begin to reshape cities in our own design. "
Exactly

"Or that the overriding constraints are strong enough to obliterate the individuality implied in consumer preference."
Exactly

"Gentrification cannot happen without this deeply rooted inequality..."

What is a Kickstarter campaign?

This would have been written in 2016, just 10 years ago : $4,000 a month for an apartment in the village in New York city?

unbelievable and heartbreaking