Loyal reader, Bill tipped me off to this blog and I’ve subscribed to the feed ever since. Today’s post was particularly relevant:
White People in the News – May 30, 2008
Isn’t this photo classic?
The comments on the blog are always fun to read too…
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May 30th, 2008 | Tags: gentrification, portland | Category: Uncategorized | Comments |
 printable viewPart One of this series was a refresher on the Microeconomics of Rent Control and touched on how it encourages hoarding Part Two discussed rent controls influence on the black market for apartments, rental property deterioration and housing discrimination. Here in Part Three, we will discuss how rent control hampers mobility, regional growth, tax revenue, [...] May 28th, 2008 | Tags: affordable housing, class conflict, development, discrimination, Economics, employment, Free-market, gentrification, housing, landlord, mobility, nyc, peter cooper village, regional growth, rent, rent control, rent stabilization, rent-regulated, segregation, stuyvesant town, taxes, tenant, Walter Block | Category: rent control | Comments |
printable viewphoto by flickr user paytonc The National Trust for Historic Preservation announced that New York City’s Lower East Side, famous for it’s history of tenements and slums, is one of 11 architectural, cultural, and natural heritage sites that are most at risk “for destruction or irreparable damage.” By “damage”, they mean new luxury towers [...] May 21st, 2008 | Tags: downzoning, gentrification, Historic, historic landmark, landmark, lower east side, national trust for historic preservation, neighborhood, nyc, slums, tenements, zoning | Category: zoning | Comments |
printable viewCurbed: Rent-Stabilzation War: Tenants Strike Back New York Times: Questions of Rent Tactics by Private Equity Rent-regulated apartments account for 57 percent of the total in the Bronx, 42 percent of the apartments in Brooklyn, 59 percent in Manhattan, 43 percent in Queens and 15 percent of those on Staten Island, the Guidelines Board says. There’s a long [...] May 9th, 2008 | Tags: apartments, gentrification, housing, new york times, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization, rent-regulated | Category: rent control | Comments |
printable viewLA Times: Los Angeles limits ‘mansionization,’ downtown hotel conversions Reason: In Soviet Los Angeles, Housing Affordables You! LA’s City Council voted unanimously to treat the symptoms of the City’s gentrification problem by restricting property owner’s right to improve their property. Did anyone ask the council what would be the long-term effects of restricting the supply of [...] May 7th, 2008 | Tags: affordable housing, gentrification, LA | Category: housing | Comments |
printable viewLimousine Liberals aren’t the only ones who oppose change. In Harlem, neighbors fought to keep new people out of their neighborhood, and want to force gentrification upon other neighborhoods. In the process they created such a stir at Wednesday’s Council session, they had to be cleared out. It’s such a strange phenomenon: progressives who act conservative; [...] May 1st, 2008 | Tags: 125th street rezoning, gentrification, Harlem, neighborhood, NIMBY, nyc, rezoning, zoning | Category: zoning | Comments |
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