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 D.C.'s Uline Arena – once a trash transfer station, now an indoor parking lot American cities have been on the rebound for about two decades now, with once moribund residential and commercial neighborhoods springing back to life. Continue reading Cities, Zoning, and Industry September 30th, 2011 | Tags: gentrification | Category: byline=Stephen Smith, D.C., industry | Comments are closed |
 printable viewLydia DePillis wrote the Washington City Paper’s cover story on the case for Congress overturning DC’s height limit, which should be very familiar to readers of this blog. It’s got some interesting history in it (DC’s height limit was apparently influenced by George Washington’s personal aesthetics, despite the fact that he never governed [...] December 16th, 2010 | Tags: dc, density, gentrification, height restriction, race issues | Category: Uncategorized | 9 comments |
printable viewApologies to everyone for the light posting – over the next few weeks I may be a bit busy with job and internship applications (any suggestions for work or job offers would be very much appreciated!), but hopefully I’ll still be able to put up a few posts a week. But for now, [...] November 2nd, 2010 | Tags: conservatism, disability, gentrification, Los Angeles, North Korea, nyc, parking, pedicabs, portland, Randal O'Toole, Southeast Asia, transit-oriented development, Vancouver | Category: Uncategorized | 3 comments |
printable viewLoyal 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 [...] May 30th, 2008 | Tags: gentrification, portland | Category: Uncategorized | Leave a comment |
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, [...] 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 | Leave a comment |
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 [...] 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 | Leave a comment |
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 [...] May 9th, 2008 | Tags: apartments, gentrification, housing, new york times, nyc, rent control, rent stabilization, rent-regulated | Category: rent control | 4 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 [...] May 7th, 2008 | Tags: affordable housing, gentrification, LA | Category: housing | 4 comments |
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