#Gentrification

getting used to the new normal

dfergusson

The well-researched, nuanced, and insightful critiques of the blunt-force Bogotá-style “ban cars” pieces are making a lot of urbanists feel defensive, and I think there’s a few reasons why: 1)

Alfred Twu

alfred_twu

For half the cost of a new @SFBART tube (which only adds room for 50,000 workers during rush hour), we could build publicly owned office towers in the East Bay,

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TheSydneyA

Bernie Sanders made shit extremely hard for Democrats these past four years while doing absolutely jack shit to help stop Trump and the Republicans from eroding. He is the rease

Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Center4NewEcon

ICYMI 2020: Land EditionFollow along this thread for a list of stories from 2020 covering #landinequity, the housing crisis, and the forces working to address both.And reply with your own

Repositioning Play

GoodGuyGuaranty

In all of the discourse over white-collar people leaving NYC, it’s important to remember that the working class can leave as well.When I did BBBS, my ‘little’ lived in the

Noah Smith 🐇

Noahpinion

1/OK, so. Let's talk about Left-NIMBYism. We all know about Right-NIMBYs, rabidly protecting their white-flight suburbs from Those People. And there are plenty of liberal NIMBYs too. But NIMBYs of

🏳️‍🌈 Lori Droste

loridroste

As the councilmember who represents the birthplace of racist exclusionary zoning laws, it is my great pleasure to announce that my colleagues @TaplinTerry, @benbartlettberk, @RigelRobinson & I are introducing a

Gretchen Koch

GretchenKoch

Okay, just for fun, let's take a crack at explaining these supposed contradictions John McWhorter claims typify "third wave" antiracism and thereby invalidate it.https://www.persuasion.community/p/john-mcwhorter-the-neoracists

Street Watch LA

StreetWatchLA

Last night, @TheoHen95302259, a Black unhoused man, was silenced by the "Friends of Echo Park Lake", an astroturf group of white property owners who are working closely w @MitchOFarrell +

Jobs to Move America

JobsMoveAmerica

THREAD: The #BlackLivesMatter movement is spurring us to reimagine a racially just society. Here's how #DefundThePolice could fund the public goods that build healthy communities -- and create thousands

Lim Jialiang

lim_jialiang

So I caused a bit of a kerfuffle today with the peranakan Nasi Lemak post about the Lemak Boys (disputed). One of the more recent trends over the past few

Marina Starleaf Riker

marinastarleaf

ICYMI, yesterday in print: How the San Antonio Housing Authority's new interim leader @SAHA_CEO is bucking a 30-year trend toward privatizing development by pledging to rebuild the city's oldest and

USA TODAY

USATODAY

Tamir Rice would have been celebrating his 18th birthday this week. We talked to 31 male teens turning 18 this year about growing up Black in America. Here’s what some

Tony Choi

tonykchoi

I think about the yuppie 2nd gen-type Asian Americans who are driving the current conversation on the violent attacks on our elders who are on the side of developers in

#ENDSARS

punkistani93

Removing the cottage on #BritanniaPark site to Saint Fagans museum isn't the way forward. We can't just keep gentrifying Cardiff and putting working class heritage in a peoples' history museum

🌬Mistress Snow, PhD

MistressSnowPhD

It’s my one-year Anneiversary!If I’ve learned anything over the past year, it’s that, by and large, academia is the same old dogshit disaster it always was & immeasurably worse than

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