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- Markey- gotham gazette staff writer - Jun 22, 2009
- SMITH - Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York . – 1996
Gentrification Disad ShellA. Uniqueness and Link- The credit Crunch has slowed the rate of gentrification, but developers are trying to take advantage of low house prices to start it up again – The plans expansion of mobile section 8 vouchers breaks down a key barrier to this gentrification, allow developers to move poor people out Eileen Markey- gotham gazette staff writer - Jun 22, 2009- Foreclosure Threat Looms over Thousands of City Apartments- Online- http://www.gothamgazette.com/print/2945 A spokesman for Urban America declined to discuss specifics of the firm's financial record. Doug Eisenberg, chief operating officer of Urban America said in a statement that his company is in no danger of defaulting. "The properties are healthy, we never take on debt beyond our means, and we are continuing to invest in these properties. Nor are we in the business of pushing out our residents. We are committed to these buildings for the long-term, as we are to long-term residents," he said. The private equity firms invested in the buildings because they thought the apartments were undervalued. In rapidly gentrifying Harlem and elsewhere, the new landlords thought they could command market rents. When his building left Mitchell Lama in 2005, Claude Johnson, a retired building maintenance man who lives at 3333 Broadway, saw rent on his one bedroom increase from $800 to $1,390. Tenants and their advocates began to talk about gentrification, about working class tenants being pushed out, about the erosion of affordable housing. Responding to cries of forced gentrification from voters in Harlem, Bushwick, Washington Heights and elsewhere, the City Council passed an anti-tenant harassment law. At the May 28 rally, State Sen. Bill Perkins of Harlem noted the irony of Schomberg Plaza being renamed The Heritage at a time when the historically African American neighborhood was becoming whiter – and wealthier. "We have seen the worst of times and we are not leaving when the good times come. These landlords are in the process of disappearing us. We will not be disappeared," he said. But now that the boom has collapsed, the problem is a few degrees more complicated. The new private equity owners couldn't actually make huge returns on the buildings, Levy argues. It might be possible to harass a few Section 8 and rent-regulated tenants into leaving and convert their apartments into high rent spaces, Levy said a few months ago. "But these new owners can't actually get rid of everyone. There are layers and layers of subsidies that keep the buildings in these programs," she said. "Thank God for that. We don't want people priced out of their homes. But it means there is no way for these buildings to perform financially."
NEIL SMITH- Professor of Anthropology and Geography at the City University of New York. – 1996- THE NEW URBAN FRONTIER Gentrification and the revanchist city- Page- 26-27 Immigrants come to the city from every country where US capital has opened markets, disrupted local economies, extracted resources, removed people from the land, or sent the marines as a “peace-keeping force” (Sassen 1988). This global dislocation comes home to roost in the “Third-Worlding” of the US city (Franco 1985; Koptiuch 1991), which, combined with the threat of increasing crime and repressive policing of the streets, invites visions of a predaceous assault on the very gentrification that it helped to stimulate. In her research on the disruption of the ways in which children are socialized, Cindi Katz (1991a, 1991b) finds a clear parallel between the streets of New York and the fields of Sudan where an agricultural project has come to town. The “primitive” conditions of the core are at once exported to the periphery while those of the periphery are reestablished at the core. “As if straight out of some sci-fi plot,” writes Koptiuch (1991), “the wild frontiers dramatized in early travel accounts have been moved so far out and away that, to our unprepared astonishment, they have imploded right back in our midst.” It is not just the Indian wars of the Old West that have come home to the cities of the East, but the new global wars of the New American World Order. A new social geography of the city is being born but it would be foolish to expect that it will be a peaceful process. The attempt to reclaim Washington, DC (probably the most segregated city in the US), through white gentrification is widely known by the African- American majority as “the Plan.” In London’s gentrifying Docklands and East End, an anarchist gang of unemployed working-class kids justify mugging as their “yuppie tax,” giving a British twist to the Tompkins Square slogan, “Mug a yuppie.” As homes and communities are converted into a new frontier, there is an often clear perception of what is coming as the wagons are circled around. Frontier violence comes with cavalry charges down city streets, rising official crime rates, police racism and assaults on the “natives.” And it comes with the periodic torching of homeless people as they sleep, presumably to get them “out of sight.” And it comes with the murder of Bruce Bailey, a Manhattan tenant activist, in 1989: his dismembered body was found in garbage bags in the Bronx, and, although police openly suspected angry landlords of the crime, no one was ever charged. It is difficult to be optimistic that the next wave of gentrification will bring a new urban order more civilized than the first. Directory: file -> view view -> Western Europe after wwii view -> Author study: paul fleischman view -> Qpa1 7ela study Guide view -> Arctic Oil/Gas Neg view -> November 1970 Approximately 150,000-500,000 deaths Bhola Cyclone Bangladesh view -> Grade Level: 6 Unit of Study: Caribbean glce view -> Citation: Duffield, Katy view -> Table of Contents Lesson # view -> Chinese Wind Energy Disad Download 350.73 Kb. Share with your friends:
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