Wednesday, 15 July 2020

‘Build More Housing’ Is No Match for Inequality

quote [ “The affordability crisis within major urban areas is real,” they write, “but it is due less to over-regulation of housing markets than to the underlying wage and income inequalities, and a sharp increase in the value of central locations within metro areas, as employment and amenities concentrate in these places.” ]

Somehow missed this in posting the urbanism articles. The author notes how reporting on this triggered quite a backlash.

See also an old knumbknutz post and the game system one.
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steele said[1] @ 6:17pm GMT on 15th Jul [Score:1 Informative]
Hmm, it's almost as if centralizing housing into the hands of a few private individuals and then letting them raise their prices as high as they can get away with (even if it means some of their units go unused) creates an artificial inflation in real estate prices overall. Anyways...

Breonna Taylor: Warrant in fatal encounter was linked to gentrification plan, family's lawyers claim - CNN

Episode 85: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part I) — The Infestation Rhetoric of Local News | by Citations Needed

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Adam: As housing costs skyrocket and inequality grows, homelessness is reaching crisis levels in large metro areas. In response, the media — namely local news stations and Fox News — routinely treat the homeless like an invading species, a vermin to at best be contained, and at worst eradicated.

Nima: The result has been a slew of stories pathologizing those experiencing homelessness as uniquely dangerous. Panhandlers are viewed as con men out to screw over the working man, chased down by vigilantes with the help of outraged local news crews “standing up” to the poor. The housing status of those who commit crimes is only mentioned when they’re homeless of course — never for the housed — and every transgression committed by someone who is experiencing homelessness is viewed by our media as evidence that the homeless population in general is just out to attack us all.

Adam: But this narrative flies in the face of the evidence, and tracks — like most quote unquote “crime coverage” — with the needs of real estate interests who set the tone for local media coverage, and who have every reason to highlight and oversell the threat of homelessness to pressure lawmakers and police to displace “eye soars” for their yuppie clientele they’re attempting to sell to and ultimately serve.


Episode 86: Incitement Against the Homeless (Part II) — The Exterminationist Rhetoric of Fox News | by Citations Needed
von_sanchez said @ 2:31am GMT on 16th Jul
Amazes me how the "gentrification plans" pushed by elected officials with ties to property development dovetails with the outsourcing of public housing to private companies run by the same property developers - they recieve state funds for providing the housing service while at the same time undermining the program and reporting it as an efficiency increase.
mechanical contrivance said @ 2:57am GMT on 16th Jul
This is why elected officials should never be allowed to hold public office.
steele said @ 10:45am GMT on 16th Jul
Mao chicka Mao Mao...

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