New Orleans Recently I listened to an interview with a prominent local developer on WAMF in New Orleans as he was asked about gentrification. He tried to walk the line between his self-interest and progressive values. He was against displacement on one hand, but he opposed inclusionary zoning that would require developers to create affordable …
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Street Level Provides a Different View of Atlanta Gentrification
Atlanta Visiting families involved with contract for deed agreements with big companies like Harbour Portfolio Advisers, Vision Property Management, and SG Capital in Atlanta turns out to be a much, much different experience than similar doors I’ve hit in recent months in Pittsburgh, Akron, Youngstown, and Detroit. The song is still basically the same, but …
Banks Creating Housing Squeeze Even More than Gentrification
New Orleans It seems like it has taken forever, but the first units of affordable housing as part of the victorious, but controversial, agreement negotiated between ACORN and Forest City Ratner to be built as part of the Atlantic Yards project, are finally coming to fruition, better late than never, thanks to the 2007-8 housing …