Frankfurt Spending some time walking around Rodelheim, a working-class neighborhood in Frankfurt, with tenant activists was an on the ground master’s course in tenant rights and landlord power in Germany. The area is not gentrified exactly, but it is easy to see new developments coming in that could tip the scales dramatically. Having just looked …
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Blocking Renovictions: A New Anti-Gentrification Tool
https://chieforganizer.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/02/Lost-Leaders-01-Extra-Ordinary-200013687.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: Apple PodcastsFrankfurt New West, a low-and-moderate income family suburb abutting Vancouver, British Columbia, is becoming ground zero for new policies to prevent gentrification and displacement in Canada, and perhaps globally with the passage of its latest city bylaw. With housing prices averaging over $1 million in Vancouver every …
Steps to Take in Fighting Gentrification
New Orleans Talking to Randy Shaw, tenant organizer and lawyer with the Tenderloin Housing Clinic in San Francisco, on Wade’s World about his new book, Generation Priced Out, he mentioned several steps that are worth research and action in cities everywhere facing gentrification. In fact, he emphasized several times that one of the things that …