POL SCI 179 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Forest City Enterprises, Community Development Corporation, Public Land
14 Apr 2016
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The urban struggle for economic, environmental and social justice: Professor malo hutson, department of city and regional planning. Resistance to gentrification: look at how people are trying to survive, understand how the government is being held accountable. Mother made choice to move inland where there are better schools: suburban poverty: people move to suburbs, poor but invisible. Boston, ny brooklyn, dc, sf metropolitan, strong in some aspect biotechnology, jobs, have experienced suburban poverty: look at educational status and housing crisis, what was the resistance happening at the local level. Process where affluent population move into areas of less affluence that results in increased prices for goods, services and housing and transforms local cultural institutions and neighborhood identity. May lead to (1) voluntary displacement or (2) involuntary displacement. 2002-2012, rents increased by 75%, real income decreased, gained most mid and high-income homes. 2000-2013 estimated that 30% of new york city census is gentrified.
