RE: Evolution or gentrification: Do urban farms lead to higher rents?
October 23, 2012 at 11:40 pm
(This post was last modified: October 23, 2012 at 11:44 pm by cratehorus.)
short answer: No, urban farming does not cause high rent
When talking about small programs like these in undeveloped, mid-sized citites, you have to take into effect what resource created the original development, and whether or not it still exists. Fortunately we are talking about detroit so it's fairly obvious with the failing auto industry..........detroit is fucked.............. the story in that article is rare............ cities like new york, san fransisco, and chicago should be establishing rent control programs, it works in most big cities, but won't work in Detroit since most people are looking to get out of detroit as soon as possible.
Gentrification is really only a problem in developing cities and Detroit is the last city in America that needs to worry about it. It's not ALWAYS racial more often than not it's used to destroy cultural neighborhoods, like a chinatown or, a little Italy, when real estate developers, take advatage of the years of development the poor in that neighborhood have done to improve and devolop it, to only destroy their homes, and build a million dollar complex
I also don't like the reference to brooklyn, they have always had a strong russian and eastern european community and have only recently been strangely stereotyped, in hollywood movies as being an all black neighborhood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNiLV1kP1xI
When talking about small programs like these in undeveloped, mid-sized citites, you have to take into effect what resource created the original development, and whether or not it still exists. Fortunately we are talking about detroit so it's fairly obvious with the failing auto industry..........detroit is fucked.............. the story in that article is rare............ cities like new york, san fransisco, and chicago should be establishing rent control programs, it works in most big cities, but won't work in Detroit since most people are looking to get out of detroit as soon as possible.
Gentrification is really only a problem in developing cities and Detroit is the last city in America that needs to worry about it. It's not ALWAYS racial more often than not it's used to destroy cultural neighborhoods, like a chinatown or, a little Italy, when real estate developers, take advatage of the years of development the poor in that neighborhood have done to improve and devolop it, to only destroy their homes, and build a million dollar complex
I also don't like the reference to brooklyn, they have always had a strong russian and eastern european community and have only recently been strangely stereotyped, in hollywood movies as being an all black neighborhood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNiLV1kP1xI
