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Market Urbanism MUsings: Jan 29, 2016

January 29, 2016 By Adam Hengels

[this is a pilot for a regular weekly series rounding-up the week's happenings in the world of Market Urbanism.  I'd love to get your feedback in the comments or contact us directly.  If the response is positive, we'll continue it.]1. Here at Market Urbanism, Scott Beyer wrote about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: MUsings Tagged With: Charlottesville Virginia, gentrification, Miami, San Francisco, seattle

Trickle-Down Housing Economics? Laying Reagan’s Ghost to Rest

August 25, 2015 By Jeff Fong

In a recent 48 Hills post, housing activist Peter Cohen aimed a couple rounds of return fire at SPUR's Gabriel Metcalf. The post comes in response to Mr. Metcalf's own article critiquing progressive housing policy. Mr. Cohen bounces around a bit, but he does repeat some frequently used talking … [Read more...]

Filed Under: housing, planning, Policy, Uncategorized Tagged With: Bay Area, California, debate, gentrification, housing crisis, San Francisco

Market Fundamentalism in the Mission?

June 3, 2015 By Jeff Fong

There’s a proposal to place a moratorium on all market rate construction in the Mission District, one of San Francisco’s most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Needless to say the proposal has sparked a debate. And Dan Ancona’s Putting Market Fundamentalism On Hold is another rock hurled into that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, Policy Tagged With: Displacement, gentrification, Mission District, Moratorium, San Francisco, The Mission

The Right to the City

January 29, 2015 By Jeff Fong

This post draws heavily from Tom W. Bell’s “Want to Own a City?”  and would not have been possible without his prior writing and research The "Right to the City" is an old marxist slogan that’s as catchy as it is ill-defined. Neither the phrase's originator Henri Lefebvre, nor David Harvey, a more … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Law, Uncategorized Tagged With: gentrification, The Right to the City

Only 2 Ways to Fight Gentrification (you’re not going to like one of them)

January 28, 2015 By Adam Hengels

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Gentrification is the result of powerful economic forces. Those who misunderstand the nature of the economic forces at play, risk misdirecting those forces.  Misdirection can exasperate city-wide displacement.  Before discussing solutions to fighting gentrification, it is important to accept that … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, housing, planning, zoning Tagged With: affordable housing, Chicago, class conflict, development, Economics, gentrification, lincoln park, real estate, regulation, Urban Economics

Filtering: Gentrification in Reverse

January 27, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Co-authored with Anthony Ling, editor at Caos PlanejadoGentrification Gentrification is the process through which real estate becomes more valuable and, therefore, more expensive. Rising prices displace older residents in favor of transplants with higher incomes. This shouldn't be confused with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, Gentrification, housing, planning, Policy Tagged With: affordable housing, development, filtering, gentrification

How to Fix San Francisco’s Housing Market

January 26, 2015 By Jeff Fong

Want to live in San Francisco? No problem, that’ll be $3,000 (a month)--but only if you act fast.In the last two years, the the cost of housing in San Francisco has increased 47% and shows no signs of stopping. Longtime residents find themselves priced out of town, the most vulnerable of whom … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Economics, housing, planning, Policy, rent control, sprawl, zoning Tagged With: affordable housing, Bay Area, gentrification, housing market, housing vouchers, land value tax, San Francisco

Cities, Zoning, and Industry

September 30, 2011 By Stephen Smith

D.C.'s Uline Arena – once a trash transfer station, now an indoor parking lot American cities have been on the rebound for about two decades now, with once moribund residential and commercial neighborhoods springing back to life. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: by Stephen Smith (Forbes) Tagged With: gentrification

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