Wiped Out by the Green Wave

2020 ◽  
pp. 49-83
Author(s):  
Melissa Checker
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Property Values ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
Communities Of Color ◽  
Public Status ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
Symbolic Value

Situated mainly in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood, this chapter examines “green gentrification”—the correlation between environmental improvements and high-end real estate development. Taking an historic look at urban parks and property values, this chapter begins with nineteenth-century discourses about nature, social uplift, and morality. The symbolic value attached to green space soon correlated with material value, as parks boosted nearby property values. Despite their public status, parks became spaces of subtle racial and class-based exclusion. As sustainability gained popularity in the early 2000s and the real estate market boomed, new green spaces became an amenity that drew affluent residents to gentrifying areas. Environmental justice activists in these neighborhoods thus found that the very improvements for which they had been fighting now facilitated gentrification and threatened to displace low-income residents and communities of color.

scholarly journals Moradia popular, ocupações e propriedade no centro de São Paulo: a trajetória de uma família e de um edifício / Low income housing, squatting and property in downtown São Paulo: the trajectory of a family and a building

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (4) ◽  
pp. 508-527
Author(s):  
Renato Cymbalista
Keyword(s):  
Real Estate ◽  
Low Income ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Sao Paulo ◽  
São Paulo ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
History Of ◽  
Migrant Family

ResumoO artigo tem como objetivo problematizar a diversidade interna dentro da categoria “ocupação urbana”, apontando para um universo pouco explorado de ocupações não protagonizadas pelos movimentos organizados de luta por moradia. O trabalho levanta a literatura existente sobre as diferentes formas de ocupação e trata de um estudo de caso, a história de um edifício que em 2020 existe como uma ocupação, mas que não se encaixa na categoria de ocupação organizada. Recupera a história do edifício e das tensões em torno da propriedade e da gestão, mobilizando também a história de uma família migrante de baixa renda que optou por morar sempre no centro de São Paulo, e passou por diversas situações de moradia em sua trajetória, incluindo uma passagem por esse edifício. Dessa narrativa emergem sujeitos sociais com papéis mais fluidos e menos pré-definidos, edifícios que mudam de caráter conforme a micropolítica vai se transformando, apresentando desafios específicos para o Estado, as políticas públicas e os marcos interpretativos. Uma situação que exige olharmos para as franjas do mercado imobiliário e da propriedade urbana.Palavras-Chave: Moradia, Habitação, São Paulo, Ocupações Urbanas, Cortiços. AbstractThe article aims to problematize internal diversity within the category "ocupação urbana" (urban squatting), pointing to a little explored universe of occupations not involved in organized movements of struggle for housing. The work analyses the existing literature on the different forms of occupation and deals with a case study, the history of a building that in 2020 exists as a squatted house that does not fit into the category of organized occupation. It retrieves the history of the building and the tensions surrounding property and management, also mobilizing the story of a low-income migrant family who chose to live always in downtown São Paulo, and went through several housing situations along their trajectory, including a passage through that building. From this narrative, social subjects emerge with more fluid and less predefined roles, buildings that change their character as micropolitics changes, presenting specific challenges for the State, public policies and interpretative frameworks. A situation that requires looking at the fringes of the real estate market and urban property.Keywords: Housing, São Paulo, Urban squatting, Tenement Houses

“I Am Not Co-op!”: The Struggle over Middle-Class Housing in 1970s New York

2017 ◽  
Vol 43 (6) ◽  
pp. 864-885 ◽  
Author(s):  
Benjamin Holtzman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Rental Housing ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
Real Estate Industry ◽  
Middle Income ◽  
The Real ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
The City

In 1970s New York, landlords and major real estate associations argued that New York could stem the exodus of middle-income residents by creating greater opportunities for homeownership in a city that had long been dominated overwhelmingly by renters. They proposed converting middle-income rental housing into cooperatives, a process that would also enable former landlords to profit handsomely. Tenants, however, widely rejected apartment ownership, preferring the security of rent-regulated housing. This article traces the ensuing struggles between tenants, the real estate industry, and city officials over the nature of moderate- and middle-income housing in New York. The eventual success of the real estate industry enabled cooperative conversions to expand dramatically in the 1980s, but only by bargaining with tenants and activists, offering tenants noneviction plans, and discounting prices. This process helped to transform the city by underwriting a momentous turnaround in the real estate market, while signaling a larger embrace of market deregulation.

Prologue

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-6
Author(s):  
Ann L. Buttenwieser
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Real Estate ◽  
Oil Spill ◽  
Negative Impact ◽  
Real Estate Market ◽  
The Real Estate ◽  
The Real Estate Market ◽  
Community Board ◽  
The City ◽  
New Yorkers

This chapter provides a background to an adventure that began with the author's love of the waterfront and her singular passion to build a floating pool and donate it to the city for use by recreationally underserved New Yorkers. It traces the author's discovery of the Progressive Era's nineteenth-century floating baths and her first nearly adversarial meeting with a community board to securing a barge to contain the pool. It also discusses the financing of the floating project, including its design and refitting of the vessel. The chapter reviews the story of the decline of and attempts to revitalize the New York and New Jersey waterfronts in the 1980s and 1990s. It cites the periodic rises in the real estate market and oil spill that had a direct negative impact on locating a barge to house the floating pool.

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