Kaylee McGhee White argues NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s pied-à-terre tax is to ‘punish’ people the mayor doesn’t like during an appearance on ’The Evening Edit.’
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She […] The post Venice tenants face eviction from their own homes to clear way for $133 million housing project backed by Nithya Raman appeared first on American Almanac .
Nonprofit developers are hauling longtime low-income renters into court to kick them out of a city-owned Venice fourplex, all to build a $133 million affordable housing project that the city's own attorney has called "infeasible and unauthorized." Mary Alice Crowe moved into her apartment near the Venice Canals forty-three years ago. She was twenty-nine. She raised her son there, built a life there, and at seventy-one she assumed she would stay. Allan Phillips, her neighbor in the same small building, has lived there for thirty-five years. Both pay below-market rent on city-owned land. Both now face a legal action filed by nonprofit developers who want them gone, and who argue they cannot afford to wait for the tenants' own lawsuit…Open
AI:In another crushing blow to the working class, Los Angeles officials and nonprofit developers are weaponizing the legal system to steamroll longtime low-income tenants in Venice. These residents, some having occupied their homes for over four decades, are being dragged into court to make room for a massive $133 million "affordable housing" project backed by Nithya Raman. Even more egregious is that the city's own attorney has flagged this entire endeavor as unauthorized and infeasible, yet the bureaucratic machine pushes forward regardless of the human cost. This isn't about helping people; it is a coordinated displacement effort where existing residents are treated like obstacles in a high-stakes real estate game orchestrated by radical…Open
The yearslong battle has pitted community members in favor of preserving the garden against politicians, housing advocates and developers who say the space should be used to build affordable homes.
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The Barbican, a once divisive housing complex in central London, is now considered an architectural masterpiece. Residents are fighting plans for a 20-story building next door.
Longtime leaders and advocates in minority districts fear that victories by the Democratic Socialists of America in gentrifying neighborhoods could mean political erasure.
A towering apartment development has been approved for the waterfront, even though some residents would have preferred parkland.
By Monica Showalter This isn't Mamdani's first effort at this, either.
Nothing has been lied about more than the cause and impact of white flight.
By separating the spatial effects and then measuring the indirect “spillover effects," this research paints a clearer picture of immigration's overreach into communities, theoretically spread over the whole country.