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The Gentrifier’s Guide to Not Being an Asshole | Village Voice

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Neil deMause

If anyone needed a perfect Rorschach test for 21st-century gentrification angst, it showed up this summer on Slate. The website created an “Are You a Gentrifier?” calculator that promised a simple yes/no answer. The calculator itself was fairly ham-fisted — … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Gentrification, Housing, New York City

What Happens to Families Forced Out of Bushwick? (City & State/City Limits)

Posted on May 4, 2015 by Neil deMause

Bushwick has been in the national spotlight of late, the most recent neighborhood to be emblematic of the New Brooklyn of hipster beards and trendy clubs. There’s now an artisanal Bushwick-scented candle you can buy for $81 “scent highlights include … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Development, Gentrification, Housing, Income Inequality

Wary Optimism Greets De Blasio’s Brooklyn Redevelopment Plans (City Limits/Brooklyn Bureau)

Posted on October 17, 2014 by Neil deMause

When the subject of Brooklyn’s hottest neighborhoods comes up, Broadway Junction seldom enters the conversation. Named for the tangle of J and L train tracks that pass overhead, Broadway Junction is less a neighborhood than the absence of one: a … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Brooklyn, Development, Housing

AP vs AP

Posted on March 23, 2010 by Neil deMause

The Associated Press today on the housing market and the economy: BOSTON (AP) — Home sales in the Northeast rose in February as the economy showed signs of recovery, inspiring buyers. … Nationwide, homes sales were up 8 percent from … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing, Media Crit, The Great Recession

NYC: A view from the basement (Metro NY)

Posted on December 2, 2009 by Neil deMause

Sure, Brooklyn has become fashionable on Mayor Bloomberg’s watch, but can he make it livable? A few years back, when the New York real estate market still looked within reach of, say, itinerant op-ed writers, I got to spend some … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Housing, Op-eds, Welfare and Poverty

11237: One New York City Neighborhood in the Bloomberg Era (City Limits Investigates)

Posted on October 30, 2009 by Neil deMause

I just received my hot-off-the-presses copy of the new issue of City Limits Investigates, with a report by CLI editor Jarrett Murphy and myself on how one New York City zip code — 11237, which covers most of the neighborhood … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Development, Government, Housing

Realtor goggles

Posted on May 6, 2009 by Neil deMause

The New York Times ran a Page One story yesterday headlined “Where Home Prices Crashed Early, Signs of a Rebound,” all about the housing market in Sacramento, which it declares to be in “the earliest stages of a recovery, a … Continue reading →

Posted in Housing, Media Crit

Kicking the middle class (Metro NY)

Posted on February 23, 2009 by Neil deMause

After a three-week hiatus, I make my return to the Metro op-ed page with a discussion of how a poorly thought out rent law is forcing people out of their homes: On a recent trip to my local coffee shop, … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Housing, Op-eds

Homelessness burns while condos fizzle (Metro NY)

Posted on December 29, 2008 by Neil deMause

Yes, “Condos Fizzle While Homelessness Burns” would have made a better Nero reference, and it’s what I suggested originally, but character counts are a harsh mistress. In any case, read on about how New York is facing a simultaneous housing … Continue reading →

Posted in Articles, Housing, Op-eds

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