‘Enclaves for the rich’: new luxury housing is putting parts of Sydney out of reach to all but the very few

A wave of redevelopment in Bondi, the inner city and lower north shore is pricing people out – even while governments profess to be focused on affordability

The Guardian

Fordham University Press #books are 25% off with code JOY2025 through January 5! Plus, free shipping! 📚 📯

Check out their books on the #history of #NewYorkCity, including this updated edition of _South Bronx Rising_. It tells the neighborhood's history from New Amsterdam to COVID, with this latest edition praised as a "street-level" narrative of communities facing destruction and #gentrification.

https://fordhampress.com/south-bronx-rising-pb-9781531501211.html

#Bronx #histodons #bookstodon @histodons #Urban #NewYork

South Bronx Rising - Jill Jonnes

Thirty-five years after this landmark of urban history first captured the rise, fall, and rebirth of a once-thriving New York City borough—ravaged in the 1970s and ’80s by disinvestment and fires, then heroically revived and rebuilt in the 1990s by commun

Fordham University Press

OnlineFirst - "Territorial curation – Extracting value from the rent gap" by Catharina Thörn and Karin Swahn:

#gentrification #territorialstigmatization #territorialcuration #rentgap

https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X251400168

Thx for mentioning @madalex

All talks are streamed on #youtube [...] & will be stored there later. The #talk I did yesterday, "Brave New World (of #labour )? ' #AI ', '#digitalization & the shift of #power in #Society ", too

Danke für die Erwähnung, alle #Vorträge werden auf YouTube übertragen + dort später bereitgestellt. Auch mein Vortrag von gestern "Schöne neue (Arbeits-) Welt? ' #KI ', #Digitalisierung & gesellschaftliche #Machtverschiebung "

@AndrejHolm
#tech #politics #gentrification

Nice little protest song about it (in Dutch) by Luminyx, a local band:
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=PvH_Enl22Ks
#squat #punk #gentrification
I can’t say if this is true for everyone, but if you purchased a home in #HighlandPark in #LA after 2000 and you’re a stylist in #WestHollywood chances are that means you’re a gentrifier, rather than a trailblazing iconoclast. #themoreyouknow #gentrification #wakeup
eijndullukun bak#fiets voorut laageropgeliede segnemt!!!1!!😆😆😆😎🚲 #fatbakbike #gentrification #kkduur

Baguio residents oppose public market redevelopment pushed by SM and Mayor Benjamin Magalong.

When public markets in the lowlands like Iloilo are bought by SM, vendor rents go up and stall space shrinks.

#Philippines #Baguio #Asian #PublicMarket #Business #CAR #Benguet #Billionnaire #Luzon #Gentrification

https://thebaguiochronicle.com/2025/11/17/residents-air-woes-over-baguio-markets-future/

Gee, can't imagine why. In the end, for many, the true tragedy is #gentrification that pushes the locals out in favor of rich #assholes who build expensive and hurricane-proof homes in their place.

> Disaster and insurance costs are rising. The middle class is struggling to hang on
https://www.npr.org/2025/11/17/nx-s1-5546761/home-insurance-florida-climate-disaster-cop30

#BadEconomy #climate #weather

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