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Apr. 30th, 2013 01:06 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pantryslutAs long as we're discussing Sarah Schulman, check out this talk she gave at The Luggage Store recently.
"Gentrifiers, unable to see other people as real, looked in the mirror and thought it was a window." It's not the money quote but I like it.
This is probably the money quote:
"At the time when gentrification started, the mid-seventies, we were told that our cities were broke, that we needed to expand the tax base, that we needed wealthier people who would pay more taxes, so that we could support our public sector’s infra-structure. Now, in 2012, New York and San Francisco are teeming with rich people. We are overrun with rich people- and yet in New York at least, we continue to close hospitals, fire teachers, shut down mass transit lines. Because the de-regulation by Republicans insured that these new wealthy people taking over our cities would NOT be paying taxes and therefore NOT supporting the cities they were exploiting."
And man does it link up with that piece in the Chron on Google buses; on the Oakland Local series on gentrification; to the Nation's recent issue on New York City, even. Not to mention the article I read just this morning on 7-11s opening up next to local corner stores in NYC and putting them out of business -- echoes of Starbucks.
"Gentrifiers, unable to see other people as real, looked in the mirror and thought it was a window." It's not the money quote but I like it.
This is probably the money quote:
"At the time when gentrification started, the mid-seventies, we were told that our cities were broke, that we needed to expand the tax base, that we needed wealthier people who would pay more taxes, so that we could support our public sector’s infra-structure. Now, in 2012, New York and San Francisco are teeming with rich people. We are overrun with rich people- and yet in New York at least, we continue to close hospitals, fire teachers, shut down mass transit lines. Because the de-regulation by Republicans insured that these new wealthy people taking over our cities would NOT be paying taxes and therefore NOT supporting the cities they were exploiting."
And man does it link up with that piece in the Chron on Google buses; on the Oakland Local series on gentrification; to the Nation's recent issue on New York City, even. Not to mention the article I read just this morning on 7-11s opening up next to local corner stores in NYC and putting them out of business -- echoes of Starbucks.
