Geography of Income Equality and Gentrification
In a truly global market, the price of real estate doesn't necessarily reflect the ability of those living in the area to afford it.
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Gentrification
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Ironic Demographics: Brooklyn Is Dying
What can we learn, if anything, from the drop in median household income in New York City's most populous borough?
Explaining Gentrification: Real Estate Bubble Trouble in Stockholm
As the problems in Sweden's capital demonstrate, the issue of housing supply isn't nearly as critical as that of housing demand.
Explaining Gentrification: Geography of Knowledge Hubs
Of course a growing population indicates a growing demand for housing. But around knowledge hubs, which act as agents of gentrification, population can actually decrease while demand for quality changes.
Explaining Gentrification: Global Jobs Versus Local Jobs
Gentrification spreads along the lines that link residential areas to the tradable jobs (health care, education, banking, technology) downtown.
Explaining Gentrification
There are more factors at play than just those related to the real estate market.
Ironic Gentrification and the Migration of Globalization
Higher education and health care, two major elements of the new Legacy Economy, are attracting global talent and gentrifying the neighborhoods that surround them, pricing out residents who toil in the local or regional labor market.
San Francisco’s Fortress Against Gentrification
The Tenderloin hasn't gentrified in part because the quality of housing supply is repugnant.