Myth of Corporate Efficiency
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Seminar Outline:
Gentrification and Displacement
How to minimize displacement of poor people when revitalizing a city
People often say they are against gentrification when they are really against the displacement of poor people that usually accompanies gentrification. We show why government policies to promote and revitalize particular neighborhoods are far more damaging to the poor than tax policies that could attract richer property owners with little or no displacement of poor home owners.
Improved desirability
Attraction of wealthier residents
Increased rents
Displacement of poorer residents
Landlords and speculators
Home owners who can afford to stay
City tax base (if no subsidies)
Renters who cannot afford to stay
City tax base (if heavy subsidies)
Home owners who cannot afford to stay
Renters who can afford to stay
City tax base (if light subsidies)
Part of growth and adaptation
Gradual and Diffuse
Relatively benign
Rent growth vs. income growth
Class tensions
Tax policies
Zoning policies
Neighborhood targetting
Government incentives and interventionst
Anticipation of change
Slumlording and Abandonment
Tax penalties for good citizenship
Crime
Anticipation of subsidies
Targetting individual neighborhoods
Buying out slumlords
Fostering abrupt change
Wholesale redevelopment
Eminent domain
Projects that reduce density
Citywide incentives
Penalizing slumlords
Fostering incremental change
Encouraging modest redevelopment
Allowing for higher density
Neighborhood alliance organizations
Affordable housing advocates
Taxpayer organizations
Environmentalists
Historical preservationists
Progressive business associations
Small contractors and remodellers
Opponents of corporate welfare
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How You Can Help
- Research
- Outreach
- Transcribing Documents
- Donating Money
- Training for Responsibility
Our Constituents
- Public Officials
- Small Businesses
- Family Farms
- Organic Farms
- Vegetarians
- Labor
- Real Estate Leaders
- Innovative Land Speculators
- Homeowners
- Tenants
- Ethnic Minorities
- Ideological Groups
Fundamental Principles
- Decentralism and Freedom
- Focusing on Local Reform
- Government as Referee
- Government as Public Servant
- Earth as a Commons
- Money as a Common Medium
- Property Derives from Labor
Core Issues
- Democratic Process
- Monopoly
- Debt Money
- Taxation
- Privilege
Derivative Issues
- Wealth Concentration
- Corruption
- Bureaucracy
- Authorities
- Privatization
- Centralization
- Globalization and Trade
- Economic Stagnation
- Boom-Bust Cycles
- Development Subsidies
- Sprawl
- Gentrification
- Pollution and Depletion
- Public Services
- Transportation
- Education
- Health Care
- Retirement
- Wages
- Zoning
- Parks
- Shared Services
Blinding Misconceptions
- Orwellian Economics
- Corporate Efficiency
- Democracy vs. Elections
- Big Government Solutions
- Founding Fathers
- Politics of Fear
- Politics of Least Resistance
- Radical vs. Militant
- Left vs. Right
- Common vs. Collective
- Analysis vs. Vilification
- Influence vs. Power
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