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Monthly Archives: March 2014
Assignment 3
Assignment 3 is available here.
Neighborhood impacts of informal tourist housing
Congratulations on your community board presentations yesterday! You were able to make lively the quotidian workings of neighborhood democracy in New York City – no small feat!
These seemingly small issues can contain a lot within them, as you showed us. On that note, here is a recent article (about New Orleans) that may shed light on why some Harlem residents are opposed to renting neighborhood housing to tourists.
Unfairbnb: What unlicensed short-term rentals mean for New Orleans.
By Dorian Commode and Jules Bentley.
Cities respond to gentrification
Yet another New York Times article on gentrification, this one about how cities are developing policies to protect long-term residents threatened with displacement. Note that NYC is not one of the cities described.