The Philadelphia Housing Authority will seize nearly 1,300 properties for a major urban renewal project in the city's Sharswood neighborhood. The plan includes the demolition of two of the neighborhood's three high-rise public housing buildings -- the Blumberg towers -- that will be replaced with a … [Read more...]
Archives for June 2015
Market Fundamentalism in the Mission?
There’s a proposal to place a moratorium on all market rate construction in the Mission District, one of San Francisco’s most rapidly gentrifying neighborhoods. Needless to say the proposal has sparked a debate. And Dan Ancona’s Putting Market Fundamentalism On Hold is another rock hurled into that … [Read more...]