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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War

Defying Displacement: Urban Recomposition and Social War

Lee, Andrew

Paperback

Series: Anarchist Interventions, Book 9

General SociologyPoverty & Social WorkUnited States Politics

Publisher Price: $17.00

ISBN10: 184935524X
ISBN13: 9781849355247
Publisher: AK Press
Published: Feb 6 2024
Pages: 216
Weight: 0.55
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.20 Depth: 7.90
Language: English

A revolutionary new study of gentrification ... and how to stop it.

Cities around the world are in the midst of a profound transformation as the wealthy price out the remnants of the urban working class, especially people of color. Displacement is neither accidental or inevitable. It happens because a whole range of people and institutions profit handsomely. Defying Displacement, focused on the US but informed by global examples, investigates gentrification from the perspective of the people fighting it, members of communities whose survival is threatened by some of the most powerful institutions on the planet. Andrew Lee names the names and identifies the actual state and corporate forces that work together to enrich a very specific group of people: property developers and real estate investors who make a killing, politicians who watch their tax bases grow, banks that write profitable loans for new businesses and mortgages for new homeowners. Meanwhile, business districts are planned, tax abatements unveiled, redevelopment schemes dreamed up, corporate and university campuses expanded, and ordinary people are driven from their homes.

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