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Honestly, we should probably shut down this whole US thing until we can figure out what’s going on with it.
If you’re going to the Global South to study, sure. If you’re an American studying in like Germany or Denmark or wherever I assure you your precense isn’t making life more expensive for those living there.
going to school somewhere is totally the same as buying a 30 unit apartment building and converting the first floor to a boutique dog grooming business.
Yes. The production of gentrified businesses exists because if you built it, yuppies will come. But none of those yuppies individually are responsible for the construction of the business. The people funding it hold significantly more power of the details of what happens with the developments. Ideally a government would have proper zoning and oversee this to protect people from gentrification, but obviously those government functions become captured by capital quickly. So fundamentally the issue is labor relations, as always, but in terms of short term harm reduction and organization, renters unions are a good start, as are locally-owned workers coops
There’s also studies showing that governments will rezone, increase policing, extend transit, and take other measures to pave the way for gentrification. It doesn’t happen organically most of the time.
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Gentrification is the fault of the landlords and businesses that actually raise the prices, and it’s fucked that we routinely accept language that removes them from the cause and effect entirely.
