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The word gentrification has become a buzzword to spell it out the changes in metropolitan neighborhoods in the united states, but we don't understand just how threatening it is. It means more than the appearance of trendy shops, much-maligned hipsters, and expensive lattes. The future of American towns as attractive, equitable spaces hangs in the balance. Peter Moskowitz's How to Kill a City takes listeners from your kitchen tables of hurting families who can't find the money for their homes to the corporate boardrooms and politics backrooms where damaging housing policies are devised. Along the way, Moskowitz uncovers the massive, systemic forces behind gentrification in New Orleans, Detroit, SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA, and NY. The deceptively simple question of that can and cannot find the money for to pay the lease goes to the heart and soul of America's crises of competition and inequality. Within the fight for economic opportunity and racial justice, little or nothing could become more important than casing. A energetic, hard-hitting expose, How to Kill a City reveals who holds power in our towns - and how exactly we can obtain it back.
