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I don't see why anyone without a proclivity for the most base and knee jerk racism would have a problem with that.

You fail to understand the way capital reconstitutes itself. Boom towns are the flip side of collapse in other places. Large influxes of capital are pulled from previous centers (like Detroit for example) that are left to crumble, only to eventually serve as an "empty" shell in which capital can...

As long as everyone on this forum is functionally unable to understand class society and the material conflict between the capitalist class and the working class, to the point that you will reach for every single imaginary straw available before even considering it, probably. I also think the...

Building tall buildings for rich people apparently is how you house a growing population lol. Im sorry but if you want to talk about failing to grasp things the basic reality is that luxury developments are left mostly empty by rich people with other homes who want to use them as investments...

Blame everything but capitalist profiteering for high costs.

The market is not "natural," build build build is not natural. That the only way to lower prices in your eyes has nothing to do with decommodification or attempting to address the contradiction between use and exchange value but only with a doubling down on developmentalist capitalism (which has...

It was once entirely free, they only started making people pay when they were desegregated.

Can developers only think in entire isolated blocks? Apparently they can only try to contextually fit in for billboards of oil companies.

Class is racialized.

This might surprise you but the USSR and the PRC were, and in the case of china definitely are even more so now, state-capitalist. If you are interested in the concept CLR James writes about it if you are interested in the concept.

Well it isn't really free shit. You still pay rent and it is actually a concession won from capital through struggle, hardly free. Anti-capitalism is good.

The other thread was locked but the idea that rent control wasnt/isnt popular is dumb as bricks. It was massively popular in the places it actually existed, aka what actually matters about determining the impact. It was only voted down by those living outside of those communities after a massive...

There are other ways to ensure affordable housing besides build, build, build. like.. gasp... rent control, squatting and holding homes after evictions, tenant unions fighting evictions in the first place, etc. You ignore the possibility for action by anyone but the political and capitalist...

It isn't a choice for everyone. What you are really saying is that you don't care about poor/working class people and are fine with people who cannot afford to buy being displaced. You should just come out and say it rather than hiding behind the bullshit market devotion (which I'm sure ignores...

How exactly does this show that it isn't happening? It is obviously true that rich people use expensive properties as investments rather than living spaces, and I cannot for the life of me see how even more luxury development being built (as the cycle of tax breaks for developers seems...

All hail lord market determiner of the necessity of all things.

The homeless people in PSI have been a part of the community far longer than the rich suburbanites moving into the developments next door. Some of you really want to cleanse cities of undesirables to make way for yuppie colonization and it is fucking disgusting.

Thinking centralized development districts benefit the whole city is just buying into the geographic equivalent of trickle down, especially when that new "tax base" was given tax breaks to go there in the first place.

And you are clearly the type of idiot who thinks marxist is an insult. Id wager you think you are better than other people because you were born into riches. Sorry you feel my literally unedited forum post isn't up to your literary standards lol but maybe again the problem is that you simply...

Seaport is a massive investment in construction that benefits a very small group of people and absolutely will contribute to the gentrification of the rest of southie, which will and has absolutely included displacement. Seaport is basically trickle down infrastructure, rather than investing in...