Day: August 5, 2013

Newcomers Forced Out By Rising Rents in Rapidly Gentrifying Crown Heights – Crown Heights – DNAinfo.com New YorkNewcomers Forced Out By Rising Rents in Rapidly Gentrifying Crown Heights – Crown Heights – DNAinfo.com New York

August 5, 2013| charitythomas| 0 Comment| 3:39 pm

See on Scoop.it – New Great Depression Affordable housing initatives aimed at longtime tenants attract desperate newcomers as rents balloon. Charity Thomas’s insight: Gentrifiers are gentrifying out gentrifiers. See on

Austerity ‘could be good for arts’Austerity ‘could be good for arts’

August 5, 2013| charitythomas| 0 Comment| 3:08 pm

See on Scoop.it – Film and Television Playwright Mark Ravenhill says funding cuts could be “a good thing” for the arts because artists would be less “safe and well behaved”.