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…fraid the research isn’t there. In fact, one study featured in a paper on neighborhood early warning systems for [[gentrification]] cites historic [[architecture]] as one of five predictors of gentrification in the DC area. Aesthetic moralism—the belief t…

Analyzing data for the DC area, they identified the following five predictors of future gentrification (defined as sales prices that are above the DC average) in low-priced areas: (1) adjacency to higher-priced areas, (2) good access to [[the Metro subway system]], (3) historic architecture, (4) large housing units, and (5) more than 50 percent appreciation in sales prices between 1994 and 2000.

5 seems rather too causal, but the rest tracks.

…rent $1 million dollar median. America’s hatred towards the poor and the working class are laid bare in these naked feuds. In 2000, 42 units of federally-subsidized [[housing]] for [[teachers]] who could no longer afford to live in [[San Francisco]] was overthrown by homeowners in the Sunset District who in a fit of cruel hysteria claimed that “[the teachers] don’t even do a good job educating our kids,” and that the project was a slippery slope to public housing tower blocks that would usher in “rampant crime.” In Forest Hill, another neighbor…

…name and shame, name and shame!!