Razing NY: The Disappearance of Affordable Housing (excerpt)

Razing NY: the Disappearance of Affordable Housing investigates patterns of gentrification throughout four different NYC neighborhoods. Bringing together community residents, organizers, business people and policy makers in the neighborhoods of the Lower East Side, Williamsburg, Bushwick and Fort Greene, youth producers cast their cameras on the politics of race, class and economic development as communities fight to make housing affordable for all.

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People & Blogs

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• neighborhood
• community
• nyc
• global action project
• youth
• media
• gentrification

[knad33]

i dont like racist ppl they suck they need to do something they need a life

[VanishingNewYork]

Nice work. Like the camera work, too. It is like the article in AM New York is a plant to start or fuel the gentrification in Bushwick. It would be a ripe area for all these developers feeding on New York right now.

[sophiesepe]

My father is second generation Italian, from Brooklyn, and my mother is Lithuanian/Hungarian, aka: "european". My family was & always has been poor, working class, and I am the first to work hard for a college education. In order to afford school I moved west, and am in the midst of watching affordable housing disappear here for many people, and I don't agree with it. The spirit of the neighborhoods are pushed out, and families of many generations, REGARDLESS OF RACE are also.

[sophiesepe]

uh, hate to interrupt this discussion, but does anyone know the song bite used in this video? thank you.

[newyorklost]

Sick of the destruction of neighborhoods? Gentrification? Globalization? Watch the trailer for New York Lost on my page.