resources


Readings

Mayor Bill DeBlasio's 10-Year 5-Borough Affordable Housing Plan

Mayor Bloomberg's New Housing Marketplace Plan 2003-2014

Marx, Karl. Capital Volume One

Flores, Ronnie. What Drives Gentrification?

Wash Rosado, Anthony. Nothing Exists in a Vacuum

Voon, Claire. NYC Housing Realities: 53,000 Artists Apply for 89 Affordable Apartments.

Yu, Betty and Fischer, Noah. A People's Monument to Anti-Displacement Organizing.

Satow, Julie. Using Artists to Sell Condos in Miami and New York

Hu, Winnie. Bronx Pop-Up Show Prompts Criticism that it Invoked Borough's Painful Past

Knafo, Saki, Is Gentrification a Human-Rights Violation?

Cortright, Joe, Lost in Place: Why the Persistence and Spread of Concentrated Poverty--not Gentrification--is our Biggest Urban Challenge

Dai, Serena. Brooklyn Developer to give $80k to Local Artists

WNYC Podcast series: There Goes the Neighborhood

Chiwaya, Nigel, What is AMI?

Johnston, Garth. New York City's "Affordable" Housing Isn't Really Affordable, Report Finds

Association for Neighborhood and Housing Development, Real Affordability: An Evaluation of the Bloomberg Housing Program and Recommendations to Strengthen Affordable Housing Policy

Navarro, Mireya, New York Zoning Plan Requires More Affordable Homes

Bindelglass, Evan. Everything You Need to Know About NYC's 421-a Tax Program, Poised to Expire Today

Capps, Kriston, Deadlock Over the Federal Budget Made the Affordable-Housing Crisis Worse 

Cucci, Joe, How Much Do You Need to Earn to Afford a Modest Apartment [Infographic]

Liu, John C., New York City Comptroller, Income Inequality in New York City

DeMause, Neil, The Gentrifier's Guide to Not Being an Asshole

Corcoran, Cate, Does House Flipping Make Brooklyn Less Affordable?  

Whitford, Emma, This is What Affordable Housing Looks Like if You Want to Live Above Barclay Center

 

Community organizations

Brooklyn Anti-Gentrification Network (B.A.N.)

Equality for Flatbush / Before It's Gone

The Coalition to Protect Chinatown and LES

Artists Studio Affordability Project

Movement to Protect the People

Citywide Alliance Against Displacement

Make the Road by Walking

Am I Rent Stabilized?

 

City and State

NYC Housing Lottery

New York State Housing Services

NYC Rent Guidelines Board

 

art, activism, and Real Estate 

Gramsci Monument, Thomas Hirschhorn

Project Row Houses, Rick Lowe

House of Cards, Lisa Kirk

The Den Transaction, McKendree Key

Cage Piece, Miao Jiaxin

The Illuminator

Affordable New York, The Museum of the City of New York

Sidewalk Shed, Andrew Ohanesian