Comment on Elvin K. Wyly and Daniel J. Hammel's “Islands of Decay in Seas of Renewal: Housing Policy and the Resurgence of Gentrification”

摘要: Abstract Gentrification ought to be examined, for policy purposes, as part of a general restructuring the space cities resulting from broader changes in nature, location, control, and effects economic processes. However, even if it is narrowly seen simply residential change, article by Wyly Hammel, displacement poor households an upper‐income gentry not confused with effort mix moderate low incomes public housing through best HOPE VI. Despite this confusion, Hammel provide some interesting data showing extent which investment inner‐city areas has accelerated recent years, paralleling financial arrangements contradicting any notion that degentrification continuous, long‐term process. Their data, although short on demographic detail, also implicitly highlight role government pushing market respond rationally demand continuing danger gentrification will di...