{"id":4116,"date":"2020-09-09T00:11:12","date_gmt":"2020-09-09T00:11:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/?p=4116"},"modified":"2020-09-09T00:11:14","modified_gmt":"2020-09-09T00:11:14","slug":"a-gentler-way-to-gentrify","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/2020\/09\/09\/a-gentler-way-to-gentrify\/","title":{"rendered":"A Gentler Way to Gentrify?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Gentrifier, interloper, developer: A new breed of builders is attempting to reclaim the \u201cD\u201d word and make development a little kinder and friendlier.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times, by Stefanos Chen, Aug. 16, 2019. <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Don\u2019t call the real estate development company Venn a developer. Its founders prefer \u201cneighboring start-up.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And don\u2019t call the company\u2019s tenants, who are scattered across 20 buildings in the quickly gentrifying Brooklyn neighborhood of Bushwick, renters. They are \u201cmembers\u201d or \u201cVenners.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe describe ourselves as a new way of living,\u201d said Or Bokobza, the chief executive, whose goals include ending the displacement of lower-income residents, creating \u201cfair housing\u201d and \u201cchanging the narrative\u201d of gentrification.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The company compiles reports<\/a> on its progress, recently announcing a 33 percent drop in loneliness among tenants. In Bushwick, Venners pay as little as $900 a month for a \u201cshared apartment\u201d (essentially a private bedroom with a common kitchen and bathroom) and access to community events, like mixers in the back of a bodega.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The model adopted by Venn is similar to what some call co-living, the dormlike division of apartments<\/a> into common areas and discrete, rentable bedrooms of about 120 to 350 square feet. (The company also rents larger, conventional units.) Included in the rent, about $900 to $1,200 for units with roommates, is access to communal spaces in Bushwick \u2014 including a coworking office space, a soon-to-be opened coffee shop and art gallery \u2014 and frequent social events, like a recent trip to a Queens beach in a yellow school bus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

By contrast, the median rent for a studio apartment in the neighborhood without any of those amenities was $2,076 a month in the second quarter of 2019, according to StreetEasy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Called\u00a0Liz, in honor of Elizabeth Taylor, a major donor to the clinic, the complex\u00a0near 14th and R Streets in Northwest Washington\u00a0will have 78 units, most renting for $2,400 to more than $6,000 a month. In part because of a zoning mandate, 12 units will be offered for $1,000 to $1,580 a month. The project was designed by Selldorf Architects, known for high-minded museums and high-end condominiums. The addition was built on and around the original clinic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Analysis<\/strong>: <\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article discusses alternatives to expensive developments that are built as an “alternative” to typical gentrifying efforts that usually displace people. I am interested in how locals view these new apartments. This article affirms that there are ways to gentrify that are “better” than others. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gentrifier, interloper, developer: A new breed of builders is attempting to reclaim the \u201cD\u201d word and make development a little kinder and friendlier. The New York Times, by Stefanos Chen, Aug. 16, 2019. Don\u2019t call the real estate development company Venn a developer. Its founders prefer \u201cneighboring start-up.\u201d And don\u2019t call the company\u2019s tenants, who […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":4379,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4116","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-business"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4116"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4382,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4116\/revisions\/4382"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4379"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/desis.osu.edu\/seniorthesis\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}