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Affordability and the City

Posted on August 19, 2008

Downtown housing affordability is an international problem.Interesting article: Alan Ehrenhalt argues in The New Republic that cities throughout North America are undergoing a demographic inversion, in which the center city is once again becoming home to the well-off rather than the poor.Chicago is gradually coming to resemble a traditional European city--Vienna or Paris in the nineteenth century, or, for that matter, Paris today. The poor and the newcomers are living on the outskirts. The people who live near the center--some of them black or Hispanic but most of them white--are those who...

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european , paris , vancouver