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Change the Name of the Arts District to the Luxury District
There Goes the Neighborhood
English - October 17, 2017 16:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB - ★★★★★ - 537 ratingsDocumentary Society & Culture History gentrification brooklyn new york city nyc boroughs race real estate Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Are artists victims of gentrification? Or the perpetrators of it? Artists move into empty post-industrial spaces and poor neighborhoods, save on rent, create their work, build up studios and communities — and then find they're priced out.
Lisa Adams was evicted twice from L.A.'s downtown Arts District and is worried it's about to happen again. Thirty years ago the area was home to light manufacturing and warehouses. Now it's one of the city's most expensive places to live. "Artists are willing to put up with things that other populations won't," says Lisa, “You are a kind of forerunner to what is to come."