The New York Review of Books

Today’s emphasis on zoning over all other factors or strategies in housing politics reflects two forces: the atrocious land use policies in place all around the country… and the way we have largely foreclosed other ways of confronting housing crises, like social housing and rent regulation. Yet zoning is no substitute for a deeper program to empower tenants and decommodify housing. The understanding of gentrification is indeed changing, but when it comes to gentrification, change is the norm.

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