Student Type
Ph.D.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
4-14-2015
Abstract
How do rent hikes and labor precarity conspire to reinforce each other against tenants and workers? Samuel Stein explains the mechanisms that link these two trends affecting citizens and calls for a tightening of rent-control laws to stop the spiraling descent of American residents into poverty.
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Comments
This article was originally published in Metropolitics, April 14, 2015. URL: http://www.metropolitiques.eu/Precarity-and-Gentrification-A.html