Howard Jacobson Quotes

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.

In many cities, it's become popular to hate 'gentrifiers,' rich people who move in and drive up housing prices - pushing everyone else out.

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

Gentrification is what brings in all the money to the cities, but it also pushes some people out.

My take on gentrification and change is it's usually always a better thing, because when you see all these businesses open and flourishing, that means there are more jobs.

I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm not necessarily against transplants, as 75 percent of my good friends, roommate, and boyfriend are not native New Yorkers.

I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.

This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making it more livable for people. But you're not saying anything about the people that live there.

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

I know we haven't cleaned up all the slums, but I didn't create the slums, did I?

A lot of the stories about urban America tend to be written on the margins. We focus a lot on these big global cities - New York, San Francisco - or we focus on cities that are having the toughest time - Detroit, Newark, Camden.

I love San Francisco more than any other city outside of Seattle, but I've seen it go from a vibrant, creative community to a playground for tech bros.

I really did have this powerful sense, when I was in New Orleans after the storm, of watching all these profiteers descend on Baton Rouge to lobby to get rid of the housing projects and privatise the school system - I thought I was in some science-fiction experiment.

Part of being in New York is being able to brag about what used to be there.

You can raze the old buildings and erect magnificent corporate towers, hose down Port Authority, but you can't change people.

I think Giuliani started a trend that Bloomberg continued with rampant gentrification, and I think it's tough because why would any city choose not to do that?

If you look at the back pages of 'New York Times Magazine,' and they talk about these 6.5-million-dollar condos with a great view, like you're going to pay for a great view. Well, the top floor of the projects have a great view, too.

The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.

'Harlem: The Unmaking of a Ghetto' is a surprise and a fresh way of looking at Harlem, connecting the black district with the architecture of its historical past.