Aram Zucker-Scharff

“Worst of them all is Kings County, New York, where a Brooklyner making a median income would need to set aside 98 percent of their salary to pay for a median-priced home of $615,000. But you can make do on 2% right? Food is too fattening anyway.”

– Brooklyn is now the most unaffordable place to buy a home in America. 

A Soaring Emblem of New York, and Its Upside-Down Priorities

Here’s What Happens When White People Move Into Your Neighborhood: We used to have white flight. Now, in city centers, we have something that one policy researcher calls white infill. So what happens when a bunch of white people start moving in? The ch…

The wolves of the web:

“The barons of high-tech like to think of themselves as very different creatures from the barons of Wall Street. They create cool devices that let us carry the world…”

“But today’s money-gorged young techies want to enjoy the perks of city life. Thus they buy up, occupy and gentrify whole urban districts: they are seceding in plain sight.”

Tech backlash comes as it becomes clear that a cheap iPad won’t fix social inequality.