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SUMMARY:The Affordable Housing Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Its Capitalist Roots and the Socialist Alternative\nA talk and discussion with Karl Beitel\nIn the 2020 Socialist Register “a number of the essays interrogate central dimensions of how we live and how we might live in terms of educating our children\, housing and urbanism\, accommodation of refugees and the displaced\, and (to lean on that all too common phrase) the competitive time pressures for ‘work-life balance’. These are all key questions\, of course\, of ‘social reproduction\,’ a theme that has cut across many volumes of the Register. They are the counterpoint to ‘economic reproduction’ and ‘how we work’ at the heart of several essays here. Today\, this involves exploring and exposing all the hype and contradictions of the so-called ‘gig economy\,’ where automation’s potential for increased time apart from work is subordinated to surveillance\, hazardous waste\, speed-up\, and much else that makes for contingent work and precarious living. Finding new ways of living cannot but confront both these obstacles.” \nOne of the most striking features of the post-1980 urban environment has been the rapid rise in property values and rents at rates far in excess of the growth of average income levels. The effect for many working-class populations – cultural workers\, those employed in the moderate- to lower-paid segments of the social and human services and retail sectors – has been a rise in the percentage of incomes these households must devote to housing payments. \nIn this essay\, Karl discusses the economics of new construction in already densely developed urban environments. Paradigmatic cases of the type of development dynamics that this essay will discuss are found in cities such as New York\, San Francisco\, London\, and Paris. Despite the fact that most housing is procured on the secondary market\, new construction is central to the debate over how cities must act to accommodate increased demand due to population growth and the shifting spatial patterns of employment. In addition\, new development has the ability to rapidly transform existing patterns of land use and the physical and sociocultural composition of the built environment. For these reasons\, new production is critical to current struggles over whose interests shall be served by this development\, and who has the rights to enjoy access to the existing – and newly created – urban environments. It also forces us to confront the question of how socialist urbanism will foster diverse urban spaces that can accommodate different requirements and preferences\, and that ensure equitable allocation of resources to meet the needs of all urban residents. \nKarl Beitel was formerly employed as policy analyst for Food First\, and has years of experience conducting policy-related and legal research for public sector unions in the Bay Area (SEIU 1021\, American Federation of Teachers\, and International Federation of Technical and Professional Employees Local 21). He has published numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals on topics spanning land use policy and affordable housing (Urban Affairs Review)\, the impacts of financial market dynamics on urban development (Environment and Planning A)\, and the U.S. and global economy (Historical Materialism\, Socialist Register). His work has also appeared in publications such as Counterpunch and Monthly Review. His recently completed book Local Protest\, Global Movements: Capital\, Community\, and State in San Francisco (Temple University Press) is an in-depth analysis of the history of community opposition to gentrification in San Francisco. \nAdmission is sliding scale. No one is turned away for inability to pay. Email info@marxedproject.org for information
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/the-affordable-housing-crisis/
LOCATION:Online Event – Zoom Meeting
CATEGORIES:Classes/Events,Seminars and Talks
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SUMMARY:Pictures of a Gone City
DESCRIPTION:Tech and the Dark Side of Prosperity in the San Francisco Bay Area\nRichard A. Walker \npresented with PM Press \nThe San Francisco Bay Area is currently the jewel in the crown of capitalism—the tech capital of the world and a gusher of wealth from the Silicon Gold Rush. It has been generating jobs\, spawning new innovation\, and spreading ideas that are changing lives everywhere. It boasts of being the Left Coast\, the Greenest City\, and the best place for workers in the USA. So what could be wrong? It may seem that the Bay Area has the best of it in Trump’s America\, but there is a dark side of success: overheated bubbles and spectacular crashes; exploding inequality and millions of underpaid workers; a boiling housing crisis\, mass displacement\, and severe environmental damage; a delusional tech elite and complicity with the worst in American politics. \nThis sweeping account of the Bay Area in the age of the tech boom covers many bases. It begins with the phenomenal concentration of IT in Greater Silicon Valley\, the fabulous economic growth of the bay region and the unbelievable wealth piling up for the 1% and high incomes of Upper Classes—in contrast to the fate of the working class and people of color earning poverty wages and struggling to keep their heads above water. The middle chapters survey the urban scene\, including the greatest housing bubble in the United States\, a metropolis exploding in every direction\, and a geography turned inside out. Lastly\, it hits the environmental impact of the boom\, the fantastical ideology of TechWorld\, and the political implications of the tech-led transformation of the bay region. \n “With Pictures of a Gone City\, California’s greatest geographer tells us how the Bay Area has become the global center of hi-tech capitalism. Drawing on a lifetime of research\, Richard Walker dismantles the mythology of the New Economy\, placing its creativity in a long history of power\, work\, and struggles for justice.”\n—Jason W. Moore\, author of Capitalism in the Web of Life \nRichard A. Walker is professor emeritus of geography at the University of California\, Berkeley\, where he taught from 1975 to 2012. Walker has written on a diverse range of topics in economic\, urban\, and environmental geography\, with scores of published articles to his credit. He is coauthor of The Capitalist Imperative (1989) and The New Social Economy (1992) and has written extensively on California\, including The Conquest of Bread (2004)\, The Country in the City (2007) and The Atlas of California (2013). He is currently director of the Living New Deal Project\, whose purpose is to inventory all New Deal public works sites in the United States and recover the lost memory of government investment for the good of all.  \nPublisher: PM Press/ Spectre\nISBN: 978-1-62963-510-1
URL:https://marxedproject.org/event/pictures-of-a-gone-city/
LOCATION:United States
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SUMMARY:Whose Cities? Our Cities!
DESCRIPTION:10 sessions\nOrganized with the Urban Class Struggles group by Thomas Wensing\nOctober 3 to December 12—no session November 21\n\nIn New York City\, the self-proclaimed ‘real estate capital of the world’\, working class housing has become either unaffordable or as cramped as 19th century conditions. The class that built\, and continues to build New York and metropolises around the globe can no longer afford to live near where they work\, while an international bourgeoisie of hyper-capital accumulation perch themselves in luxurious\, multi-roomed occasional real estate. Whether it be New York\, Tokyo\, Paris\, London\, Rome or Lagos\, the pattern repeats itself worldwide. Interconnectedness of global markets\, deregulation of capital and mortgage markets\, increased financialization of society\, have all led to real estate in the metro centers serving as a prime instrument in the accumulation of global capital. Joining the mobile elite of hedge fund investors\, Russian and Chinese oligarchs\, oil sheiks\, and billionaires are their criminal partners engaged in laundering\, smuggling and multiple other illicit activities\, all united hiding their identities and the source of their wealth through shell companies. These market forces that push the working classes out of the city and some into the ultimate austerity of homelessness are being met with growing resistance.  \nOur group will read Friedrich Engels’ “The Housing Question”\, David Harvey’s Rebel Cities\, David Madden and Peter Marcuse’s In Defense of Housing\, Fear City by Kim Phillips-Fein and conclude with Zoned Out\, edited by Tom Angotti and Sylvia Morse. \nOur aim is to gain the historical and theoretical understanding that can inform our fight to wrest control of our cities from the capitalist class\, and to discuss how cities can be reorganized to meet our human needs with a sustainable urban ecology. \nThomas Wensing works on residential and commercial projects at Morris Adjmi Architects. He holds licenses as an architect in both the UK and the Netherlands. He grew up in Den Helder\, The Netherlands\, and graduated from Delft University and Columbia University. His teaching experience includes the AA in London\, Eindhoven University\, and the University of Kent\, in Canterbury. Thomas is a regular contributor to Blueprint Magazine and other publications.
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