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this post was submitted on 22 Nov 2023
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- Henri Lefebvre, The Right to the City — In brief, the right to the city is the right to the production of a city. The labor of a worker is the source of most of the value of a commodity that is expropriated by the owner. The worker, therefore, has a right to benefit from that value denied to them. In the same way, the urban citizen produces and reproduces the city through their own daily actions. However, the the city is expropriated from the urbanite by the rich and the state. The right to the city is therefore the right to appropriate the city by and for those who make and remake it.
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Basically Rotterdam banned investors from owning housing in certain neighborhoods but not others. This allowed for a comparison on the effects of the ban.
In short, the ban did not decrease prices for homeowners but it did reduce the availability of rental properties which had negative impacts on poorer residents, young people, and immigrants. They conclude that the ban led to gentrification and a better policy would be to expand the production of housing, especially affordable housing.
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