Jeremy's Blog – October 2015 Archive (2)

Bullet Train to pump 36 billion into Texas economy

The company predicts a hire of 10,000 temporary jobs over the four years of construction, and a permanent force of 1,000 employees.

The firm also believes that there will be an increase in private development at each of the station, in the form of high rise office space, residential and retail units.

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Added by Jeremy on October 27, 2015 at 11:02pm — No Comments

Gentrification and Displacement

"Gentrification and displacement have become so intimately linked in how we talk about certain neighborhoods that they've begun to fuse together, the one word silently imply the other, 'displacement' giving 'gentrification' its sinister tone."

This article provides a few back to back studies that suggest the gentrifying of neighborhoods may not always be such a bad thing. The displacement of poor families from these changing districts may not just be because of wealthy families moving…

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Added by Jeremy on October 27, 2015 at 10:56pm — No Comments

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