Sublime

An old house at a low price is irresistible to me.

These families are often compelled to accept substandard housing conditions. In Milwaukee, renters whose previous move was involuntary were 25 percent more likely to experience long-term housing problems than similar renters who moved under less trying circumstances.

De ce point de vue, la résidentialisation n’a pas aidé les quartiers populaires, déjà très emmurés. Ainsi peuvent sortir de terre du jour au lendemain, en plein milieu d’une dalle, là où habituellement les enfants jouaient au football, de hauts murs blancs qui n’ont d’autre utilité que de séparer – protéger – ceux qui habitent le nouvel immeuble de

the inexorable movement of real-estate capital into traditionally poor areas and can no longer afford what used to be affordable.

It has often happened before, in many other parts of the world. People are attracted to an area because of its beauty and its promise of peace, and then they transform it into a high-rent suburb complete with cocktail parties, burglar-alarm systems, four-wheel-drive recreational vehicles, and other essential trappings of la vie rustique. I