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Archive - 2007 - Blog entry
Affordable Housing in Austin- Tools to Fight Gentrification
By georgessorel - Posted on September 29th, 2007
<p>The big issue in Austin is the cost of housing, and the fact that as Austin has become a hot spot recognized around the country, folks have been flooding in and driving up rental and purchasing costs of homes, much to the chagrin of natives, low-income groups, civil rights organizations, environmentalists- well basically everyone besides developers.</p>
<p>We talk and talk this issue to death, and I can't count the number of times I've heard people bash the Californians and their McMansions, but apart from some dynamic organizations like PODER or the Texas Affordable Housing Project, people don't seem to fight gentrification. It causes enormous anger, but people don't seem to know what to do about it, what tools they can use to fight it.</p>
<p><b>Austin Affordable Housing Crisis General Assembly</b></p>
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