change. the hill has become the new weekend stomping ground of breeders from the tech companies and the locals are displeased. john criscitello, street artist that is waging a one-man war against the rent hikes that are pushing people like him out of the neighborhood. anthony: are we talking about an infestation of tech bros? is this, uh, what, 10 years ago would this be a gay neighborhood? john: it was, sort of, an enclave for artists and for queer people. anthony: and, so what s happening now? john: old, big tech corporations that have moved into the city people need some place to live so a lot of development companies bought up every corner. if they keep this sort of façade, they can build taller. so this was just this, and then they plunk this down in the center of it. anthony: ah, so they re keeping the character of the neighborhood sort of, kind of. john: they call it façadomy. i ve heard it termed, façadomy. the problem, of course, is that rents double. so w
the hill has become the new weekend stomping ground of breeders from the tech companies and the locals are displeased. john criscitello, street artist that is waging a one-man war against the rent hikes that are pushing people like him out of the neighborhood. anthony: are we talking about an infestation of tech bros? is this, uh, what, 10 years ago would this be a gay neighborhood? john: it was, sort of, an enclave for artists and for queer people. anthony: and, so what s happening now? john: old, big tech corporations that have moved into the city people need some place to live so a lot of development companies bought up every corner. if they keep this sort of façade, they can build taller. so this was just this, and then they plunk this down in the center of it. anthony: ah, so they re keeping the character of the neighborhood sort of, kind of. john: they call it façadomy. i ve heard it termed, façadomy. the problem, of course, is that rents double. so what you
. people have to have a home and social cohesion needs to be maintained we don t want things to my fall apart or. must often starts out as i m hopeless in palin the battle lines have long been drawn with tenants and landlords pitted against each other especially in neighborhoods considered desirable. local authorities have so far established close to fifty neighborhood preservation areas that gives them the right to buy property under certain conditions to prevent speculation. this marks a significant turnaround. until a few years ago the city was selling off pup. housing. and if it s outrageous what went on but in sold hundreds of thousands of apartments and now we have to deal with property companies and invoke neighborhood preservation grounds to make them moderate the rent hikes they demand because they modernize the