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+([link](https://commonedge.org/architecture-aesthetic-moralism-and-the-crisis-of-urban-housing/))
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+> ...fraid the research isn’t there. *In fact, one study featured in a paper on neighborhood early warning systems for [gentrification](#gentrification) cites historic [architecture](#architecture) as one of five predictors of gentrification in the DC area.*
+Aesthetic moralism—the belief t...
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+> Analyzing data for the DC area, they identified the following five predictors of future gentrification (defined as sales prices that are above the DC average) in low-priced areas: (1) adjacency to higher-priced areas, (2) good access to [the Metro subway system](#public transit), (3) historic architecture, (4) large housing units, and (5) more than 50 percent appreciation in sales prices between 1994 and 2000.
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+5 seems rather too causal, but the rest tracks. 
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+> ...rent $1 million dollar median. 
+*America’s hatred towards the poor and the working class are laid bare in these naked feuds. In 2000, 42 units of federally-subsidized [housing](#housing) for [teachers](#teachers) who could no longer afford to live in [San Francisco](#san francisco) was overthrown by homeowners in the Sunset District who in a fit of cruel hysteria claimed that “[the teachers] don’t even do a good job educating our kids,” and that the project was a slippery slope to public housing tower blocks that would usher in “rampant crime.”* In Forest Hill, another neighbor...
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+...name and shame, name and shame!!