helvede.net is one of the many independent Mastodon servers you can use to participate in the fediverse.
Velkommen til Helvede, fediversets hotteste instance! Vi er en queerfeministisk server, der shitposter i den 9. cirkel. Welcome to Hell, We’re a DK-based queerfeminist server. Read our server rules!

Server stats:

158
active users

#gentrification

1 post1 participant0 posts today
DoomsdaysCW<p>When I first moved to <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortlandME</span></a> (back in the late 1990s), it was $750 a month for a three-bedroom apartment in a triple decker building which included a front room (parlor), living room (old dining room), a kitchen, a backroom (pantry), a porch, and basement storage! Now the same unit (assuming one can find one to rent, since many are now condos) would be $4,000 a month! No wonder just about everyone I know has moved away, and the couple friends who are left were able to buy years ago, but are getting priced out because of property taxes (one friend works 2 jobs just to cover their ass, and is thinking about selling).</p><p><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/UnaffordableHousing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UnaffordableHousing</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandMaine" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortlandMaine</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/GentrificationSucks" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>GentrificationSucks</span></a>!</p>
Ericka Simone<p>They are moving fast. Sad to see it go. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a></p>
Ivey Janette McClelland<p>Silver Lake. </p><p>To be replaced with yet another hipster venue. </p><p>Fuck <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a>. </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/losangeles" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>losangeles</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/blackmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blackmastodon</span></a> <a href="https://www.latimes.com/food/story/2025-04-18/say-cheese-gourmet-shop-silver-lake-permanent-closure-after-53-years" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">latimes.com/food/story/2025-04</span><span class="invisible">-18/say-cheese-gourmet-shop-silver-lake-permanent-closure-after-53-years</span></a></p>
Κάποιος Ταδόπουλος<p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/antireport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>antireport</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://todon.nl/tags/Exarcheia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Exarcheia</span></a> under siege: Behind the Saturday's Riot They Don’t Want You to understand <br><a href="https://youtube.com/watch?v=rdJzOTp9a_Y&amp;si=c1C760yuJ56GzUH9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">youtube.com/watch?v=rdJzOTp9a_</span><span class="invisible">Y&amp;si=c1C760yuJ56GzUH9</span></a></p><p>It is obvious the neighborhood of Exarcheia is changing in a violent way, but that is not due to riots or protests.</p><p>On the Saturday night of April 19th 2025, dozens of anarchists attacked with Molotov the scores of riot policemen that had encircled a live gig taking place in Strefi Hill of Exarcheia, in support of the people in Palestine. The public discussion that followed the fierce riot that unfolded and the threats made by members of the greek government to crush the anarchist movement in the neighbourhood, was about the events of that night, but purposely avoided addressing the reasons that led to that.</p><p>Exarcheia has always been a place under siege and attack. But in the last few years, the transformation of the neighborhood is taking place through systemic violence, with <a href="https://todon.nl/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> as a weapon. Once a cradle of radical thought and political resistance, the neighborhood is now the site of what many describe as an occupation.</p>
Multi Purr Puss :verified:<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://beige.party/@Kierkegaanks" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>Kierkegaanks</span></a></span> good point</p><p>Edit; i'm a socialist!</p><p>I think, they shouldn't get to quote average (local) rent development (chart), in order to demand more money! …see also <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/Gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentrification</span></a>!</p><p>Of course, they shouldn't be over-burdened, but referencing the rent everyone else pays, in the vicinity - that's just WRONG!</p><p>IT's ONE building - 12 parties - at least 400 bucks per unit per month!</p><p>As per my household book, they've gained ~55k €uros in <a href="https://layer8.space/tags/rent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>rent</span></a>, over ~10-ish years, just from MY contract, 1/12th!</p>
Lukas Fotogruber¯\_(ツ)_/¯<br> <br> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/punk?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#punk</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/recuperation?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#recuperation</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/gentrification?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#gentrification</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/berlin?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#berlin</a> <a href="https://pixelfed.de/discover/tags/kreuzberg?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#kreuzberg</a>
Center of the Universe<p>If you see this is your area it means the rent is going up <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ableton" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>ableton</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/totebag" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>totebag</span></a></p>
Rex_Tail<p>Politicians throw around the terminology “affordable housing” in an effort to show that they care about the financial safety of our communities. In Philadelphia however, data from a 2024 report from the Philadelphia Coalition for Affordable Communities shows that 32% of Black residents have been displaced from their neighborhoods.</p><p>So the next time you hear a politician say “affordable housing”, always ask: affordable for who?</p><p><a href="https://pslweb.org" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">pslweb.org</span><span class="invisible"></span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/philadelphia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>philadelphia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/usa" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>usa</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a></p>
DoomsdaysCW<p>So, I've gotten to know some of the unhoused folks in <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/PortlandME" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PortlandME</span></a>. I listen to their stories when I'm protesting, and try to have a little something to hand out to them (money, warm gloves, healthy snack packs). It breaks my heart to see so many in need when there are empty spaces and even boarded up buildings downtown, and yet ritzy boutique shops everywhere! Someone can afford the high rents -- but it's not the people! I remember when one could rent an affordable studio apartment over a retail space. Not anymore! I couldn't afford to live there, and pretty much most of my friends have been pushed out because of gentrification. And now there is urban decay because of the empty spaces. Is it the 1980s again?!!<br><a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingForAll" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingForAll</span></a></p>
icaria36 🎶<p>Cada vegada que torno a aquest vídeo i aquesta cançó em salta alguna nova llàgrima.</p><p>ADALA ft. TRIBADE - AMOR AL BARRI</p><p><a href="https://video.anartist.org/w/cQjcEU54Nc1guSoCTCoGa9" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">video.anartist.org/w/cQjcEU54N</span><span class="invisible">c1guSoCTCoGa9</span></a></p><p>Moltes gràcies <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://video.anartist.org/video-channels/adala" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>adala</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://social.anartist.org/@blankfosk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blankfosk</span></a></span> !</p><p><a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/pah" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pah</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/stopdeshaucios" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>stopdeshaucios</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/touristification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>touristification</span></a> <a href="https://social.anartist.org/tags/musica" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>musica</span></a></p>
Franklin López<p>Best film I've watched this year so far (I watch a lot of fuckin movies!) "Evil Does Not Exist" by by Ryusuke Hamaguchi. Many themes for folks who give a shit about the environment, and hate <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> and fuckin <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/hipsters" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hipsters</span></a>. The pacing is slow AF - you have been warned Thx <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://pixelfed.social/zola" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>zola</span></a></span> for the recommendation </p><p><a href="https://youtu.be/zVY4lWfrbME" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">youtu.be/zVY4lWfrbME</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>
medio pocillo ☕<p>Discrimination Against Puerto Ricans in the Puerto Rican Housing Market: Evidence From a Preregistered Audit Experiment<br>-<br>vía Giovanni Castro Irizarry </p><p>&gt; Excited to share my most recent article, [...] where I analyze through a housing audit how realtors in Puerto Rico discriminate against Puerto Rican homebuyers in favor of Americans.<br>Check it out: <a href="https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/discrimination-against-puerto-ricans-in-the-puerto-rican-housing-market-evidence-from-a-preregistered-audit-experiment/A3F55E2BABDC9B8AA20ACE9B9E31FBC3?utm_source=mastodon" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">cambridge.org/core/journals/jo</span><span class="invisible">urnal-of-race-ethnicity-and-politics/article/discrimination-against-puerto-ricans-in-the-puerto-rican-housing-market-evidence-from-a-preregistered-audit-experiment/A3F55E2BABDC9B8AA20ACE9B9E31FBC3?utm_source=mastodon</span></a></p><p>🐦🔗 <a href="https://x.com/CastroIrizarry/status/1849793553540456708" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">x.com/CastroIrizarry/status/18</span><span class="invisible">49793553540456708</span></a></p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/puertorico" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>puertorico</span></a></span> <br><a href="https://spore.social/tags/PuertoRico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuertoRico</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/mastodonPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mastodonPR</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/discrimination" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>discrimination</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/housing" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>housing</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://spore.social/tags/openAccess" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>openAccess</span></a></p>
A-Dub<p>ugh. the city really did clear almost all the unhoused encampment tents from Allan Gardens today that aren't part of the Land Back protest tipis+tents cluster. only one non-LB tent was left standing - the biggest - and, according to a probably believable source, the city workers and cops will be back for that one tomorrow 😞 <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/HousingEmergency" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>HousingEmergency</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/TorontoTheCruel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>TorontoTheCruel</span></a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/Toronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Toronto</span></a></p>
Our Human Family<p>💛 “Michael Che, the Enlightenment, and Whiteness”<br>By Rebecca Hyman</p><p>To ask “what was here before whiteness” is to open the more dangerous question: what had to be eliminated, for this way of organizing reality to appear natural.</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/BlackMastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BlackMastodon</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/Gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/SystemicRacism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>SystemicRacism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WhiteSupremacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>WhiteSupremacy</span></a> </p><p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@BigAngBlack" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>BigAngBlack</span></a></span><br><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/blackmastodon" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>blackmastodon</span></a></span></p><p><a href="https://www.ohfweekly.org/hyman-michael-che-the-enlightenment-and-whiteness/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">ohfweekly.org/hyman-michael-ch</span><span class="invisible">e-the-enlightenment-and-whiteness/</span></a></p>
Flüpke<p>Some blogpost @ ripencc calling for the <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> of the internet :(</p><p>Anti-capitalist catgirls meowing their /24s into my serious-business enterprise-grade unpatched Cisco router? No way!</p><p>Being an ISP ought to be the privilege of us big evil corporations, not some hobbyists!</p><p>We big ISPs even decided to make owning a personal ASN ridiculously expensive, yet here they are. Why won’t they buy our very enterprisy services instead?? ☹️</p>
Miguel Afonso Caetano<p><a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Cities" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Cities</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Urbanism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Urbanism</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NewYorkCity" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYorkCity</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NewYork" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NewYork</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/NYC" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>NYC</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/Coops" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Coops</span></a> <a href="https://tldr.nettime.org/tags/UrbanPlanning" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>UrbanPlanning</span></a>: "The lessons learned in the 1960s and ’70s persisted long after state capacity or will to impose “projects” on the urban fabric had withered on the vine. However, the communitarianism of Jacobs’s work is more fundamentally a neoliberal assertion of the primacy of the market. Only developers decide what gets built where.</p><p>This way of thinking has produced the dominant strain in contemporary policy circles known as YIMBYism. YIMBYism, or market urbanism, asserts — in the face of overwhelming evidence — that private development can solve the crises of commodification and price spirals that have defined housing in the urban core of the twenty-first-century West. Unbeknownst to many of that tendency, the way they think about the city has its roots in the history of New York, co-opted by the developer lobby.</p><p>Hatherley aptly summarizes the perverse effects of the New York Ideology, but what he finds when he visits New York itself is a city with a vast stock of social, affordable, and cooperative housing. Despite the protestations of Jacobs, it is precisely “projects” in their various forms that are the holdout sanctuaries of the dense, diverse communities that have since been gentrified out of the Village she fought so hard to save. The book’s first and most complex task, then, is to unpick the web of institutions and organizations that built this housing stock. A cavalcade of local and federal authorities, trade unions, and cooperative movements variously arranged along ethnic, ideological, and factional lines make up the players of the book. Its basic insight is that on a walk through the Bronx, you may well be surprised to come across serried ranks of Brezhnevka (Soviet-style concrete apartment blocks) and be even more so to discover that they were built not by the New York City Housing Authority but by the Amalgamated Meat Cutters Union for its members." <a href="https://jacobin.com/2024/08/urban-planning-jane-jacobs-yimbys/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">jacobin.com/2024/08/urban-plan</span><span class="invisible">ning-jane-jacobs-yimbys/</span></a></p>
Alx 🐈<p>On rural gentrification: Castiglioncello (another place I visited when I was a child), Tuscany, that is now almost completely a private hotel [in Italian, but automated translation isn’t bad]: the result of a national politics that intentionally forgot the rural people in the name of economic progress, and the orientalist foreign capitalist gaze that doesn’t understand that the soul of a place is the everyday people, not in the buildings</p><p><a href="https://www.internazionale.it/reportage/alessandro-calvi/2024/08/21/castiglioncello-toscana-turismo" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">internazionale.it/reportage/al</span><span class="invisible">essandro-calvi/2024/08/21/castiglioncello-toscana-turismo</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/turism" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>turism</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.design/tags/Italy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Italy</span></a></p>
A. Rivera<p>In the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BadEconomy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BadEconomy</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/BackInTheUSColony" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>BackInTheUSColony</span></a>. One of the many reasons I am not going back to the island in my lifetime. (Some of this may also be <a href="https://mas.to/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a>). </p><p>&gt;Cost of living in San Juan, Bayamón &amp; Caguas exceeds national average <a href="https://www.sanjuandailystar.com/post/cost-of-living-in-san-juan-bayam%C3%B3n-caguas-exceeds-national-average" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">sanjuandailystar.com/post/cost</span><span class="invisible">-of-living-in-san-juan-bayam%C3%B3n-caguas-exceeds-national-average</span></a> </p><p><a href="https://mas.to/tags/PuertoRico" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>PuertoRico</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/MastodonPR" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MastodonPR</span></a></p>
James Akers<p>I got to visit my buddy Yale's (the other TA at Pilchuck for Galen) studio in Seattle. It is on a manmade port island in Seattle, right next to a sheet metal shop Yale used to work at. What a space!</p><p>Yale fixed it up a bunch and put a neon shop and metal shop in it. There used to be many artists here but Yale and another artist are the only two left. Weed grow operations are moving into industrial warehouses like these and offering more money to landlords- so all the artists get kicked out as grow lights, and watering equipment move in. Yes, the space smelled like weed.</p><p>It's perfect for him, and it seems like with favorable industrial gas and electric prices- it's not a bad place to be. Yale has some amazing metal working tools and his neon shop is expanding its plasma capabilities. Excited to see his work grow- he has a solo show in downtown Seattle later this fall.</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/studiovisit" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>studiovisit</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/yalewolf" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>yalewolf</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/steel" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>steel</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sheetmetal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sheetmetal</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/artist" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>artist</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/streetart" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>streetart</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pnw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pnw</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/warehouse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>warehouse</span></a></p>
James Akers<p>A little video of Galen's finished "Slumlord" sign. I bent the neon for him, and some of his sign painter buddies helped with the paint design. </p><p>Galen wears the "Slumlord" badge with pride- refusing to raise rent on his property in the rapidly gentrifying Hilltop neighborhood of Tacoma. The piece is inspired by another landlord with a coin operated gas meter on the stove (quarters for cooking time). </p><p>We love the clickity clackety of the mechanical incandescent bulb flasher in there- Galen mounted it so the whole metal "can" acts as an "amplifier". Galen loves anything mechanical. It was way fun being his Teachers Assistant for the class.</p><p>The ruby red glass in this came from Chihuly "Studio 1" in Tacoma (long since moved to Seattle)</p><p><a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glassschool" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glassschool</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Seattle" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Seattle</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/Tacoma" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>Tacoma</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/hilltop" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>hilltop</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/pilchuck" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>pilchuck</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/neon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>neon</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/blinky" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>blinky</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/lightbulbs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>lightbulbs</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/incandescent" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>incandescent</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sign" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sign</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/landlord" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>landlord</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/glass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>glass</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/handmade" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>handmade</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/sculpture" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>sculpture</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/gentrification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>gentrification</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/mechanical" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>mechanical</span></a> <a href="https://expressional.social/tags/airplane" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>airplane</span></a></p>