Rezoning, Real Estate, and The Dynamics of Displacement in Inwood

<p>This thesis asks <em>how New York City’s rezoning process combine with the dynamics of real-estate sales to create displacement pressures for low-income communities of color</em>. A case study of the recent rezoning of Inwood, a neighborhood in upper Manhattan, in August 2018, will help to illustrate these dynamics. Through an analysis of building sales and extreme rent inflation embedded in a historical and contemporary analysis of zoning and the influence of real-estate developers and owners on these processes, this thesis paints a dire picture of the risks faced by the mostly-Dominican-American renters in Inwood. The principal contribution of the thesis lies both in the assembly and analysis of the building-sales and rent data, and in the focused, neighborhood-level analysis of what are often larger, more abstract debates in contemporary studies of housing policy and urban dynamics.</p>

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Master

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Liberal Studies

Grantor

The Graduate School and University Center of The City University of New York

Year dc:date.available

2019

Author dc:creator

• Gonzalez, Damaly

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• John Krinsky

• Community-Based Learning
• Inequality and Stratification
• Place and Environment
• Politics and Social Change
• Public Administration
• Public Policy
• Quantitative, Qualitative, Comparative, and Historical Methodologies
• Social Policy
• Urban Studies
• Urban Studies and Planning
• urban sociology
• urban planning
• financialization of housing
• rezoning
• real estate
• displacement
• gentrification in New York City

Repository record dc:identifier

https://academicworks.cuny.edu/gc_etds/3362

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:academicworks.cuny.edu:gc_etds-4528