A fascinating Radio Broadcast on KPFA. It deals with urban policy, gentrification, neo-conservative politics, and gentrification, and the abandonment of New Deal era liberalism in favor of alignment with the Real Estate and Finance sectors.
"Vitale makes a powerful, and likely irrefutable, case that New York City mayors could have made major inroads in reducing homelessness had they adopted more progressive land use policies."
This has a great deal in common with what has been going on in San Jose over the last 25 years, and is still Continuing
Vitale talks about the Branding of New York. Something very similar has geen going on in San Jose, with the same effects.
