Artists unknowingly trigger gentrification that displaces poor racialized residents

Evidence

As numerous authors have noted since the 1980s, this championing of artists and creative types also sees them deployed as the “shock troops of gentrification” (Bowler and McBurney 1993; Harris 2013; Makagon 2010). Attracted to neighbourhoods that offer low rent, little surveillance, and large spaces for studios, visual artists, designers, actors, dancers and others have often unwittingly participated in colonizing poor, often racialized zones. As “creatives” move in, they, along with the services they attract (coffee shops, art galleries), make these neighbourhoods more appealing to affluent individuals and property speculators, thereby attracting the attention of the police and other authorities who were, hitherto, largely satisfied to ignore these areas. — Max Haiven, Cultures of Financialization, 462

Categorization

• XREF: Directly connects to deWaard’s cultural argument: cultural producers are unwitting instruments of financialized urban capital. — connects to: Artists acted as unwitting advance guard for neighborhood gentrification — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 85; Avant-garde films function as unintended documents of pre-gentrification neighborhoods — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now: The 1960s New York…, 1122; Urban regeneration discourse conceals racialized inclusions and exclusions (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Artists acted as unwitting advance guard for neighborhood gentrification #corroborates (0.98) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 85
• Artists’ presence in SoHo triggered the real estate price surge that displaced them #exemplifies (0.85) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1983
• Avant-garde films function as unintended documents of pre-gentrification neighborhoods #exemplifies (0.75) — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1122
• Urban regeneration discourse conceals racialized inclusions and exclusions #expands (0.72)