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Of course. Ownership trumps renting. If I own for 1 second, and you rent for 1,000 years, my rights are still legally greater than yours.
What right do you have to decide what Someone Else can do with Their Property? Exactly how are your rights over Someone Else's Property legally greater than mine?
If ownership trumps renting, doesn't that invite and promote class warfare?
Since Spike now resides in New York maybe he should take in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver as a reference as to how far NY was come:
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk *******, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.
Since Spike now resides in New York maybe he should take in Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver as a reference as to how far NY was come:
Travis Bickle: All the animals come out at night - whores, skunk *******, buggers, queens, fairies, dopers, junkies, sick, venal. Someday a real rain will come and wash all this scum off the streets. I go all over. I take people to the Bronx, Brooklyn, I take 'em to Harlem. I don't care. Don't make no difference to me. It does to some. Some won't even take spooks. Don't make no difference to me.
I'd think he might be more familiar with the 1989 Do The Right Thing
I'd think he might be more familiar with the 1989 Do The Right Thing
That's too bad because Taxi Driver was a better movie. My point being that compared to the urban nightmare that certain parts of NY were back then, today's city is practically nirvana. When he goes on anti-gentrification rants he might take into consideration that the number of murders 40 years ago was over 4 times what it is today, and that's with 1 million more people living there now.
That's too bad because Taxi Driver was a better movie. My point being that compared to the urban nightmare that certain parts of NY were back then, today's city is practically nirvana. When he goes on anti-gentrification rants he might take into consideration that the number of murders 40 years ago was over 4 times what it is today, and that's with 1 million more people living there now.
But you're assuming gentrification is the only way to improve safety, which is not the case. There could have been an effort to improve safety while maintaining some of the working- and middle-class culture in Manhattan and not displacing so many people.
But you're assuming gentrification is the only way to improve safety, which is not the case. There could have been an effort to improve safety while maintaining some of the working- and middle-class culture in Manhattan and not displacing so many people.
Never said it was the only way, but judging from the examples of NY and DC it is the most effective way. Amazing thing about the latter example is that crime did not get exported to the suburbs of MD and VA.
Never said it was the only way, but judging from the examples of NY and DC it is the most effective way. Amazing thing about the latter example is that crime did not get exported to the suburbs of MD and VA.
One also tends to beget the other. I mean, you even see that in Detroit. Midtown $200-300k 1bd condos sell like hotcakes while go half a mile away and you can't sell a house for $20k. The hardest part in finding a house out there for 10% of what a condo would cost is finding who to buy it from. In most cases they're foreclosed or just simply abandoned.
Actually, that's true. If someone owns their home, then the renters are out of luck. Whether they have owned for one day or 100 years is irrelevant.
Only the renters IN the home the newbie bought. What superpower does a new arrival have over renters in Other People's Property?
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