Comments on: Berlin’s skyrocketing housing costs and hipster proliferation

By: Polly

Polly — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:56:31 +0000

P.S Shelter Porn hahahhah

By: Polly

Polly — Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:55:58 +0000

I’ve seen the same sad old story in my local neighborhood in East London, a new shopping village of corporate ‘pop-up’ chain stores has been the final straw. Chain stores are the grim reaper for any vibrant low-rent area… It great that you guys think about these things, thats what the world needs! Else you end up with social housing that looks like it was designed for cattle not humans (we see ALOT of this in England) the only social housing thats stood the test of time seems to be the Victorian ones, which were mostly sold off thanks to Thatcher!

By: Erica W.

Erica W. — Sat, 22 Sep 2012 12:12:31 +0000

I guess civics education has largely failed. Or succeeded if the goal was to make people so uncaring and/or disenchanted and/or ignorant that they wouldn’t participate in public life to any meaningful extent. Sigh.

By: LB

LB — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:41:30 +0000

In reply to Erica W..

Amen. And thank you for this comment, by the way. It is always heartening to have other bloggers back up this argument, particularly when we’re all in the interior design and shelter porn world. If if we have the privilege to talk about beautifying our homes all the time, we should also be advocating for those who don’t have or can barely afford a place to live. As for your point about Romney – no kidding! People being paid minimum wage by corporations profiting massively from their labour don’t deserve the right to fair pay or housing? Say what! R/Money is so out of touch with reality I’m surprised he’s not more worried about the pitchforks. Anyway, thanks.

By: Erica W.

Erica W. — Thu, 20 Sep 2012 17:34:30 +0000

The right to housing certainly seems like it should be a fundamental human right. One of the things that I haven’t seen addressed in the coverage of Mitt Romney’s “47%” talk is what he listed as the things that the layabout non-income tax paying people feel entitled to: “healthcare, food, housing”. Ummmm… yeah — what person isn’t entitled to those?