Write a paragraph about the film "Rezoning Harlem"

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In Rezoning Harlem, we learn that rezoning is essential to the gentrification of Harlem. The process is both economic and political. Rezoning did not only displace the Black population in Harlem but it also increased the white and wealthier population there as well. However, the question for debate is: Are NYC's rezoning plans (created by the City) causing displacement?

First, according to Vicki Been who was the former commissioner at New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (HPD) and is now a professor at New York University, Mandatory Inclusionary Housing (MIH) is necessary and that the City cannot adopt community-led rezoning plans, because these rezoning plans will "take many more years" for implementation. This refusal to pass community-led rezoning plans is also due to the immediately needs of children. Therefore, she argues "So, imperfect it (MIH; and the City's pro-developer rezoning) is, rezoning now to build more market rate housing, with the requirement that it include between 20 to 30 percent of the apartments as permanently affordable housing, is preferable to losing another generation to the no-growth, wall-the-city policies that follow from supply skepticism." In other words, Been argues that market rate housing is necessary because it could bring "affordable" housing to a generation of tenants (through tax-subsidies and pro-developer goodies) - even, when as Angotti argues, MIH is the "Trojan Horse" of displacement. Insofar that MIH is included in the zoning packages, therefore, the City's rezoning plans do not necessarily create displacement.

Second, Been also argues that 80% of NYC's affordable housing units are for "extremely-low, very low, and low-income" families. As Angotti argues, the measurement for the levels of income (how to classify low-income and middle-income) is involved with an AMI that does not reflect the low-income population within NYC, because the current AMI includes the wealthiest counties in NYS. Therefore, what is "low-income," "very low" income or "extremely" low-income for Vicki Been is questionable. MIH and its various tax subsidies will only help the developers; increasing housing stocks on the supply side does not translate into a balance between the supply and demand. The City's rezoning plans that involve MIH, tax subsidies, the protection for the wealthiest, will only cause more displacement.

After watching Rezoning Harlem, how do you answer the question of the debate? - Are NYC's rezoning plans (created by the City) causing displacement? What is "racist" about NYC's rezoning plans?


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The Rezoning plans implemented by The City Planning Ccommission is causing displacement and are racist. The market rate housing units that were built due to the rezoning out-prices the current residents who are predominantly minorities. Though Mrs.Been, and others, argue that a majority of housing targets low income earners of New York, they fail to point out that the income data includes residents of Nassau and Westchester county, which are some of the wealthiest counties in America and both considerably whiter than up zoned areas. These bloated income averages allow for "low-income" housing to be built that is out of the price range for the average low income city resident which tend to be of a minority group. The rezoning also displaces local businesses and residents due to rent hikes. Small ethnic stores and street vendors are replaced by corporate chains and rich whites who are able to pay the increased rent. Racism underlies this transition because The City Planning Commission views this as a sign of progress. The idea that a community was stagnant with black and Latino residents and small businesses and is now progressing when inhabited by whites and cooperations owned by whites is clearly and overtly racist. Furthermore, the majority of up zoned areas were inhabited by minorities and in these rezoning procedures, the city never mentioned the historic racial backgrounds of said areas. They also failed to designate sites that were important to the civil rights movement as historic landmarks thereby allowing them to be developed.
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Rezoning Harlem is racist and causes displacement
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Any gentrification move creates displacement and the rezoning plans by NYC are no
exception. When developers build new structures in the areas local communities will be
displaced primarily because they cannot afford the life of an urbanized area. In fact,
displac...


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