Our newest issue of Beyond the Headlines is here in both digital and print!
Articles
- “Lake Worth: When Communities Become Luxuries”
- Strategies like engaging with elected officials are insufficient to halt gentrification. We can see this in Lake Worth Beach where the state government placed their thumb on the scale to attract developers and additionally when a local institution pushed for new buildings that would price out many of the residents already there. The strategies that work are those that maintain the power of organized groups of people, not those that funnel them into one outlet.
- “Trailer Home Residents Fight Back”
- An examination of the fight between Li’l Abner Mobile Home Park residents and CREI Holdings & the government of Sweetwater as the latter has been trying to displace the former in their quest to build a multi-use apartment complex. Drawing on retrospectives written by members of Black Rose/Rosa Negra and continued reporting from local news sources, we point out not just who is doing this, but what it means to resist this whenever it happens.
- “When Developers Say Luxury Apartments, We Hear Replacement!”
- Because of the economic situation we’re all currently living in, something as essential as housing is growing inaccessible for more and more people as time goes on. Especially in South Florida as we remove existing forms of housing and replace them with those that are much more expensive, even though that goes against the will of the masses. Capitalist developers devour our neighborhoods and we’re reaching a crossroads; resist or leave.
Check out our previous issue at the link below.
Issue #1
