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	<title>Comments on: An OASIS in a Sea of Industry</title>
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		<title>By: Jeremy Sapienza</title>
		<link>http://bushwickbk.com/2008/11/25/an-oasis-in-a-sea-of-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-8997</link>
		<dc:creator>Jeremy Sapienza</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 16:53:29 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Lily, you&#039;re right, but I don&#039;t think the advice is to never live in an illegal loft. It&#039;s just to at least be aware of its status and avoid a place with many violations that would make it more likely to get raided.

It&#039;s funny though that there are some seemingly opposing anti-gentrification camps -- one says, only live in industrial spaces so as not to displace!, another says, protect all manufacturing space from residential use to save working class jobs!, another says, get the fuck out of here altogether! -- and the list goes on.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Lily, you&#8217;re right, but I don&#8217;t think the advice is to never live in an illegal loft. It&#8217;s just to at least be aware of its status and avoid a place with many violations that would make it more likely to get raided.</p>
<p>It&#8217;s funny though that there are some seemingly opposing anti-gentrification camps &#8212; one says, only live in industrial spaces so as not to displace!, another says, protect all manufacturing space from residential use to save working class jobs!, another says, get the fuck out of here altogether! &#8212; and the list goes on.</p>
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		<title>By: esb</title>
		<link>http://bushwickbk.com/2008/11/25/an-oasis-in-a-sea-of-industry/comment-page-1/#comment-8993</link>
		<dc:creator>esb</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 26 Nov 2008 03:40:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think the aim here is just to make sure that renters are armed with at least as much info as the DOB. It is potentially less risky renting a loft space knowing that it has no complaints filed against it. I think the legality of such residences is most often a given though tenants will not always divulge all the facts.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think the aim here is just to make sure that renters are armed with at least as much info as the DOB. It is potentially less risky renting a loft space knowing that it has no complaints filed against it. I think the legality of such residences is most often a given though tenants will not always divulge all the facts.</p>
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		<title>By: Lily</title>
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		<dc:creator>Lily</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 22:39:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Good point, but the situation at Troutman was a good deal more compliated than that, and might merit considerably more research than the author has given.  It might be worth pointing out that pretty much ALL loft spaces in Bushwick are in reclaimed factory or warehouse spaces and therefore not zoned for residential occupancy.

Encouraging potential Bushwick residents to occupy only residentially-zoned buildings (ie apartments) in an area rife with gentrification / displacement issues is essentially suggesting that the reclaiming of industrial spaces should be avoided in lieu of occupying apartments, which will rent to tenants new to the neighborhood at inflated rental fees.
This advice implicitly endorses the pricing of previous tenants out of their own neighborhood and, while well-intentioned, is indicative of a lack of community awareness on the part of those coming to Bushwick from afar.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Good point, but the situation at Troutman was a good deal more compliated than that, and might merit considerably more research than the author has given.  It might be worth pointing out that pretty much ALL loft spaces in Bushwick are in reclaimed factory or warehouse spaces and therefore not zoned for residential occupancy.</p>
<p>Encouraging potential Bushwick residents to occupy only residentially-zoned buildings (ie apartments) in an area rife with gentrification / displacement issues is essentially suggesting that the reclaiming of industrial spaces should be avoided in lieu of occupying apartments, which will rent to tenants new to the neighborhood at inflated rental fees.<br />
This advice implicitly endorses the pricing of previous tenants out of their own neighborhood and, while well-intentioned, is indicative of a lack of community awareness on the part of those coming to Bushwick from afar.</p>
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		<title>By: Diego</title>
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		<dc:creator>Diego</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 25 Nov 2008 20:14:31 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Nice post - very useful to Bushwickers</description>
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