Stay Here: Gentrification and the Neoliberal City
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2021
- A home renovation show where the houses are renovated so they can be rented out on Airbnb. This one almost broke me
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Wachsmuth, D., & Weisler, A. (2018). Airbnb and the rent gap: Gentrification through the sharing economy. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 50(6), 1147-1170. doi.org/10.1177/0308518X18778038
Jover, Jaime, and Ibán Díaz-Parra. “Who Is the City for? Overtourism, Lifestyle Migration and Social Sustainability.” Tourism Geographies (2020): n. pag. Tourism Geographies. Web.
Neoliberalism and the City talk by David Harvey: journals.library.brocku.ca/in... 
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Virginia Ali is literally a Civil Rights Icon and they treat her like some random business owner. Ben's Chili Bowl was a very important location for Civil Rights organizing in the 1950s and 1960s. Even fucking food-tourism channels handle these types of interactions with more grace.
I got more value from this comment than I did from any of that show
Growing up in the DC area, I felt so much pain with how the hosts treated Ben's Chili Bowl like it was just a simple big local place, rather than the icon of civil rights activism it is.
@@astral6069 they view it the same way as the place where like the Hawaiian pizza was invented 🥴 “Wow what a niche interesting location all your Instagram followers are going to love this.” I honestly think this type of person is ideal capitalist human. The socialist experiments of the 20th century tried and failed to create a new type of human being, capitalism has succeeded and it’s fucking this.
This white frat boy didn’t really have the right to be running a “boutique hotel” in a historically black building like 5 blocks away from Howard in the first place.
The way they insulted Miss Virginia was just an extra slap in the face.
"Obama ate here once an-..."
"- really? Wow, do you remember the day he authorised the bombing of that wedding?"
I literally recoiled at "native american aesthetic"
Lol right? If anyone was ever confused about cultural appropriation, this is the most perfect example ever. You can't make this shit up!
@@idontwantahandlethough at Tomahawks r' Us, you can offend ALL your native friends
there is truly no better example of cultural appropriation than the bland, gentrified ""Aztec"" pattern market.
They could've easily done something similar but hired native American people or bought from their businesses.
I could feel every hair on my body stand on end, and then immediately recede back under my skin.
The gay dude standing in front of his new office-shed with the Navajo blanket pattern wearing a rictus grin of fear and regret is the most iconic image of our era
"We aren't racist, some of the places where we descriminate based on race are black neighbourhoods!"
i love how completely unintentionally this show is entwined with get out. from "stay here" to the obama comment to the voyuerism of racial trauma + black identity to the shameless capitalism.....top tier halloween viewing
With a little retweaking I can easily see this becoming a mockumentary companion piece to _Get Out_ , but that would require a level of self-awareness the creators seem incabable of
I would 100% watch a Jordan Peele movie about those topics told through the lens of a short term rental property.
@@cjboyo GET IN.
@@cjboyo Sure, but I would watch a Jordan Peele movie about basically anything.
@@cjboyo a 23 Cameras remake.. Based on this show.. OMG!!!!
Absolutely love how often they repeat that the space needs to be “depersonalized” to rent successfully, when every single person I know (myself included) loves staying places with unique funky art or little knickknacks on the shelving, or stuff like funny kitchen tools like a monkey peeler or rainbow steel cutlery, over places that all look like generic basic budget hotel rooms you can get anywhere 💀
I mean you don't know everybody in the world, and somebody is still renting these places out apparently. The people I know don't care either way because they're spending most of their waking hours outside the place. By the time they get back, their either ready to crash, or fuck whoever they brought back and then crash afterwards. The home decor wouldn't really matter to them by that point, but instead they look for a place based on what's around or near to it.
I don't see a problem with either kind of space existing, but I also wouldn't want one to completely overtake the other in a strong arm way like they're doing in the show.
Same. One of my favorite air BnBs was one with the owners library of science fiction books. He left a note saying to read as many as we'd like and to sign his guest book with your favorite book
One of the funnest air bnbs we stayed at was home to a large collection of Bob Marley memorabilia ☝️😂😭
@@normandy2501 no one is going to say no to a room if that's all they are looking for, but when you ask someone if they'd rather stay in a place that exists or this nice little place in the _back rooms_ people are going to pick the place that exists every time. No one wants to stay in a sterile hole if they have options.
Ah, that's because you have souls. You're not the target demographic, they want people with more money
the comment she made about "depersonalization" was particularly nightmarish to me, because that exact empty, not-quite-inhabited, uncanny valley feeling is exactly why i despise airb&bs and avoid them whenever possible
but don't forget, we can "depersonalize" your house while also "borrowing" from "native american aesthetics." We can really spice your house up with a hollow and shallow appropriation of... totems... apparently, by creating a geometric wood pattern on your door and call it tribal.
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@@zeroslash2050 They love what they made but not the people.
I've only ever stayed in one and it was literally a coachhouse on this rich asshole's land. He was weirdly hostile about us parking on his giant drive, even though we'd already gotten his permission. We accidentally set off a smoke alarm with a birthday candle sparkler (too much heat and sparks, no actual damage to the house) and I hope it fucking woke him up lmao.
To be fair not all air b&b s are that way! Some I visited have been incredibly nice little homely cottages, not pristine and hollow, but genuinely authentically lived in and really felt much nicer than a hotel etc
it's so stupid, cuz the little personalizations are what REALLY make you stand out. this fucking show is heartbreaking. also gotta love the white guy saying that the lady is his friend while she obviously cringes everytime he touches her...
I stayed at exactly one AirBnB when I was applying to schools, and liked it because it was basically a hostel: cheap, other people you would interact with, and the guy who ran it lived in the area (and kept his pictures on the wall!) The guy was actually a part of the neighborhood, and the personalization brought him and his guests a little closer, even for a brief time.
Of course, he could make more money if he gutted that old house of his so...
If I wanted a cold, dead, liminal space, I'd stay in a hotel and meet god in the halls or smth
@@somedragonbastard what he doin in da halls
@@celery8059looking for his room bc he forgot the number duh
I love when they tell the locals what the authentic place to eat is. I feel like they don't know what 'authentic' means.
To be fair, Ben’s is genuinely authentic. It’s a local legend. But it’s already so famous and doesn’t need the endorsement of these idiots
Taking people to the #1 restaurant in the city instead of some hidden gem (which is probably small, and locally owned).
Yeah I also found that really off-putting. When you're a guest in a city, at least acknowledge how clueless you are instead of acting like the arbiter of authenticity
Definitely!
Their Austin pick is the worst. Maybe I've just been away from the city for too long (meaning nearly 5 years), but if you want to go to a brewery, I'd go to Austin Beerworks or 4th Tap - I'd never heard of Celis, but again maybe that's just me. But an authentic barbecue experience at Celis? I don't know man, like Franklin's and Salt Lick exist???
Or here's a fun idea, Austinites are proud as hell about knowing places to go to for whatever you want to do (I should know, I'm one of them) - whether its truly local, some bougee post-hipster thing, or something literally everyone else knows about - have the owners take the hosts on their favorite experience, make the episode a sort of give-and-take deal.
They really took the black people out to teach them to make a bed I fucking can't 💀
And they couldn't even teach them themselves (because of course they don't know how to make a bed)
I skipped forward through that clip. I just couldn't...
If anyone asks me "whats casual racism?" I'll just show them that clip
I understand that part. I mean, they usually take the hosts to nice restaurants, and you couldn't bring a family that's...
Ok, I'm sorry, but even with my sarcasm module dialed to the max, I can't bring myself to type something as evil. :/
Imagine if it was a french maid that whitesplained the shit out of the black hostel owners
The whole ‘imagine you’re owning a hotel’ and ‘depersonalise’ thing is weird to me - the best Airbnb’s I’ve ever stayed in were very personal, integrated with the hosts’ lives. Not soulless ‘small businesses’.
Capitalism is the blank, eldritch horror of humanity. Absorb, consume, and plunder.
"The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed in its growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically."
I've stayed in one airbnb. The family was there. They made me spaghetti. I played with the dog.
@@renfineout5350 how god intended it
Best hostel I've been in, had a bar under the ground. Cheap beer and other drinks, close to an inner city. Lots of locals. Super cheap, large private room. Weird colors, no wifi. Really made me feel alive. Better than any hotel I've slept in.
I remember seeing AirBNB ads when it was new and their biggest selling point was that you would rent a authentic home at your destination instead of a bland hotel room.
As a carpenter who remodels homes for a living, every home renovation show is the absolute worst, and they’ve given homeowners a COMPLETELY skewed idea of what’s reasonably doable at a given budget and timeline. 50% of the time it’s like “wElL tHaT’s NoT hOw ThEy Do It On HgTv”
Are you as sick of open concept as I am?
@@30seagullsinatrenchcoat11 - Open layouts are great, and should be the default design for new houses.
But are they worth the effort of tearing down three walls, relocating critical support columns, and gutting the entire kitchen?
No. No they are not.
@@CheshireCad open concept shouldn't be default, just like the opposite shouldn't be default. The layout of the house should be suited to the environment the house exists within to be the most eco-friendly and economical (properly insulated walls + double glazed windows lower heating/cooling bills, closing off the kitchen in hot climates prevents the entire house heating up etc). Open concept is overrated in that it prevents the ability to isolate heat or cool for specific spaces, which can be vital during the climate issues we are heading into.
Example; my house was built over 100 yrs ago + has a massive granite wall down the center, dividing the kitchen + the living room. The living room is completely cut off from the kitchen, and is accessed by going through the dining room, which is connected to the kitchen + the backdoor. When we had record setting 37+ C days this summer, keeping all the doors shut for the living room kept it at a base temp of 24/7, a full 10 degree difference from the outside. Meanwhile the more exposed/open kitchen + dining rooms were both at 35/7. This was at the hottest time of day.
Meanwhile my friends house is open plan with massive ceilings, and she spends everyday that isn't summer in fuzzy socks bc her feet are ALWAYS freezing bc all the heat is 20 feet above her, and I'm chilling without them until it actually snows.
@@doctorwholover1012 - The reason why it should be the default is because it's far harder to take walls out than it is to add them, or similar partitions like shelving or curtains.
Obviously there are exceptions that need to be kept in mind. Such as your rather extreme climate examples. And any home with high-vaulted ceilings, which are already a heating/cooling liability, should have heated floors and/or carpeting.
"You've got the whole Aztec blanket pattern mapped on the pool house"
An actual line from this actual show.
Turns out we really are in hell
"native American aesthetic" smh 😒
@@flamingo6828 I try to avoid those """tribal""" and '''''geometric''''' aesthetics esp in clothing like the fucking plague, it's honestly so cringe(real Native culture is obvi not). I damn well know it's not my place to be wearing sacred motifs like a decoration. What sucks is Native and other Indigenous people have said so many times that it is offensive but people become piss babies when they are told 'no' or when any POC (for that matter) bring up cultural appropriation.
@@SpoopySquid Nooooooo not the cultural appropririnos! How could they do this? Dae think we are in hell because some lame people made a bad design choice? Thanks for the upboats
Not by a native artist even. To have an out for aproviation comments
"Native American aesthetic" she says. I cringed internally. Haven't we done enough to the Native Americans? Why are we doing this, too?
Show me where the renovation touched you
In a way they're metaphorically invading and colonizing the b&bs and stripping them of their identity to homogenise them
So it fits pretty well to be using whitefied native art
Appropriating Native American aesthetic but in like, a very "modern contemporary abstract way"
There is a difference between appropriation and homage. I recently viewed some Japanese style woodblock prints that were absolutely beautiful, and the owner of the prints informed me that they were produced by a French artist.
the scariest part is that there are millions of people that will see this show and nod along with the host as they talk about ways to ruin neighborhoods and make it even harder for most people to live in those places.
That was literally me like 3 years ago, I actually really liked the show but now I feel bad 😭😭😭
yes its so insidious to talk about the destruction of marginalised communities in such pinterest bullshit terms
Wife Swap should definitely be next! It’s fascinating how much that show doesn’t gaf about the well-being of the families and also it’s weirdly biased towards conservative families, to the point of framing a woman trying to ban the kids she swapped to from wearing the color black and the kid’s understandable indignation is framed as brattiness. That woman also GRABBED a TODDLER, yanked him back by the arm and said “I only want to hear yes ma’am from you”
The creepiest thing from the original wife swap is this father who was obsessed with his daughter's innocence and virginity. One of the conflicts is that he wouldn't let her a have a guy friend (even when he was only going bowling with a group of people, they weren't going to be alone) but the super creepy thing was he was ranting about his daughter and ended up admitting that he discussed getting her a chasity belt. SO fucking weird and disgusting. I love the show overall and think it has potential (despite how utterly frustrating it is and by virtue of it's premise it gives equal credence to the more..... messed up families). I would love to see We're in Hell's take on it.
@@batty_babette that is such a fucking red flag for sexual abuse I genuinely am SHOCKED people in their community didn’t see the episode and IMMEDIATELY call CPS.
There was a wife swap where a kid really liked books and new mom said they should be doing sports etc and THREW ALL THEIR BOOKS OUT!!
@@batty_babette "I worry about you, Bevvie. Sometimes I worry a lot."
They had a stay at home husband that was an out of work actor. And he was "lazy" and "worthless" even though he takes care of his kids and his wife is doing well enough to pay everything. And the 'happy ending' is him getting a shitty painting job where he said it was dangerous occasionally. And the stay at home wife stayed the same of course. A lot of the show is fake I'm sure though
I've stayed at hostels before. I was broke, but I wanted see places, or meet with dear friends who didn't have space for a guest. Ruining a local spot to stay for cheap is an evil. At hostels you're not there to experience the accomodations. You're there for a place to sleep while you experience the city. Expectations are that it's clean, friendly, and cheap. And often times part of what keeps it cheap and clean is a chore or two asked of each of the guests. But even that fosters a sense of community. Short term community, sure. But you're asked to care about the space you're sleeping in, and participate in making it a good place to stay. No need to pay for maids if each guest takes on a chore. But this system allows for people like me to go places I couldn't go to otherwise, and in a way makes it feel more like a temporary home, because I'm taking care of it with every else who stays there. Also, I'm totally cool with bunk beds. Like I said. Hostels aren't about lounging in a hotel room. They're about experiencing the city.
Totally agree hostels are a godsend for so many people
I cannot believe they gentrified a hostel, after the guy specifically said he wanted to keep it affordable.
Back when I could travel I would always use hostels. Some of my most fun travel memories are from staying at hostels. Some of them offer interesting city walking tours, or a simple breakfast of toast, jam and tea bags. A quick snack to get you started for a day of exploring a new town. Not to mention meeting other travelers who can share tips and advice about the city you're staying in.
I remember three years ago I had just finished a long contract and saved my money so that I could fulfill a bucket list dream vacation of mine, spending a week in Cuba. I was staying at a hostel in Havana for about 70 USD a night, and I met a young French woman who shared that she was traveling around central America for her winter break to learn the local dances of the places she visited. A young Canadian man staying there was also there to learn Salsa. They gave everyone in the lounge area a crash course on the Salsa dancing they had learned so far and the whole lobby turned into a tiny dance party for all the guests who had come to Cuba from all over the world. Russia, Kenya, France, the US. It was a blast, and the next day, even though we had all just met each other that night, we all decided to get lunch together.
Never saw those nice people again, but I cherish the memories and hope they're all doing well.
Fuck AirBnB and it's "Depersonalized" ideas of travel.
I stayed at Hostel in San Diego once. Room was the size of a large closet and had communal bathrooms. 20 bucks a night Downtown across the street from the Harbor. I LOVED it. I think that was in 2007...that shit doesn't exist anymore. Fuck these rich assholes.
Airbnb is the decaffeinated coffee of hostels. There can't be any kind of surprise or inconvenience, the world must become the playground for trustfund babies.
I'm literally going to cry over the woman being told to get rid of her pictures wtf wtf wtf
Why are your eyes leaking hu-man?
@@btarczy5067 against all odds I apparently care about landlords now lol
@@MiriamClairify That's just how screwed up this show is.
Surely she can just take them down lol i don't get it
@@PrettyPinkPeacock yes and it would be sad.
Idk, I don't think I have the writing ability to convey why I'm feeling any kind of feeling in a yt comment section lol. Depersonalization as a concept for a way to treat a home makes me feel hollow and icky. It's the loss on top of loss in this case I think; losing a loved one and then turning her home into not-her-home for a while for money. The way we live in a home and it reflects that back to us feels very sentimental to me. Imagining having to hide that, even temporarily, feels like a violation. Guess I'll never make it as a landlord. 😪😂
i gotta say, the bit where the hosts convince the guy to live in a shittier apartment is the best unintentional anti-capitalist satire ive seen in months
Depersonalisation is exactly what neoliberalism is all about. I think it was Baudrillard who said that in the modern home objects take precedence over everything else, including the functionality of said objects. People are reduced to collections of objects and patterns of consumption
Like 75% of the clips you showed in this were spine-chilling, Jesus. Great video.
You like WIH? Nice.
Hey! Didn't think I'd see you here!
Hey, thanks man!
Look who it is
Caaaaaptaaaaain Midnight! I am also surprised to see you here. CM has good taste.
"How are you guys doing your dishes right now?" "By hand" "Not sexy." WHAT ??
I’m glad I wasn’t the only one who found that line particularly disturbing in a way I can’t verbalize
Yeah that smacked me in the face like a bowling ball.
Like, do people really use a dishwasher for.... Like, 3 forks, one plate, and a cup? You're on vacation.... How many dishes can you possibly be using? I've lived in two houses with dishwashers, and I think I used them exactly twice. And once was after a thousand person party when I was 14.
@@ewetn1 I was more concerned about the idea that dishwashing ought to be "sexy."
@@ewetn1 on vacation yes, they're useless- but they're really important for daily washing. They waste way less water than handwashing, sanitize way better and don't make you lose time.
I've been really interested in Venice recently, a city that's been commodified for tourism since the early 1800s. It's been turned into this Disneyland of attractions, hotels, and short term rentals, and Venetian citizens have to move to the mainland because it's far more profitable for landlords to let to tourists for weeks or months than to rent their properties to long term residents. The population is aging because young people have to move away, especially if they want jobs that aren't in the hospitality and tourism sector. Not to mention the cruise boats that damage the very foundations of the city and bring in day trippers who contribute little to the local economy because the cruises are like floating malls. It's really sad and scary to learn about.
It's so important that this sort of fate is avoided for other cities. We don't need another Venice.
They’ve banned the cruise ships from the Venice lagoon now because they were sinking the city, so at least that’s a start
Los Angeles has definitely gone that way. Housing is out of control and I'm watching a lot of my friends have to move out of town, hell out of state even. My own family lives all over the state because so many of us can't afford to be here. I've seen family go from just reaching upper middle class to spiraling back towards poverty.
Minor victory on the part of Venice: The people there I believe did recently vote to keep cruise liners away from the city for that exact reason. I would assume it was kind of a political alliance of convenience between actual citizens and landowners (cruise liner tourists don't rent either after all) but still.
Don’t worry, you’re crappy town isn’t Venice.
Venice is now “Vegas of the seas” 😢
29:32 I literally had a flashback to one of my urban studies classes I was in. I was the only Black person in my section and our TA wanted someone to talk about what Jim Crow was to gauge the knowledge of the class. I was minding my own business waiting for someone to answer, looking down doodling in my notebook, but then I realized it had been quiet for a little too long, and I looked up and the rest of the class was fucking staring at me expecting to answer. Like an absolute fool, I did, but in hindsight I wished I had said "it's more insulting for none of y'all to even try to guess and be wrong than to at least try instead of shouldering this expectation of knowledge onto the only Black person in this room."
I always think of the perfect thing to say after it’s too late. Usually not as good as that tho
Perfectly describes all race based conversations I have as a black woman in tech. Any conversation that must include race is awkward and I'm expected to carry the conversation. The conversations are important but why leave them to just myself.
@@swayback7375 That kind of thing is called a Stairjoke in french. Anytime you think of the perfect response way after the conversatiion.
@@nitashajohnson4767 I been thinking about this comment for a while… 11 months by the looks of it.. I’m white but have never had friends or fit in, and like yourself I found race to be pretty awkward to discuss, but I guess I hadn’t thought about from the point of view you would have… how much it would such for everyone to turn to you when that uncomfortable to talk about thing comes up…
I freaking hate the feeling of tip toeing around something almost as much as all those faces turning to me!
As if it’s your job to be an expert on race and all things to do with “your race” (lol what a concept!), but we literally do expect that of people… but it’s a catch 22… it’s pretty white around me… 83% white county, so just statistically it’s not common to have a black voice in the room, never mind if they’re comfortable enough to be honest, all I can do is rely on them to speak for themselves and then believe it, right? I think it is, but that puts insane pressure on others to basically speak up for “all black people” when they really are just speaking for themselves.
It can really be confusing to me, but I have trouble understanding humans altogether and require people to be far more direct than they’re usually comfortable with…
It’s all very high stakes, and that sure makes conversation tough, that and all the bad faith actors that just want to score a point or virtue signal
As a young service worker in a very quickly developing city I often wonder where I'm supposed to live and how I'm supposed to find community. The answer seems to be that I'm not
Na bruv you just need that sigma grindset. Completely repress all personality and become a mindless drone for 40-50 years* and one day you might be the one on top exploiting everyone else**!
*if you're lucky, but chances are you'll work until you die
**no you won't
@@SpoopySquid live 50 km away from your workplace.. commute 4 hours everyday.. and you might be able to afford a one room apartment beside some estuary or something.
I'm sorry spirit hawk. So many of us are in the same boat. One of the worst outcomes of our current society is how broken and scattered community is, next to, obviously, the housing issue. It's hard finding your tribe, or a place to thrive without killing something about you. I hope you make it.
Charleston, South Carolina.
@@Cooliofamily Wish this wasn't such a widespread problem... I'm in Meridian, Idaho
“You guys hang out at the Biggie mural?” Is such a good line omg
What if we kissed under the Biggie mural? 🤔😏😳
Heard it and scrolled through the comments to know I wasn’t the only one that laughed out loud
I'm just not sure how to react to real entrepreneurs unironically reenacting the villain's main exposition monologue from Luke Cage. Do they know they're doing it? If so, did they understand that Mahershala Ali was playing the BAD GUY? Little guy is watching like "I sure hope that pesky Luke Cage doesn't spoil this hard working businessman's club, I sure hope his sister gets elected okay."
27:07
@@asterix71c what if.. we kissed at the biggie mural... and we were both gentrifiers 😳
I know that calling shameless capitalists "ghouls" has gotten pretty cliche at this point, but these hosts fit just about every definition of undead, soul-sucking monsters. Good lord.
The only people who could grind so hard would be robots or monsters, the soulless who prey upon those within their sphere. Ayn Rand and American Psycho are proverbial bibles, where Glengarry Glen Ross and Wolf on Wall Street are inspirational. Corporatism is an eldritch horror, through and through. Agreed.
tbh I think this comment is a bit cruel to undead soul sucking monsters
@@vampirelibrarian777 yeah, unlike them those people could just decide to not do that
"Depersonalisation" if ever there were a word that describes what corporate society wants for us all it is that one. My word of the decade.
I grew up in a suburban refinery town in the 80s/90s with a big emphasis on conformity. It was such a big part of our teenage parlance and mindset regardless of whether we regarded ourselves as conforming or not. Depersonalization and all things generic cause such a visceral response in me.
Ride sharing and AirB&B were good ideas at first. Giving people rides if they were going the same way as you and renting out your air mattress during big events or for poor travelers just passing through are actually good, relatively speaking. It's just that capitalism doesn't work that way and immediately ruined it.
This is neoliberalism - a katamari ball rolling across every idea ever, converting it to a commodity and spitting it back out. Wanna save the dying species of the world? Well, just buy this mass produced good we made to look like a local made it! It's honestly overwhelming, like trying to fight against a rapids.
And both of them are only good in the first place because of a lack of affordable housing & public transportation. There'd be no need for ridesharing if cities were designed to be walkable and there were an expansive network of trains, buses, and trolleys. No need for rentals either if there were readily available hotels & hostels.
@@guy-sl3kr yea neoliberalism is the pinnacle of selling you the solution to the problem they created
Right?
When I first heard about air b&b, that's exactly what it was. Taking control back. Fuck hotels. Same with ride sharing. Taxis are expensive, we could just help each other.
Didn't take but a year, and capitalism ruined them.
The internet used to level the playing field a little. Now it's just television with extra steps.
Literally the thing I find appealing about airbnbs (besides saving money, which, well, look at it now) is that I'd get to meet locals and get tips on the city and be a host in someone else's house
If I want to spend a lot of money and be in a depersonalised space there are literally hotels? I'm not even knocking down hotels, mind you, that can be a cool experience in itself but... It's a hotel and not a house for a reason lol
Sounds like “stay here” might be the antithesis of “get out”
Lets continue this dialectic - what is the synthesis?
@@atlasveldine6314 One is about people that gentrify, one is about how people get gentrified.
The absolute DISRESPECT of insinuating that Ben's needs any help from some weird gentrifiers when anyone in the area knows that Ben's is an absolute fucking institution. Miss Virginia should be paid reparations immediately.
"The focus on selfies is ironic because this is a show for vampires." Gold.
Growing up in Chicago in the late 80's early 90's, I watched this happen so much; the yuppies would move into an area because they liked something about it, like the local music scene, then complain about the small clubs and little bars being loud as late as 10:30 and getting these places shut down. Lost so many cool little places that served the locals and featured local artists.
Is it just me or does that sound like ... basically colonization?
You move into an area, start changing it to suit your own preferences and financial interests and drive out or exploit the locals.
@@pepi7404 Well... at least the yuppies didn't murder us. I guess that's the "glass is half full" outlook.
*cough* WICKER PARK *cough*
RIP Double Door 😥
rip logan square... used to be cool
this hurts----- in Athens, Greece, so many apartments are being used as air bnb and we can't afford to live anywhere. foreign investors buy up whole apartment buildings (to get the golden visa/ eu passport) and make the whole things air bnb. its tragic
That sounds awful
Second comment I've seen about Athens here.
the rich are gonna have things turn on them soon enough if they keep up at the pace they are going
Same thing is happening in Lisbon. :(
As much as I appreciate the idea of minimal government restrictions imposed on ppl, there's a limit.
Especially when it comes to the wealthy waving their junk around and destabilizing the entire market in one swoop.
Hi, resident of Germany here, just want to pipe in and say it’s not just Berlin that has tenants unions! I know they’re the big exciting city, but the rest of us also have tenants unions. It helps out with a lot of things
You guys have unions? I forgot those existed, we've really grinded them out of American culture and have been choking on the dust since.
I'm from Berlin, grew up in the city center and lived in an soviet style house from '96 to '10. my family immigrated to Germany to escape poverty and were lucky to get an apartment in the city center. I was bullied my poor upbringing, 'rude' attitude and good grades. I internalized hatred by the 'German' kids and their snobby parents. this made me resent my cultural background and working class woman identify for years. nowadays I see these dipshits in the neighborhoo pay 3x the rent for the aparment I grew up in. hope all gentrifiers choke on the hypocrisy.
I had to stay in an airbnb when I went for surgery and my favorite thing about it were the family photos, and how the daughter of the family left me letter saying I could play with her barbies if I wanted.
Personalization is not bad.
Banger video on gentrification!
From conversations with friends, I think a lot of people see gentrification as an aesthetic problem. “Ew, a new highrise” “Ew, modernist architecture” “Ew, a Starbucks replaced the charming dive bar.”
Don’t get me wrong, I’ll take dive bars and brick buildings from the 1920’s over Starbucks and modernism. But displacement and dwindling affordable housing are the real issues. And I think they need to be addressed while still improving these neighborhoods.
The.. The 1920s /was/ the modernist era
Dude, "modernist" architecture is not the enemy. Modernist architecture IS affordable housing and good places to live, at the cost of fashion-driven architecture.
What a lot of people that complain about, when they complain about modern architecture, they SAY "modernist", but point to 90's International Style or post-modernist architecture that are completely in line with neoliberal ideals and goals about maximising profits rather than affordable housing or services.
Modernism is old tho
I think this is just the easy mistake of "modern" vs "modernist".
@@transdayofrevenge exactly, everyone knew what the original comment meant regardless
I'm so glad you showed a picture of the dad from Get Out when talking about being a "Massive fan of Obama", because literally all I could think about was "I would've voted for Obama a third time." when he said that.
Hahahaha
Of course he would Obama was making him that MONEY (of course he'd vote for him a third time, just to be clear lol)
It's amazing how much Get Out energy is coming off a show called Stay Here
One of those cases where they have to call themselves the very thing they aren't
For housing exteriors the Scandinavian palate isn't black, it's vibrant. Think bright reds, powder blues, that sort of thing. Do an image search for Copenhagen and you'll see for yourself.
That woman have no idea what the fuck she's saying lol
Lots of patterns and decorative craftsman elements (woodcarving, trim, and painted patterns) I remember too 🙂☝️ I went in the summer as a teen and I remember seeing everyone's little bright cottages
I don't think I've ever felt physical pain from someone's vibe before but every time the hosts start talking I just feel a sharp pain in my forehead and my vision goes out so
i just feel a quiet rage start building up in me every time I see those stupid glasses
Your vision goes out? Lucky you! You don't have to witness the outcomes of some of these renovations... cannot unsee. 🤢
Wow! You made me laugh but are you okay? :)😬
nobody here is talking about how goats are gentrifying hell
They're eating all the saaaaaaalllllllllltt!!!!!!
I thought goats were Hell natives?
@@averagejoe455 no, thats geese
😀😀😀😀😀
I wanted to like this comment but then it had 420 likes so I didn't
Gotta love when the designer enthusiastically says “Nobody has this!” as a point of pride and the painter just winces.
it's so weird that netflix started up making quality tv shows as an alternative to cable tv and now they're just making the same cable shows but worse.
It isn't weird actually. It's capitalism at work. They rely on more people signing up, and new shows promote new memberships. So they make more, lower effort, lower quality shows. Capitalism doesn't create innovation, whatever they may tell you
As someone who lives in the gentrified finger lakes area, I see more and more homes turn into expensive lakefront property and vacation rentals. The lake can barely be gotten to by kids, families and adults who aren't rich landowners or renters. They'd rather give the lake to rich old assholes
The rich old assholes part hit me like a freight train friend. I'm in Athens, Greece and rbnb has gentrified my neighborhood to death. We were a working class district and I remember all my friends leaving because they couldn't afford the rents that skyrocketed. It's sad to see your community and the spirit of your locale get squashed for tourists and rich old folks.
I'm from the area, and it's nuts to see how wine tourism has completely transformed places like Watkins Glen and the towns between Seneca and Cayuga.
If Tuca Berdie taught me one lesson it's that the only thing that repells gentrification is to make your neighbourhood shitty on purpose (unless they turn the shitty part of town into CityPaTown) aka PLAY LOUD MUSIC, KEEP THE STREETS DIRTY, SPRAY ON PROPETY AND PLACE PEOPLE ON THE STREET THAT ACT LIKE DEALERS (but don't have anything illegal on them in case they do get searched)
Doesn’t everyone buy a $300,000 rental property when they’re 24?
Well not me at least
By my estimations, I won't reach this amount of money before I am at least 240.
So, close enough.
Literally screamed "liar" at my phone when he said the property was losing money. He could sell it now (having done nothing to it) and the property probably would have made more money than most people would make in 10 years!
@@Bojoschannel should have chosen to be born to rich parents!
Wow I have half a year to scrape together $348,000 because I’m in some serious debt from my degree rn ;-;
Explain cultural appropriation without defining it: "The door is a jewel. A real native American aesthetic."
Every clip made me lose a year off my life. I screamed at the MLK assassination question (which is a sentence I never thought I'd say in relation to a home makeover show).
Amazing 10/10
Watching this on MLK Day...
that Peter dude launched a rich person real estate company that he claims is "anti-establishment" like what???
oh my god that is absolutely hilarious.
I bet he uses terms like "paradigm" and "industry disrupter" constantly.
@@idontwantahandlethough he did say that the realtors in his company "March to the beat of their own drums" lol while serving rich ass clients in LA
“Anti-establishment real estate company” sounds like something from a way-too-on-the-nose political cartoon.
Omg he’s like a real life Rent character come to life
A bad reality show that fits your criteria is Inkmaster, the way the competition is set up is so awful to the people they tattoo like its basically designed to make the artists do a bad job when the medium is somebody else’s body. And the judging panel has this really weird middle school clique energy
This sounds amazing in an awful way
Yes, they put the tattoo artists under absurd amounts of pressure in addition to having them work under a time crunch too. It is not good advertisement for most of the artists featured.
They also have constantly changing "rules" about technique, layout, and style of tattoos. One week, bold colours are praised, yet a couple weeks later, someone loses for what's now "gaudy". ...Yet it was legitimately the same thing! (And also not one of those "weekly challenges" or whatever.) The hosts eviscerate the artist and their artwork, putting subjective opinions as fact, and using that dumb cop-out, "This is standard tattooing knowledge."
Also isn't that the one that has Dave Navarro as one of the judges? Like, he doesn't _do_ tattoos or even draw, but idk he _has_ a bunch of tats...? And he's one of the few remaining old GenX/boomer cusp musicians who didn't o.d. on the horse and still looks fit...
@@ze_doodles1885 It puts actual guilt into "guilty pleasure", for sure.
It's terrible to think of all the people with botched tattoos out there bc of this show
My current theory is that Peter is an energy vampire
The way they sell their ideas, especially to the tall one with the retail garage, are like car salesman. They just keep hitting him with things until they start to think it was their own idea. The pressure people are under to agree, the way they strongly underplay the parts that most affect the homeowner, it’s an aggressive sales tactic and it’s sleazy.
I love this surge of leftist readings of television, whether reality, competition, police, or sitcom.
This is one of the best vids you’ve done
Since you really didn't follow up in the connection between Pinochet and neoliberalism, I thought I'd complement that part with a comment.
So after the coup, the dictatorship invited a bunch of Chicago-educated economists to build and economic plan, therefore Chile became somwhat of a playground for neoliberal economics. 45 years later and we have a private pension system, a private water supply, private roads, private electricity production, half of the state-sponsored schools are private, most universities are also private and for profit, even buses are often private. Of course with this came rampant inequality, concentration of power and injustice.
The pressure coocker this country has become exploded in 2019, in what we call "the social outburst" (el estallido social), an unprecedented wave of protests throughout the country that was met by a violent and highly incompetent police force that used a lot of exessive force, leaving hundreds of people with ocular lesions, including many with partial or total loss of sight.
During this crisis, the criminal right wing Piñera governement made a pact with the opposition to finally change the consistution that Pinochet imposed. After a succesfull referendum, a constitutional assembly was formed. We're still waiting to see how it all develops.
Hope this helps to give some more context, love the vids!
Thanks for throwing more detail out there for folks who read the comments. Here's hoping the constitutional assembly works out well for everyone, not just the folks who already have too much, and fingers crossed for a future without any more fucking interventionism.
I'm not entirely certain, but I think BadEmpanada has done a video on that. Possibly more than one.
My Chilean brother, I hope we Colombians can follow the example your beautiful country set and make a change, so we can escape the neoliberal dictatorship we are into. I wish you well.
Me as a brazilian reading bout Chile's referendum: gods I wish it was me...
I hope everything progress well for y'all 🤜🤛
Proof that only right wingers can defeat Neoliberalism, but i hope it won't end in the usual way...
washing dishes by hand being called “not sexy” is sooooo funny to me
The timeline on the window of the historic firehouse ending it in being turned into short term rental felt so sinister omg
Uhhh... My regional town is going through a major housing shortage at the moment & airbnb is one of the biggest factors contributing to it. People are being forced to live in caravans because their rental got sold & turned into an air bnb, it's fucked
I can't wait to never own a home
@@idontwantahandlethough don't do it ever.
-two time home owner
@@idontwantahandlethough I can't wait to actually afford rent
We just keep peddling faster, hoping that our civilization's flying machine is in flight, not freefall. But the ground is rushing toward us, and the craft was never sound. - Paraphrase of Daniel Quinn's Ishmael
Thanks Tina!
omg omg omg, a wild fellow Ishmael fan!
no matter how many times i watch this video the way they convince that guy that the "downstairs retail space" would be okay for a living space because you can open the doors and have random ass strangers walk by while you're eating breakfast never ceases to amaze me
I lost my mind when they showed the black family how to make a bed meanwhile giving white families a good time out while discussing SEO or furniture decisions
I once read in college that AirBnB's 'founding statement' that was supposedly so innovative was to provide short-term accommodation that would let you 'experience the city', something hotels apparently don't let you do. But as this video went over, in practice AirBnB does the opposite
Every AirBNB I’ve ever used has been someone’s investment property. I don’t think anybody actually does the “let people stay in your guest room” thing like the company originally pitched. This show looks fake as hell.
@@cjboyo I've stayed in a guest room in Montréal and thought it was good, but yeah, it seems like most are just apartments the owner has decided to use a professional holiday rental.
Like he says in the video, AirBnB and its ilk are really just schemes to exploit a loophole that allows people to rent out property without any regulations. Otherwise, it's functionally no different from hotels and hostels, except for the side-effect of gentrification.
@@jonathanschweiss316 there was also a huge piece in the NYT awhile back about people straight up running old timey looking slums through Airbnb, I’m talking 30-50 people in windowless warehouses with bunk beds slums
@@cjboyo link?
Thank you for clarifying neo-liberalism, plus how it affects local social services! I'm a social worker and my biggest hurdle...is that privatized, bare bones, and just platitudes to help people. No material support whatsover.
The soviet union went through their own form of neo-liberalism. But since they weren't previously economically liberal, it wasn't neo-liberalism it was just liberalism. America during industrialization was very economically liberal and then we had a mass socialist movement after the great depression. Because liberalism is re-emerging, we call it neo-liberalism.
@@MichelleHell Yes and to be clear, it was liberal restructuring that caused the collapse of the USSR. And America has never had socialism in any meaningful sense. Some concessions were given to the working class after the economy collapsed, but the proletariat has never been in control of the state. The US was capitalist before the great depression and it was capitalist afterwards too.
@@guy-sl3kr What does it mean to have socialism? The US and USSR were both republics. If the USSR has politicians that betray socialism despite having a socialist constitution, we say the USSR stopped being socialist. The qualifier being, whether or not the representatives were acting in the interest of workers. If for a period of time the US with its capitalist constitution had representatives acting in the interests of workers, we still say it was never socialist in any meaningful way? Remember, the red scare in the US was about removing working class politicians from power. What little concessions that were made helped a generation retire on decent pensions. I was a benefactor of my grandfather's pension, something that didn't exist before him and probably won't exist after me. I'd say that's pretty meaningful.
We'll never be able to say that socialism has arrived, like a person from the airport. Society will wake up one day in the future and find itself in within a broader set of economic arrangements that more closely reflect socialist ideals than at any time in history, and therefore people will define their era as socialist, much like we do today with capitalism. It wont look like any single thing either, just like capitalism doesn't look like any single thing. You have businesses of all sizes and scopes, with all kinds of arrangements with their workers, and as workers get the upper hand their means for doing so are tautologically socialist.
@@MichelleHell Socialism describes a society that is ruled by the working class and is transitioning from capitalism to communism. It means more than just having welfare along with _some_ working class representation in politics. You'll never get socialism from working within the confines of bourgeois politics, by design.
I agree that socialism isn't a binary but I disagree that people won't know they're in a socialist system. Historically, socialism has only come after revolutionary struggle by the proletariat and logically, it doesn't make sense for the owning class to give up their rule of the state without a fight.
"The living organism, in a situation determined by the play of energy on the surface of the globe, ordinarily receives more energy than is necessary for maintaining life; the excess energy (wealth) can be used for the growth of a system (e.g., an organism); if the system can no longer grow, or if the excess cannot be completely absorbed in its growth, it must necessarily be lost without profit; it must be spent, willingly or not, gloriously or catastrophically."
“Oh yeah? You guys hang out at the biggie mural?”
Savage.
I work at Westward. You can come get an oyster shucking lesson anytime; the oyster bar is run by two full-time shuckers. Only rich people get lessons from the (former) owner in a closed restaurant.
The intro: "I only like documentaries about the abuses that took place during the documentary itself" 😆
That sounds like it would be the perfect idea for Documentary Now lol
@@idontwantahandlethough it absolutely does.. they need to bring that show back.
that moment at 26:00 about taking the black owner to learn to fold the sheets. jesus christ superstar. what the actual hell. no one in the production team saw this and went ok this is extremely racist. think about that. how no one could see that? i am not black, but it felt so uncomfortable to watch.
Someone might have seen it, but they were too low on the ladder to say or do anything about it.
That guy with the retail garage- that was such an amazing idea! Can you imagine a short term retail/gallery area that local artists and vendors could rent?? Also like who would want to open those doors and eat with people walking by? These 2 hosts are completely out of touch if they thought that was a better idea
Much appreciation for making this video from Florence, Italy, where in the last ten years the city has completely transformed in a giant Airbnb spot, the only exception being resorts and hotels for rich people. Politicians have managed to move the University out of the city center so students don't live here anymore, the quarters where immigrants and working class people used to live were gentrified (internationally) and became full of short rental apartments. And enjoying local street food on the actual street is forbidden. The city I was born and raised in is now a beautiful empty shell for wealthy tourists and it looks like it's only getting worse.
For anyone reding this,
we are the last generation of local that lived in florence. There are none of us left, none of my friends kid will live in the neighborhood where we grew up. We have lost a city, and got nothing in return. All is left is istragram traps.
I moved to Amsterdam this year, a city with a lot of the same problem. The only difference is that now i'm in the profitable part of the gentrification equation.
I hate that i have to play this game.
That scene in the chilli restaurant talking about Obama and MLK reminds me of Bradley Whitford’s character in Get Out
32:08
This depresses me so much. A world that runs on the underpaid and thankless labor of the poorest individuals is still not satisfied and needs also to shuffle away said people for further profit.
This can't be real. I'm convinced that you're somehow willing these shows into existence.
that was how i felt about the glassblowing one
Has anyone ever done a "where are they now" type documentary about these types of shows? It really seems like that's something that should exist.
If you're considering continuing this series, might I recommend extremely dangerous and short-lived Survivor knockoffs like Kid Nation, Opposite Worlds, or Solitary.
Opposite Worlds perfectly fits the theme of "reality shows where their very existence is a crime"
Jenny Nicholson already did a video on Opposite Worlds, I'm not sure if it'd be a good idea to cover that show
By far the largest section of Kid Nation's Wikipedia page (excluding tables) is called "Treatment of children and broader legal implications."
I'm going down a rabbit hole, I'm not sure when I'll come out.
Edit: removed accidental misinformation.
Omg. I loved Solitary. Ahhhh. I vividly remember the guy who trained for months for the show by making the set at home and living in it.
Omg i remember solitaryy
doing dishes by hand? NOT SEXY!
..what an incredibly out of touch thing to say. Can you imagine saying something like that and not feeling like the biggest elitist jerk to ever walk the earth? Good lord
The hostel renovation broke my heart. I hope he was able to make it work without losing any beds or raising the price
"the fact that it was allowed to be made is, itself, an act of violence” had me laughing out loud at work, great job 👍😂
I'm surprised I've never heard the term international gentrification before, that's certainly what's been done to the city where I live. It's notorious in the uk for being like that, but this can also happen to rural areas; Cornwall has been turned into a playground, second homes as far as the eye can see, a colony of politicians and bankers
Yeah it's a big problem, and it's only going to get worse. I don't see anything ever being done to stop it either... just another way that we are all entirely screwed. I really wish I could find a reason to hold onto even the slightest shred of hope... but the deeper I look, the less hope I have. And I can't exactly go in reverse and forget what I've learned. Everything is totally screwed.
Oooh here in Mexico the government, allied with the bourgeois of course, has been for almost a decade now announcing the "pueblos mágicos" (magic towns) in an effort to increase tourism, especially foreign tourism. These are towns all over the country with a lot of history and sometimes a very unique culture, festivals, food, clothing and all. But obviously we brown and primitive people are too weird for the americans and europeans that come here, therefore, gentrification has been the norm in this towns to the point that it feels as fake as disneyland in some places.
One of the promises was also more jobs and they came, just a little closer to slavery than they used to. Organized crime has also gotten their hands in this and the environmental costs in many areas has been enormous.
@@idontwantahandlethough Honestly, I think that's a very sane reaction but one of the best things you can do is get involved in a renters union. There's Acorn in England and we've had a lot of actual success with Living Rent in scotland - there's big picture stuff, but there's lots of very concrete wins that come out of it because we do "member defense" (basically we remind landlords of the law and band together to take legal action if they break it) We don't have enough unions these days and anyone can join a renters union, you don't have to be renting you just can't be a landlord. You get to see the power of solidarity and make a real difference - you get to make landlords scared and save each other so that you can keep on fighting. Second homes/holiday homes are trickier... for that my only advice is take a shit on their doorstep to drive the prices down - make them feel unwelcome with protests campaigns and signs a "hostile environment" if you will ;)
@@experiment35 I wasn't aware that renter's unions were a thing, thank for the information I really appreciate it :) I hope that's a thing here!
And yes, I totally agree! A few years ago I helped organize a rent strike and gather complaints against a glorified slum lord. Luckily he ended up getting the book thrown at him in what is still (I think) the biggest class action lawsuit against a landlord in Minnesota history, couple hundred million dollars (I had no part in that, not my skill set lol). The most surprising thing about all of that was the absurd lengths they went to to try to prevent people from organizing. Which, to me, proves that that's the best path forward. The mgmt company was clearly *terrified* of people banding together to fight back.
Edit: and just so nobody gets the wrong idea, I had a very minor role in all of that. But hey, you do what you can, right?
During the early days of the pandemic I got stuck in Cambodia for 3 months and stayed in a Airbnb. It was half the cost of a hotel and it was a beautiful apartment. It felt so awful to be living in such a beautiful place surrounded by so much poverty. It was a bit eye opening experience for my friends who were with me and I.
I witnessed gentrification in one of the worst ways possible. My university campus is set in a very bad neighboor of my state (mind you I'm not from US). At first, we got very happy by having it open to less fortunate people, who could come and go to our campus, even without being students there. Then, because it was distant, a lot of said students started living there. In about 2 years there were bigger, better buildings, huge franchises like macdonalds... And the original people started disappearing. Then begun the violence, more robbery, deaths, kidnappings and more drugs, those ones to serve the students. Talking to a couple locals I learned things got wat too expensive and dangerous for them and most people in the neighboorhood didn't knew that was a university campus, they thought was just a regular company or something. So we turned everything worse by moving our uni there: we made things more expensive, dangerous and didn't exchange any of that knowledge to the less fortunate.
The encampment raids were very often said to be justified because the residents were refusing to go to shelters or hotels turned into shelters - not taking into account that there’s rampant covid and it’s they’re just not great or even dangerous to be in for many people. My parents for example would just laugh and say it’s against any of my points while just reiterating the points given to them on the news. It fucking sucks and I’m not even super close to Toronto..
smartphone cameras aren't reflex cameras so they're actually totally viable for vampires to use, just saying.
Oh sh-
Interesting! Could you elaborate? I know a bit about vampires, but not too much about cameras (feel free to use all the camera-specific technical terms if it's easier that way, I'll figure it out!)
@@idontwantahandlethough I think they mean that cell cameras do not use reflections to take photos.
And vampires couldn't see themselves in mirrors, since they were typically made using silver, which was the bane of evil.
@@idontwantahandlethough theoretically even reflex cameras are okay, like you can capture vampires on film, no problem, but good luck managing to get a decent shot if you can't see them through the viewfinder. like, because of the mirror....
@@notapplicable6985 wait, what, it's because of the silver? then forget what i said, you can't capture them on film lol
mate you NEED to watch Homes Under the Hammer - one of the many british day time tv shows that is just horrifically about reinforcing the neo-liberal, poor hating agenda.
It's even on our state broadcaster, along side "Saints and Scroungers" (ie which poor people deserve to live?) and a dog the bounty hunter style show about Bailiffs :(
............. Saints and Scroungers...?
This makes me angry
Holy. Fucking. Jesus. Christ. That some of the most dystopian shit I’ve ever heard.
Thank gods the Jeremy Kyle show ended. The UK media landscape is 0.1% less hateful
Homes under the hammer is the most horror like reality show. The creepy host, the 80s soundtrack matched to the script, the dead eyed property developers clawing for profit... It's both fascinating and engaging
At 20:10 you can see precisely when his soul leaves his body as he realizes how much money he dumped on what could have just been a bare art studio
Good catch! You _just know_ he was thinking “So what am I supposed to do now?”
Ben's Chili Bowl is literally on every Washington DC tourism guide ever. They don't necessarily need favors getting traffic lol
25:14 "Anyway, while the construction crew gets to work taking affordable housing off the market" 😂😂😂
You laugh because otherwise you cry
tbh the normal renovation shows suggestion depersonalizing too.. and like personal touches are things like an accent wall or 'inspirational' quotes.
The hostel made me so sad. It's already near impossible to find affordable stays in NYC. I also agree that airbnb is awful, it was cool when people were subletting their spare rooms, now it's enterprises taking away housing. I'd rather just stay at a hotel again.
I’m from northern VA (where a lot of people claim they’re from DC because they work there), and even as someone who doesn’t go to DC as much, that whole bit about the episode in DC annoyed the absolute shit out of me. Even I know the history of Ben’s Chili Bowl (and about how good the chili is) and that segment does that place such a huge disservice.
i watched that show in horror a few months ago and couldn't look away, even as my blood was boiling.
Their use of 'depersonalised' makes my skin crawl.
What the school of Duncanian Thought has taught me, is that neoliberalism is the process where everything and everyone is turned into a free market actor, a homo economicus. It's not when the government does stuff, it is when the government forces everything to operate in some free market paradigm. John probably has a better phrased summary.
Where the sole function of government is the creation and maintenance of markets. In every aspect of life.
@@theideaofevil Yes, that's because the government is always the biggest customer ever since government existed, which means that free market is a meme. It's also why billionaires don't want anarcho-capitalism; because they would lose money.
Here's hoping Gordie recoups his losses and makes the hostel affordable again.
I am having to pause every few minutes to process the sense of dread I feel just having this show explained to me
It's absolutely fucking horrifying what the world around us really is.
The most heinous part of the entire show was the "oh my goodness, oh my goodness" transition music. What in the fuck. That's going to be stuck in my head forever, it's just so bad
I can’t get it out of my head. It’s so bad.
When he first showed it to me i was like, “this has to be a joke”
@@williethejayman its still terrorizing my brain a year later
@@breadsdead haha oh no. It’s back
@@williethejayman oh my goodness 🫢
I watched this with my wife about a year ago, and I had the EXACT thoughts. It was depressing and awful the whole time, thinking "this is why housing is out of reach for new generations"
I haven't finished watching the video, yet, but gentrification is something that happened to me and my dad recently. We'd been living in this apartment building that was first made in the 60s that was starting to fall into disrepair somewhat. It was stupid cold by the windows because they just didn't keep the heat in well anymore, we had a kinda shitty linoleum floor, we'd needed to repair the bathroom on our own twice and get a new toilet, sometimes the water just didn't work as it should (you'd turn it all the way on and it was so weak it was almost a trickle until suddenly for a few seconds, it became like a water canon or something)
And the landlords never turned on the heat very high in the winters (this was in Sweden, where it's not uncommon to get minus 15 degrees celsius days in the winters, and somewhere close to minus 20 degrees at night) so we were basically always cold between late October and Late March, all because the landlords wanted to save money. Also the exterior of the houses just looked god awful. Think beige-grey concrete with corrugated sheet metal covering the balconies-- but not enough, since there was a hole between the sheet metal and the ice cold concrete of the balcony where things were often just dropped.
But anyway, we lived there for 9 years, and then the landlords say they'll be renovating all the apartments, and that they'll be upping rent from 3000kr a month to 5000kr a month (that's basically going from 300$ a month in rent to 500$). Since that would mean me and my dad, as well as many, MANY, of the other low-income families who lived there (mostly refugee families who'd immigrated to escape literal _wars_ ) had to move. They tried protesting against this in court by just refusing to sign the agreement, but the landlords won, and a lot of us had to move.
Thing is, they didn't even fix the major problems. They renovated the kitchens and called it a day, even though the kitchens were NOT something that needed fixing at all in the first place, not to mention the exterior still looks like a prison or an old mental hospital.
Me and my dad luckily found a new place to live, but I don't know what happened to the other families.
on the topic of the toronto encampment evictions is that one of the worse ones, right by where i live was very cearly done in order to clear the park for a tv show to film. absolutely fucking disgusting
That’s so fucking barbaric.
Man this hits the absolute horror that is genifrecation and how it is destroying cities. I grew up in Charlotte, NC and at one time or another lived in almost every neighborhood over my life. I have also seen as gentrification transformed thriving working class and poor neighborhoods into unaffordable condos and boutique stores none of the original residents could afford. And let's not also forget how city councils help this by jacking up property taxes on the few OG home owners, so they are driven out. It has made a bad situation worse and reminds me of all the worst parts of the 80's. Thank you for making this video, the subject has been need and dear to my heart.
In the boat revamp episode, the owners kept mentioning how they had saved up $ for the remodel. So the burden mostly or fully falls on the owners as far as I understand it.
A few of these shows have had lawsuits (like Love it or List it) bc the show didn't finish their work. Like completely left the property in unsafe living conditions and didn't do what was agreed upon, yet used up all the money!
Look it up. The one I'm thinking of, they made it look nice for tv, but the water wasn't even connected, and the electricity wasn't finished. Stuff wasn't completely nailed down and sanded- what a nightmare!
The worst part is, the production company usually doubles as the contractor. The production company doesn't pay extra for an overseeing construction mgr, the production company IS the mgr, which makes it very difficult for the owners if things aren't done well or things break after production leaves. Apparently, there's a history with these shows of shoddy jobs for this exact reason... and it's just bc they want to keep every cent.
I think it's so messed up stations like HGTV don't contribute more to the project as is since they're making a killing off of these shows.
If ppl know this, I think many will still go on trying to get their 15 mins of fame, but should at least be aware of the risk involved.
Did the same thing basically happen to Baltimore in the 70s? White flight, massive expansion of social programs for job creation (with no 💰, leading to some of the highest taxes in the state today), causing the city to mainly focus on rebuilding the areas for tourism; Inner Harbor, Federal Hill, and leaving most of the inner core and west-side to rot. Really enjoying your videos. Seen the channel name before but haven't watched. Subscribed my man, keep it up