How Harringay's Warehouse District is "resisting gentrification"

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Permalink Reply by Maddy on June 30, 2026 at 9:47

Hmm - interesting. My son had a lovely art studio in the warehouses district until rapid rent rises made it totally unaffordable for him. 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on July 1, 2026 at 10:00

Thanks Hugh, for the link to BD article. However it doesn't say much about the gentrification processes and the different parties involved.

Are there  site plans showing different titles?

What are their development plans? What legal planning documents are in place? Are there active groups of developers and their lawyers, of course, involved in the sites? 

One critique of such schemes is that creative artists risk becoming "the shock troops of gentrification" 

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Permalink Reply by Alan Stanton on July 2, 2026 at 9:53

I thought it would be interesting to invite HoL members to suggest one or two of the books / videos / campaigns  they've found helpful in understanding the gentrification process.

For lively writing I'd pick: "Gentrification is Inevitable and Other Lies"  by Leslie Kern.
She is Canadian and begins with her own experience in Toronto.

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Permalink Reply by Eddy on July 3, 2026 at 11:45

The warehouse district is part of the process of gentrification, or to put it more accurately, change. 

Those factories and workshops originally employed white working class people, most of whom lived locally. 

They were sucedded by largely immigrant communities, again low income /poor workers who largely lived locally. 

The warehouse community succeeded them, and they are largely white middle class people from elsewhere. By some conceptions, the very definition of gentrification. 

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