You could run it as a housing coop with a residents' committee, but if it got too big the feds would prove disparate impact
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How do the Chinese keep everyone else out of NYC's Chinatown? How do the Orthodox Jews keep everyone out of Kiryas Joel?
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"chinatown" (the cantonese-speaking section NW of east broadway usually what's meant) started to gentrify...
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...awhile ago. also there is a thing of cantonese landlords subdividing apartments and packing fujianese...
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...migrants into them to the chagrin of cantonese already there
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to keep a place you need landlords united in preferring culture over money, hard because runaway defection
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to *have* a place tho a solution is to keep finding new places after the current one gets taken over
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as evidenced by less infiltrated mandarin area adjacent to cantonese in manhattan, little fujian in brooklyn...
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also legal threat. price discrimination is preferred because it's allowed and approximates desired result
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massive externalities, but landlords don't bear them
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