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Author	LongjumpingAttorney5
Comment	Absolutely sick of living in a permanent construction site. I'd stopped going into the city very much before all this virus stuff because the place is just a glass and concrete wasteland of empty shops and shops that will soon be empty. You can't demolish a city into greatness. Glasgow needs to stop knocking down buildings. Just stop completely. The priority should be maintaining and repairing what we have. We've lost so much already. And every time we lose something else a new campaign starts, another round of memories of the good times had in that building and no one ever learns any lesson from that. We demolish homes and small businesses in favour of massive projects, hotels and bank headquarters and then are surprised that the city centre isn't a place people tend to think of as good for living in or running a small business. I'm actually pretty worried about the developments that are happening in Govan. I suspect residents are about to be gentrified out. Govan housing association has been getting very aggressive with tenants unable to keep up with rent this summer - and they have put up the rent - all in the middle of an economic crisis. The traveller families by the river are being forced out. This is to facilitate the big waterfront projects - of which Govan Housing Association are one of the developers - this is going to provide 200 'mid market rent' properties - not social housing but properties that cost significantly more and are available to people earning £21k to £40k. That's not going to be many of the local residents that are already here. The people who WOULD qualify for that housing are more likely the staff for that university project everyone's been getting so excited about - so we're already expecting that the jobs aren't going to go to the people already here. They're going to move out govan residents, move in people to improve the area's average income and employment scores and they're going to live in their own segregated housing development that the existing residents aren't going to be qualified to live in.
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/hvedne/opinions_on_glasgow_skyline_changing_and_the/fyubr02/
Created	Wed 22nd Jul 2020 5:41am
Status	normal ()

Absolutely sick of living in a permanent construction site. I'd stopped going into the city very much before all this virus stuff because the place is just a glass and concrete wasteland of empty shops and shops that will soon be empty. You can't demolish a city into greatness. Glasgow needs to stop knocking down buildings. Just stop completely. The priority should be maintaining and repairing what we have. We've lost so much already. And every time we lose something else a new campaign starts, another round of memories of the good times had in that building and no one ever learns any lesson from that. We demolish homes and small businesses in favour of massive projects, hotels and bank headquarters and then are surprised that the city centre isn't a place people tend to think of as good for living in or running a small business.

I'm actually pretty worried about the developments that are happening in Govan. I suspect residents are about to be gentrified out. Govan housing association has been getting very aggressive with tenants unable to keep up with rent this summer - and they have put up the rent - all in the middle of an economic crisis. The traveller families by the river are being forced out. This is to facilitate the big waterfront projects - of which Govan Housing Association are one of the developers - this is going to provide 200 'mid market rent' properties - not social housing but properties that cost significantly more and are available to people earning £21k to £40k. That's not going to be many of the local residents that are already here. The people who WOULD qualify for that housing are more likely the staff for that university project everyone's been getting so excited about - so we're already expecting that the jobs aren't going to go to the people already here. They're going to move out govan residents, move in people to improve the area's average income and employment scores and they're going to live in their own segregated housing development that the existing residents aren't going to be qualified to live in.