“But I watched this little city that I loved transform by the spending of millions on tourism and catering to all things tourist-oriented.”
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Keep Asheville weird: Businesses try to maintain uniqueness amid city’s rapid growth
Small-business owners recognize that they not only add value but are a driving force behind the popularity of this quirky city.
Aesthetic anti-capitalism is hurting Asheville’s working class
“Residential construction hasn’t kept up with population growth, and the resulting scarcity pushes up rents and home prices. This means that the folks who make Asheville weird, its artists and young people, are being pushed out.”
Quo vadis, Asheville? City at crossroads must find its way
“Perhaps slash-and-burn capitalism has succeeded in changing Asheville where Raleigh hasn’t.”
Letter: Biltmore Forest deserves shelter
“It is a fundamental indirect purpose of homeless shelters and housing projects, not only to shelter people directly, but to make the neighborhood more affordable by slowing gentrification and speculation, and yes, even with needles.”
Take me to the river: What’s next in the RAD?
Some predict high demand for residential and retail space, as illustrated by several development projects planned or under construction. There are also fears that rising real estate prices may eventually push out some of the artists who have helped make the RAD a magnet.
Here comes the neighborhood
Law and Order: Special Vandalism Unit
ASHEVILLE N.C.
(HUMOR) Xpressers almanac: What will 2020 bring?
Xpress staffers share their tongue-in-cheek prognostications for the coming year. Asheville-area conspiracy theories, complaints of the gentry, uses for the sinkhole and creative panhandling pitches are all on the list.
Starving Artists
ASHEVILLE, N.C.
Letter: Be aware of tourism’s links to gentrification
“Most urgently, gentrification is creating a demand for buildable lots and houses within the city limits that is invading our historic African-American neighborhoods and displacing lifelong residents who have been here for generations.”
Letter: Don’t give political power to litter and rats
“At the unconsciousness rate we are polluting our planet and the threat of nuclear annihilation by our militaristic world leaders, vermin will probably inherit Earth soon enough.”
Letter: Slowing gentrification via litter
“I hope very much that the shirt I have been wearing almost daily to the soup kitchen is helping slow gentrification.”
Letter: Starvation wages, urban renewal and gerrymandering
“Indeed, policies are still in place actively working against the formation of new communities — zoning rules that forbid local shops that could serve as neighborhood hubs, lot size restrictions that might work for the suburbs, but which result in a farcically low population density in a city; a lack of sidewalks that means you may have to take your life in your hands just to go check up on a neighbor.”
Letter writer: Let’s get realistic about the decay of Asheville’s charm
“Asheville’s charm has been decaying fast, and will cease to be very soon. It is unavoidable. Sadly, it’s just business.”
Letter writer: As in South Carolina, demands of marketplace destroy African-Americans’ historical legacy
“Who will know that Eagle/Market Street was once the heart of Black Asheville?”
Asheville, you’ve changed!
On a recent visit to Asheville, I was surprised at the changes that have taken place in the “Paris of the South" in the year since I moved away. After living here for four years, I came to the conclusion that there was very little about the overall structure [of] Asheville that is sustainable; I […]
