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Austin Gentrification
Satirical essays and historical gripes about condo creep, redevelopment pressure, and the neighborhoods Austin keeps trading away.
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Posts About Austin Gentrification
Every relevant gripe, memory, and local complaint gathered onto one page.
Tech Bro of the Week: The VC-Funded 'Co-Living Experience' That Used to Be a Trailer Park
They removed 34 affordable housing units and replaced them with 34 luxury tiny homes with a communal kombucha tap.
The South Congress Condopocalypse
South Congress used to be weird. Now it's weird that anyone can still afford to be there.
The East Sixth Glass Tower Invasion
The glass towers crossed I-35 and nobody even pretended to be surprised.
Riverside 'Luxury' Lofts
Riverside Drive used to be where you lived when you couldn't afford anywhere else. Now you can't afford Riverside Drive either.
Rainey Street Remembers
Rainey Street used to be a quiet block of house-bars where you could drink a Lone Star on a porch. Now the porches are in the shadows of 40-story towers.
The Domain Was a Parking Lot
Before it was Austin's shiniest open-air mall-suburb, The Domain was just a bunch of nothing next to an IBM campus nobody talked about.
A Eulogy for the $3 Breakfast Taco
Austin's signature food used to be cheap fuel, not a lifestyle brand.
SXSW Badge Price Timeline: A Brief History of Financial Ruin
From $50 wristbands to $1,900 platinum passes — a love story between Austin and your empty wallet.
Series That Touch This Topic
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Condos of Shame
5 posts
Documenting the luxury boxes replacing everything you loved.
"Where your favorite taco truck used to be."
SXSW Ruin Counter
1 post
Tracking the annual corporate colonization of Austin's weirdest week.
"It used to be about the music. Now it's about the lanyard."
Tech Bro of the Week
1 post
Satirical profiles of the disruptors disrupting your neighborhood.
"Move fast and break rent prices."
Things That Used to Cost $3
1 post
A eulogy for affordable Austin, one price tag at a time.
"Adjusting for inflation and broken dreams."
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