Why the left turn for major metropolises? • FRANCE 24 English

The slumlord/Airbnb model has been a gold mine for speculators and a disaster for everyone who actually needs a home. Housing needs radical change. Centrist liberalism has spent decades dressing up free-market shenanigans as policy while housing becomes increasingly unaffordable. It has failed spectacularly.

I think the biggest issue today is that wages don't keep up with inflation. If costs of living go up 15% and salaries go up 15% no one would complain. In the current trickle down economics, and in a lot of socialist governments in the EU (like germany) you end up spending most of your salary just for tax (income tax + VAT + food tax + fuel tax,..) and bills which increase faster than salary increases. Of course people are unhappy and want change. The wealthy can afford to buy up assets (housing / bonds / shares) which generates pretty good returns. BUT it is returns just for people with enough capital to actually invest. So growth continues, but only for people with existing capital, the taxes and costs trap majority of the people in a cycle of spending everything and not noticing the growth. Of course people are unhappy...

we are being colonized in New York. Native New Yorkers are terrified. Over a million muslims moved in. Young children of rich parents want to rebel and moved from other parts of the country have no connection with New York, except a a desire to destroy us. Native New Yorker and people here 20 years voted for Cuomo over Mandami. They have a different personality than New Yorkers. It was always a place for people who had ambition and a desire to work hard. Now they come here just to tear down those that are successful.

Rents need to freeze like from the money I get per month 67% is to rent and I live on the border of that city... Entire Europe needs the rents to drop like 30%...<br><br>My apartment should be around 30% of what I earn and it was that around 2010-2015, then after 2015 insanity hit and it has now increased by almost 50%, by almost 80% since 2008...<br><br>Like NO wages are increasing at the same rate a construction worker does not earn 1.8 times more now than in 2008 so how can they even assume a person can pay 1.8 times higher rent?!?

Because cities function on civility(civil society), not on thugdom, the modern right&#39;s fiefdom-style leadership, where oligarchs kill, pillage, and assault anyone they feel like with impunity, is fundamentally incompatible with life in a city-state and its values, even if you are a right-winger.

As a cultivated man with a cosmopolitan outlook, I advocate for the idea of ​​an internationalist, cosmopolitan Left that welcomes creative and interesting people from all over the world. Paris is a prime example of this: beyond the great French artists, one need only think of the foreign artists who lived or spent time there—people who worked, studied, exhibited, visited, or resided in the city. Here are a few examples.<br>Van Gogh<br>Picasso <br>Dalí<br>Miró <br>Kandinsky<br>Modigliani <br>Man Ray<br>Robert Capa <br>Henry James<br>James Joyce <br>Eça de Queirós <br>Hemingway <br>Samuel Beckett<br>De Chirico <br>Milan Kundera<br>Chopin <br>Rossini<br>Liszt <br>Tolstoi <br>Turgueniev<br>Puccini<br>Stravinsky <br>Nijinsky <br>Richard Wagner <br>Mozart <br>Prokofiev<br>Verdi<br>Arthur Rubinstein <br>György Ligeti <br>Paganini<br>Bertold Brecht <br>Jim Morrison <br>John Lennon<br>Klimt<br>Oscar Wilde<br>František Kupka<br>Jorge Luis Borges <br>Julio Cortázar <br>Eugene Ionesco <br>Rostropovich<br>Pablo Neruda<br>Garcia Lorca<br>Oliverio Girondo<br>Mario Benedetti<br>Mario Vargas Llosa<br>Octavio Paz <br>Ousmane Sembène <br>Ravi Shankar <br>Gao Xingjian <br>Xu Beihong <br>Zao Wou-ki <br>Foujita Tsuguharu<br>Chico Buarque<br>Sebastião Salgado<br>Walter Salles <br>Ibsen <br>Edvard Munch<br>Alphonse Mucha<br>Thomas Mann<br>Pablo Casals<br>Oscar Niemeyer <br>Heitor Villa-Lobos <br>Atiq Rahimi <br>Amin Maalouf <br>Diego Rivera<br>Ossip Zadkine <br>Alexander Archipenko <br>Jacques Lipchitz <br>Raoul Ruiz <br>Remedios Varo<br>Wolfgang Paalen<br>Tagore <br>Le Pho <br>William Faulkner<br>Miguel Ángel Asturias<br>Umberto Boccioni<br>Magritte<br>Yukio Mishima <br>Kenzaburo Oe <br>Nedim Gursel <br>Reza Deghati <br>Giacometti <br>Leonora Carrington<br>Marlene Dietrich<br>Nizar Qabbani<br>Mahmoud Darwish <br>Fernando Solanas <br>Frida Kahlo<br>Amos Gitai <br>Leonor Fini<br>Ousmane Sow<br>Tamara de Lempicka<br>Omar Sharif<br>Sadegh Hedayat <br>August Strindberg <br>Candido Portinari <br>Nils Dardel<br>Julio González <br>Apel. Les Fenosa <br>Wifredo Lam <br>Lee Miller<br>Max Ernst<br>Tristan Tzara<br>Nazim Hikmet <br>Marie Cermínová(Toyen)<br>Guimarães Rosa<br>Soutine<br>Mohamed Melehi <br>Alfred Basbous <br>Chagall <br>Miles Davis<br>Brassaï<br>Constantin Brâncuși <br>Nureyev<br>James Baldwin <br>Norman Lewis <br>Romare Bearden <br>Merce Cunningham<br>André Kertész<br>Ara Güler<br>Csontváry<br>Josip Račić<br>Gabriel Garcia Marquez<br>Byron <br>Nabokov<br>Czesław Miłosz<br>Buñuel<br>Rilke<br>Mondrian <br>Le Corbusier <br>Jewad Selim<br>Shafic Abboud<br>André Cadere <br>Ahmed Cherkaoui <br>Carlos Cruz-Diez<br>Miodrag Đurić<br>Julio Le Parc <br>Tahar Ben Jelloun <br>Roberto Matta<br>Joan Mitchell <br>Vera Molnar<br>Germaine Krull <br>Wilhelm Lehmbruck<br>Medardo Rosso<br>Judit Reigl<br>Hans Hartung<br>Josef Koudelka <br>Costa-Gavras <br>Krzysztof Kieślowski<br>Isadora Duncan<br>Jesús Rafael Soto<br>Ismael Nery<br>Alejandro Obregón<br>Vicente Manansala<br>Daniel Spoerri<br>Hervé Télémaque<br>Victor Vasarely<br>Yervand Kochar <br>Gherasim Luca<br>Jules Perahim<br>Cícero Dias<br>Maria Martins<br>Tayeb Saddiki<br>Luigi Pirandello<br>Sérgio Camargo<br>Tarsila do Amaral <br>Eduardo Chillida<br>Antoni Tàpies<br>Lygia Clark<br>Maria Helena Vieira <br>Panayiotis Vassilakis<br>Fernando Botero<br>Astor Piazzolla<br>Parviz Tanavoli<br>Danilo Kiš<br>István Hajdu<br>Otto Gutfreund<br>Antonio Berni<br>Tawfiq al-Hakim <br>Augusto Boal<br>István Beöthy<br>Sankho Chaudhuri<br>Isamu Noguchi<br>Marta Pan<br>Philolaos Tloupas<br>Shinkichi Tajiri<br>Baltasar Lobo<br>Adam Henein<br>Ramses Yunan<br>Amy Nimr<br>Victor Brauner