An example of disaster capitalism is when
rents spikes in towns near wildfires, taking advantage of families who need housing immediately, and close to their jobs and schools.
rent-controls are put in place
The cycle of disaster capitalism that companies engage in.
The encampment outside of the Walmart in Paradise, California. In the days following the disaster, the community banded together to provide food, temporary shelter, and medical care to refugees from the fire. This lasted until Black Friday when Walmart attempted to dissolve the camp.
An example of disaster capitalism is when
rents spikes in towns near wildfires, taking advantage of families who need housing immediately, and close to their jobs and schools.
rent-
Disaster capitalism, coined by journalist Naomi Klein (2007), refers to the use of profit-oriented strategies that deliberately take advantage of post-disaster economic and social vulnerabilities (Klein 2007).
In her ethnography of post-Katrina reconstruction in New...Read more
