Is There a Rent Gap?

For me, gentrification is about people with access to capital investing in land. That's the driving force of it and that moves close to what you call the rent gap. I think as a socialist, you have a set of commitments which basically include the idea that working class people can have nice things. So there's definitely something to see if people are incredibly resentful that is displacing them. The problem has been built by sort of a system which builds different kinds of renters together. If we had mass social housing building then these things could cohabit comfortably, heaven forbid.