Just a few pictures from around Pennygången
This is Pennygången, its a
street in Högsbohöjd in western Gothenburg, it also happens to be
the place where I live.
It is a street that is made out of long line of houses and yards, more than 700 homes.
It is a street that is made out of long line of houses and yards, more than 700 homes.
Pennygången was built in
the late 50s as a test before the goverments gigantic housing project
started 1965 and I don't know if it was meant as a temporary thing
or if it was meant to stand. The inner walls are pretty thing and
noise travels a little as it likes between rooms and apartments
despite closed doors, walls or ceilings. But the rent is low and I
like living here.
Ten
years ago, long before I moved in, the entire property was bought by a private company called
Stena Fsatingheter (Stena Housing). Stena have decided to renovate
the entire thing and raise the rent considerably.
By their own calculation a third of the people living here now will
have to move because they will not be able to afford the new rent.
Flying a pice of red
fabric from your window means that you appose the new rent and
demand that no one will have to move.
Gentrification is a big
problem when the city sell out property that we sort of own collectivly to
private companies that force poor people to move further and further
away from the city center.