Rentification

'rentification'
Perhaps we shouldn't all try to 'buy as investment' , rent out, and rent ourselves.

Video describing how the renting out of properties to short term renters damages community. Neighbors change rapidly and no relationships are created. Renting has an impact on the social quality of neighborhoods. 

A Loss of Community: Neighborhoods across the country are being transformed, as houses built for homeowners are turned into rental properties. Residents of one such community in Memphis, Tenn., discuss the changes.

By SHAILA DEWAN

Published: August 28, 2013

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/08/28/business/100000002382289/a-loss-of-community.html?smid=pl-share

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/08/29/business/economy/as-renters-move-in-and-neighborhoods-change-homeowners-grumble.html?smid=fb-nytimes&WT.z_sma=BU_ARM_20130829&_r=0

Thomas Friedman: The world is flat, The lexus and the olive tree

http://www.thomaslfriedman.com/

Economic Analysis of Decentralized Options for Providing Water Service to Low-Income Settlements

http://idea.library.drexel.edu/bitstream/1860/3171/1/Martinez_Gurian_Cook.pdf

Comprehensive Colonia Study and Plan for Kerr County

http://www.co.kerr.tx.us/commcrt/minutes/2001%20-%202010/2009/August/31412.pdf