I appreciate the ingenuity in getting the landlords to open the spaces up for free to the program.<p>And I&#x27;d offer that they do deal with what happens if gentrification appears. It would seem to me that the effect requires a critical mass of speculative property and people with money waiting to spend it. Brooklyn had both, and as a borough of one of the biggest cities in the world there are other reasons it&#x27;s inflated so drastically. That&#x27;ll be different from the sort of 50-200k person cities I think they&#x27;re talking bout here.<p>I wonder if gentrification in a lot of the cities in the US will last the way it&#x27;s currently rearing itself (with the exception of maybe NY, SF, Washington DC, where geography is a complication for city expansion).<p>Anyways, I&#x27;ve lived in a few of these sorts of ideal Midwestern cities and would love to see some experiments in this direction.