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Prudent of you to hide that trash.
Watu masikini 40,000 wavunjiwa Nyumba zao kupisha ujenzi wa barabara ya matajiri
Watu masikini 40,000 wavunjiwa Nyumba zao kupisha ujenzi wa barabara ya matajiri
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Nicxie
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Huyu tukimpa fee structure ya Braeburn School na Brookhouse School si atatoroka na ajidharau
chongchung
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Kama mna ubavu anzisheni battle ya public schools tu, wekeni private schools pembeni tuone tutafika wapi
NairobiWalker
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Please, don't go there. Utaaibishwa bure.đ€Ł
chongchung
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Hiyo battle ilishawahi kuwepo na mkapigwa kipigo mpaka mkapoteana kama unataka match ya marudio, anytime nipo ready
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A hospital so good that your politicians come to get treated or to die at Nairobi Hospital.
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Wacha nichekeđ€Łđ€Łđ€Ł
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Yaani hii gidheri media pia imechapisha kuhusu Tel Aviv ya Israel, same narrative! kisha pale mwisho wanaomba msaada, wanahitaji support đ đ đ , a gutter press! They sensationalize their stories, and pick an angle to suit their perspective, not an objective press.
Tel Aviv has recently overtaken Paris and Singapore as the worldâs costliest city to live in. Photograph: StockStudio/Alamy
Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv
Sun 12 Dec 2021 14.15 GMT
In one of Tel Avivâs most affluent neighbourhoods, a collection of ramshackle one-storey homes with rusting roofs known as Givat Amal Bet still sits in the shadow of the high-rise towers looming above.
Israelâs economic centre has recently been named the worldâs most expensive city to live in, overtaking Paris and Singapore in the 2021 rankings compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). As the Mediterranean cityâs reputation as a global tech hub continues to attract foreign investment, however, and prices for goods and services soar as Israelâs economy makes a strong recovery from the pandemic, locals fear the widening gap between rich and poor is pushing out working-class residents and creating damaging new social divisions.
Tel Avivâs status as the worldâs most expensive metropolis, up from fifth last year, is in large part a result of global inflation and supply chain issues caused by Covid-19 shutdowns. The shekel has gone from strength to strength thanks to the weakened dollar, Israelâs large current account surplus, and foreign direct investment in the tech sector that is expected to reach $30bn (ÂŁ22.7bn) by the end of the year.
Givat Amal Bet is the starkest example of the areaâs changing demographics. During the 1947-48 war surrounding the creation of the Israeli state, the residents of the Palestinian village of al-Jammasin al-Gharbi, which once stood there, fled to avoid the fighting. Newly arrived Jewish refugees and migrants from around the Middle East and north Africa, known as mizrahim, were asked to settle in their place as a buffer against the Arab armies.
High-rise developments tower over the remaining homes in Givat Amal Bet. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum
The displaced Palestinians were later denied the right to return, so the mizrahim stayed and named their new home Givat Amal Bet. Unlike other villages that were absorbed into the municipality as Tel Aviv grew, however, the 40 or so working-class families living there were never allowed to purchase the land on which their homes were built. Despite paying city taxes, they have had irregular access to services such as water and electricity and were banned from altering or upgrading their homes.
The community is still fighting a decades-long legal battle for compensation with development companies, the state and the Tel Aviv municipality, but the last of the neighbourhoodâs residents were forcibly evicted from their homes last month.
âWhen my parents came from Damascus we were asked to settle here to help the state,â said Yossi Cohen, 68, who in November was dragged by police out of the house in which he was born. Israelâs first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had âpromised that we would be rewarded, that we would keep our homesâ, he said. But during the eviction, most of the contents of his house were dumped outside, and a fence now stops anyone from going in.
âWe have fought discrimination from the Ashkenazi [Jews of European heritage] our whole lives. We live on some of the most expensive land in Tel Aviv, so they try force us off, the same way they do with the Arabs.â
Yossi Cohen outside his former home. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum
Two high-rise towers have been built on the edge of Givat Amal Bet since 2005. Three more are planned to meet the demand for office space and luxury apartments.
The EIUâs assessment of Tel Avivâs affordability doesnât even factor in surging local property prices and the shortage of purchasable land, said Asaf Mualem, the owner of the real estate company Menivim Israel. âIn the last two years our prices have become double what you see on shows like Selling Sunset in Los Angeles. We are talking 65,000 shekels [ÂŁ16,000] per square metre,â he said.
The foreign investment is coming from the tech sector, the Jewish diaspora in France and the US and a new influx of money from the UAE, Mualem said: the wealthy Gulf state, along with Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, signed US-brokered peace agreements with Israel in 2020.
âEven rich local people are getting priced out, and itâs not going to stop. I think prices will go up another 30% before the bubble bursts,â he said.
Gentrification is a problem in cities across the world, but Israelâs recent political paralysis has compounded Tel Avivâs housing crisis. No public housing has been built in the last two years, even though 30,000 people are on waiting lists.
âIsrael was founded as a socialist state, but we have abandoned those principles. I do more of a job finding vulnerable people places to live than the entire housing ministry,â said local activist, Riki Kohan Benlulu.
âThey started selling off public housing in the 80s, which is when the gap started growing. Safety nets are the price of civilisation. Now itâs like going to hospital, but instead of giving you medicine, they make you sick.â
Standing outside his former home in Givat Amal Bet, Cohen was not sure what the future holds for the neighbourhood or the residentsâ associationâs battle for compensation.
âWe have a saying in Hebrew, we talk about a land that eats its inhabitants. Well, the ones up there, theyâre the ones who feed on us,â he said, pointing at the tower developments.
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Tel Aviv: poverty and eviction in the worldâs most expensive city
Residents of Givat Amal Bet neighbourhood forced out to make way for further gentrification
Tel Aviv has recently overtaken Paris and Singapore as the worldâs costliest city to live in. Photograph: StockStudio/Alamy
Bethan McKernan and Quique Kierszenbaum in Tel Aviv
Sun 12 Dec 2021 14.15 GMT
In one of Tel Avivâs most affluent neighbourhoods, a collection of ramshackle one-storey homes with rusting roofs known as Givat Amal Bet still sits in the shadow of the high-rise towers looming above.
Israelâs economic centre has recently been named the worldâs most expensive city to live in, overtaking Paris and Singapore in the 2021 rankings compiled by the Economist Intelligence Unit (EIU). As the Mediterranean cityâs reputation as a global tech hub continues to attract foreign investment, however, and prices for goods and services soar as Israelâs economy makes a strong recovery from the pandemic, locals fear the widening gap between rich and poor is pushing out working-class residents and creating damaging new social divisions.
Tel Avivâs status as the worldâs most expensive metropolis, up from fifth last year, is in large part a result of global inflation and supply chain issues caused by Covid-19 shutdowns. The shekel has gone from strength to strength thanks to the weakened dollar, Israelâs large current account surplus, and foreign direct investment in the tech sector that is expected to reach $30bn (ÂŁ22.7bn) by the end of the year.
Givat Amal Bet is the starkest example of the areaâs changing demographics. During the 1947-48 war surrounding the creation of the Israeli state, the residents of the Palestinian village of al-Jammasin al-Gharbi, which once stood there, fled to avoid the fighting. Newly arrived Jewish refugees and migrants from around the Middle East and north Africa, known as mizrahim, were asked to settle in their place as a buffer against the Arab armies.
High-rise developments tower over the remaining homes in Givat Amal Bet. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum
The displaced Palestinians were later denied the right to return, so the mizrahim stayed and named their new home Givat Amal Bet. Unlike other villages that were absorbed into the municipality as Tel Aviv grew, however, the 40 or so working-class families living there were never allowed to purchase the land on which their homes were built. Despite paying city taxes, they have had irregular access to services such as water and electricity and were banned from altering or upgrading their homes.
The community is still fighting a decades-long legal battle for compensation with development companies, the state and the Tel Aviv municipality, but the last of the neighbourhoodâs residents were forcibly evicted from their homes last month.
âWhen my parents came from Damascus we were asked to settle here to help the state,â said Yossi Cohen, 68, who in November was dragged by police out of the house in which he was born. Israelâs first prime minister, David Ben-Gurion, had âpromised that we would be rewarded, that we would keep our homesâ, he said. But during the eviction, most of the contents of his house were dumped outside, and a fence now stops anyone from going in.
âWe have fought discrimination from the Ashkenazi [Jews of European heritage] our whole lives. We live on some of the most expensive land in Tel Aviv, so they try force us off, the same way they do with the Arabs.â
Yossi Cohen outside his former home. Photograph: Quique Kierszenbaum
Two high-rise towers have been built on the edge of Givat Amal Bet since 2005. Three more are planned to meet the demand for office space and luxury apartments.
The EIUâs assessment of Tel Avivâs affordability doesnât even factor in surging local property prices and the shortage of purchasable land, said Asaf Mualem, the owner of the real estate company Menivim Israel. âIn the last two years our prices have become double what you see on shows like Selling Sunset in Los Angeles. We are talking 65,000 shekels [ÂŁ16,000] per square metre,â he said.
The foreign investment is coming from the tech sector, the Jewish diaspora in France and the US and a new influx of money from the UAE, Mualem said: the wealthy Gulf state, along with Bahrain, Morocco and Sudan, signed US-brokered peace agreements with Israel in 2020.
âEven rich local people are getting priced out, and itâs not going to stop. I think prices will go up another 30% before the bubble bursts,â he said.
Gentrification is a problem in cities across the world, but Israelâs recent political paralysis has compounded Tel Avivâs housing crisis. No public housing has been built in the last two years, even though 30,000 people are on waiting lists.
âIsrael was founded as a socialist state, but we have abandoned those principles. I do more of a job finding vulnerable people places to live than the entire housing ministry,â said local activist, Riki Kohan Benlulu.
âThey started selling off public housing in the 80s, which is when the gap started growing. Safety nets are the price of civilisation. Now itâs like going to hospital, but instead of giving you medicine, they make you sick.â
Standing outside his former home in Givat Amal Bet, Cohen was not sure what the future holds for the neighbourhood or the residentsâ associationâs battle for compensation.
âWe have a saying in Hebrew, we talk about a land that eats its inhabitants. Well, the ones up there, theyâre the ones who feed on us,â he said, pointing at the tower developments.
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Haitakaa itokee Kenya ikawa mbele ya Tanzania kwenye huduma za afya, hilo lipo wazi