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An International Goose Day Feathursday

Today, September 29, is International Goose Day! Apparently International Goose Day is related to Michaelmas, which is also today, and allegedly a day in medieval times on which many people would pay their rent with a goose? Not sure about that one, but that’s the story! There is also a legend that if you eat goose on September 29 you won’t be short on cash for the following year. 

These geese all come from The Snow Goose by American author and sportswriter Paul Gallico with illustrations by British ornithologist, conservationist, and painter Peter Scott, published by Michael Joseph in an edition of 750 copies signed by the author and artist printed on mould-made paper. Paul Gallico is also the author of other titles you may have heard of like The Poseidon Adventure and Mrs. Harris Goes to Paris. Sir Peter Scott helped found the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), came up with new ways to camouflage boats during WWII, and hosted a nature program on BBC. He also won an Olympic medal in sailing and was British Gliding Champion in 1963 and did a ton of other things (his Wikipedia page is quite interesting!). 

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Lisbon Is Thriving. But at What Price for Those Who Live There?

By Raphael Minder, NY Times, May 23, 2018

LISBON--Not long ago, Portugal’s capital, Lisbon, was a backwater of Europe. Its historical center was dotted with decrepit and semi-abandoned buildings. Some downtown squares were the domain of prostitutes and drug dealers. The city served as a display case for the devastation of Europe’s debt crisis.

Then, in 2011, the country embarked upon a series of difficult steps in return for an international bailout of 78 billion euros, or $92 billion, among them a new rental law that liberalized the capital’s housing market.

Today the city is booming. Tourists stream off cruise ships to fill its squares and ride tuk-tuks up and down the hills. Historical buildings now gleam. New bars and restaurants throb with life.

But who has gained and who has lost in Lisbon’s revival has become a divisive issue for residents, and for Europe, as the continent finally emerges from the lost decade of its economic crisis to see what it has wrought.

Portugal has been a prime exhibit of Europe’s economic recovery. Unemployment has been halved. Exports are booming. Foreign investors have flooded Lisbon. The country even provides buyers of properties worth €500,000 or more the chance for a “golden visa” to reside there.

Yet the monthly average wage is still roughly €850. Market liberalization, combined with a huge influx of foreign money, has helped raise property prices in central Lisbon 30 percent in two years.

“Portugal’s strategy to exit the crisis was all about attracting foreign investment, which solved a major financial problem but is also now creating new issues for our people, like this housing crisis in Lisbon,” said Ana Drago, a former lawmaker and a researcher in urban studies at the University Institute of Lisbon.

The revival of Lisbon feels to many less privileged residents who are being displaced like an abrupt swing from one extreme to the other. On some streets both extremes live side by side.

In the medieval neighborhood of Mouraria, a luxury condominium is being built a few yards away from a renovated building that has become a second home for French and other foreign investors.

At the end of the block, an aged building with narrow balconies has turned into a symbol for Portuguese activists fighting housing evictions, a new phenomenon here. Opposite the house, residents who won a lengthy legal battle to stay have hung a Santa Claus, surrounded by signs showing their Christmas wish-list: affordable housing and social equality.

The arrival of deep-pocketed investors and celebrities like Madonna is “creating housing problems in a few neighborhoods,” said Luís Correia da Silva, a director of Dom Pedro, a resort and hotel company.

“But people shouldn’t forget that nobody wanted to do anything to save these same neighborhoods a few years ago,” he added.

Rodrigo Azambuja used to weave traditional Portuguese carpets. In 2013, his landlord raised his rent from €300 to €1,200. A few months ago, the landlord told him he needed to be out in July.

By August, however, Mr. Azambuja should start getting rental income from a property he bought two years ago, in one of the auctions of derelict buildings held by the city. Rather than making carpets, he will soon be serving wine in a bar that he will open on the ground floor.

“I guess that I’m really living both sides of this story,” Mr. Azambuja said. “To me, the only real drama is that all this change is happening so fast, in a kind of perfect storm, for which many people were completely unprepared.”

Luis Mendes, an urban geographer, is a member of a citizens’ platform called Morar em Lisboa (Living in Lisbon) that has been fighting to halt housing evictions. He worries that Lisbon risks “killing the golden goose” that has made it so attractive to visitors.

“If we’re evicting the old residents and creating gated communities for the wealthy, then what are we going to show tourists who expect to see traditional Portuguese life on our streets?” he asked.

Some residents complain a dual economy has emerged, split between those who deal in property and tourism--and the rest.

Lisbon’s 4.5 million of annual visitors now outstrip the city’s population by a ratio of more than eight to one. About 30 hotels are scheduled to open in Lisbon in the coming year.

The housing squeeze in Lisbon, as well as in Porto, is becoming a political issue for the Socialist minority government of Mr. Costa, who has relied on the support of Communist and other far-left lawmakers to stay in office since 2015.

Far-left politicians want to tighten laws to stop evictions and protect tenants, including those who are over 65 and have lived in their property for more than 25 years.

While rules already exist to protect older residents, they are not ironclad.

After her husband died, Maria Teresa Alves Ramos Mendes, a 79-year seamstress, was told by her landlord that the rent on the apartment where they had lived for more than 30 years would increase several-fold.

She consulted lawyers, who warned that she could lose a costly court battle. So she abandoned the place.

“I really thought that at my age there was no way that I could be forced out of my home, but I was sadly wrong,” she said.

She now lives with her daughter on the outskirts of Lisbon, but the short-term rental market aimed at tourists and developed by companies like Airbnb is spreading even there.

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