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Have Burgess pay for you^

No, this is the wrong mindset to have.

Hating the bronies isnt progressive

Tl;dr - Naysayers rely on anecdotal stories for why gentrification is a bad thing, often ignore the declining crime rate and increased wages and availability of services. Majority of the poor residents stay and are able to improve their lives with the rising economy that whites people bring.

https://www.economist.com/united-states/2018/06/23/in-praise-of-gentrification

GENTRIFIER has surpassed many worthier slurs to become the dirtiest word in American cities. In the popular telling, hordes of well-to-do whites are descending upon poor, minority neighbourhoods that were made to endure decades of discrimination. With their avocado on toast, beard oil and cappuccinos, these people snuff out local culture. As rents rise, lifelong residents are evicted and forced to leave. In this view, the quintessential scene might be one witnessed in Oakland, California, where a miserable-looking homeless encampment rests a mere ten-minute walk from a Whole Foods landscaped with palm trees and bougainvillea, offering chia and flax seed upon entry. An ancient, sinister force lurks behind the overpriced produce. Gentrification is but a more pleasing name for white supremacy, wrote Ta-Nehisi Coates. It is the interest on enslavement, the interest on Jim Crow, the interest on redlining, compounding across the years.

This story is better described as an urban myth. The supposed ills of gentrificationwhich might be more neutrally defined as poorer urban neighbourhoods becoming wealthierlack rigorous support. The most careful empirical analyses conducted by urban economists have failed to detect a rise in displacement within gentrifying neighbourhoods. Often, they find that poor residents are more likely to stay put if they live in these areas. At the same time, the benefits of gentrification are scarcely considered. Longtime residents reap the rewards of reduced crime and better amenities. Those lucky enough to own their homes come out richer. The left usually bemoans the lack of investment in historically non-white neighbourhoods, white flight from city centres and economic segregation. Yet gentrification straightforwardly reverses each of those regrettable trends.

The anti-gentrification brigades often cite anecdotes from residents forced to move. Yet the data suggest a different story. An influential study by Lance Freeman and Frank Braconi found that poor residents living in New Yorks gentrifying neighbourhoods during the 1990s were actually less likely to move than poor residents of non-gentrifying areas. A follow-up study by Mr Freeman, using a nationwide sample, found scant association between gentrification and displacement. A more recent examination found that financially vulnerable residents in Philadelphiathose with low credit scores and no mortgagesare no more likely to move if they live in a gentrifying neighbourhood.

Those who bemoan segregation and gentrification simultaneously risk contradiction. The introduction of affluent, white residents into poor, minority districts boosts racial and economic integration. It can dilute the concentration of povertywhich a mountain of economic and sociological literature has linked to all manner of poor outcomes, including teenage pregnancy, incarceration and early death. Gentrification steers cash into deprived neighbourhoods and brings people into depopulated areas through market forces, all without the necessity of governmental intervention. The Trump administration is unlikely to offer large infusions of cash to dilapidated cities. In these circumstances, arguing against gentrification can amount to insistence that poor neighbourhoods remain poor and that racially segregated neighbourhoods stay cut off.

I know that cops still have to formally arrest dead perps as well.

Just follow the protocol

Sweet! Ill be right there waving that flag then!

Dont get me wrong, I support gay lives but to actually get my ass out of the house and into the streets, I need a drink : )

That username is pretty sweet

If they have beer then I would

Why? Did TB give their games bad reviews?

What the fuck is this?

A gun user saves more lives yet again.

Fuck da police?

How about, don't break the law.