There is no obligation to pay for someone else's housing. That's how simple this is. Feel free to champion a candidate that thinks we should take some people's money to pay for other people's housing.
I never said there is an obligation to pay for someone else's housing. I said provide quality, affordable housing. The affordability part means that land owners and contractors are encouraged to build low to medium income housing that displaced people and other low to medium income families could rent or buy.
My only qualm with gentrification is the displacement of people. If they don't have another option, what are they supposed to do? There are existing housing crises all over the U.S.
I know at least from the black communities that are gentrified (harder than you may think), they go back to the south where it is cheaper for them to live.
That's fine if there is a decent place to go. That isn't always the case, which is what my point is addressing.
The communities they go to in the south are familiar to them. It won't always be the case, it can't be. ---