Current Events > Have you personally witnessed gentrification in your area or nearby areas?

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Did the "improvement" outweigh the sense of culture lost?
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By "lost culture" do you mean rampant crime and poverty? Yes, I cry every night at the loss of such wonderful "culture"
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Umm when is having a nicer place to live a bad thing ?
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They're in the process of turning our city's warehouse district into trendy college apartments. I think overall it will be cool for people living there, however I avoid that area now due to all the traffic, and we've lost some great old venues.
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San Francisco Mission District. Its now populated by young privileged white liberals with their coffee shops and small art galleries
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Yes
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I'm gonna miss all the burnt down lots and crack houses and liquor stores with more security than a prison. :(
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iPhone_7 posted...

San Francisco Mission District. Its now populated by young privileged white liberals with their coffee shops and small art galleries

Dude get the fuck out of San Francisco. If being a douchey liberal isn't your thing you're in the wrong city
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Yeah I saw it in this downtown area where I used to live. Apartment complexes have way too much power in my city
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in the city I'm in? no, this is basically living quarters for Intel workers
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YoshitoKikuchi posted...

Did the "improvement" outweigh the sense of culture lost?

I've lived in a ghetto for 20 years, grew up in it. Over the past 3 years, gentrification has slowly started to happen, and it's slowly continuing to happen.
I've seen a lot of improvements. Some obvious ones are less crime and higher property values. It's now actually worth it to walk down the business district here, now that there aren't any bums lying around or anyone to harrass you. A lot of the blight is being torn down. The crime hives known as section 8 housing are disappearing here, and being replaced with market rate apartments. There are actually people my age here to socialize with now, who are decent people and don't belong in a gang. The people moving here actually care about making the neighborhood look good, and making it safe.

Sense of culture lost? If anything, we're getting new cultures. That's what diversity is all about, right? This used to be a 95% black neighborhood, now the culture and demographics are changing to be more inclusive.

If a neighborhood like this is going to be diverse, some people are going to be displaced. Hope your all-white subvision will welcome in these newcomers with open arms. :)
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Fucking wut @ TC

This is why Trump won
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bob742omb posted...

YoshitoKikuchi posted...

Did the "improvement" outweigh the sense of culture lost?

I've lived in a ghetto for 20 years, grew up in it. Over the past 3 years, gentrification has slowly started to happen, and it's slowly continuing to happen.
I've seen a lot of improvements. Some obvious ones are less crime and higher property values. It's now actually worth it to walk down the business district here, now that there aren't any bums lying around or anyone to harrass you. A lot of the blight is being torn down. The crime hives known as section 8 housing are disappearing here, and being replaced with market rate apartments. There are actually people my age here to socialize with now, who are decent people and don't belong in a gang. The people moving here actually care about making the neighborhood look good, and making it safe.

Sense of culture lost? If anything, we're getting new cultures. That's what diversity is all about, right? This used to be a 95% black neighborhood, now the culture and demographics are changing to be more inclusive.

If a neighborhood like this is going to be diverse, some people are going to be displaced. Hope your all-white subvision will welcome in these newcomers with open arms. :)

So where did those people from section 8 housing go? I know in my area they're actually remodeling the section 8 housing but houses the same people that have been living here for a long time.

Most of the gentrification around where I live is happening to middle class areas. They are bulldozing $300k homes to build million dollar ones instead.
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R0N1N187 posted...

So where did those people from section 8 housing go? I know in my area they're actually remodeling the section 8 housing but houses the same people that have been living here for a long time.

Moving to the west side of town, where a lot of white people live. But the white people living there don't like the increase in diversity for some reason, so they're moving away. Where will the white people go?
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Remember the King of the Hill episode on gentrification.
Remember not really giving a fuck then either even though Enrique couldn't afford his home? I remember. This has always seemed like a really racist idea that people tolerate because of massive double standards.
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