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To: Pecos

Gentrification - happening in a number of large cities.

When the drive from the suburbs become too long the older inner city is “rediscovered”.

Older buildings are renovated. Those in poor condition are torn down and replaced by new construction. Folks running rental units find it profitable to sell for renovation or replacement.

The poor, usually black, are priced out and must move to other parts of the city where housing prices remain low.


4 posted on 10/29/2014 4:05:55 AM PDT by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: PeteB570

The college needs land to build new dorms and other builings. When my son was attending back in 2010 over 50% of students were forced to live off campus in slum areas. Minorites rule at Temple.


11 posted on 10/29/2014 4:16:30 AM PDT by Clean_Sweep
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To: PeteB570

Here in NJ that is happening along the Hudson River as money flees NYC. The displaced poor blacks aren’t moving to other parts of the city, though (those are already taken by foreigners); they are being steered towards Pennsylvania. When you live on public assistance there is no need to be near jobs and schools...


14 posted on 10/29/2014 4:21:28 AM PDT by kearnyirish2 (Affirmative action is economic warfare against white males (and therefore white families).)
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To: PeteB570

Which makes this an economic issue, not a racial issue - except that black Americans have suffered more under the current administration than under any other president. Therefore, if it a racial issue, it lies at the feet of the President.


29 posted on 10/29/2014 8:19:50 AM PDT by Pecos (That government governs best which governs least.)
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a niece and her "partner" recently bought a very updated three story home in south Philly....and they get an 8 yr forgiveness of their property taxes....they're place is worth well over $300,000 and they pay about $800 a yr in property tax....

as far as Temple, I can only say that my brother went there with his dtr to see about attending and he was so upset about the surroundings he refuses to let her go to college there..

30 posted on 10/29/2014 8:42:42 AM PDT by cherry
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