I’ve never understood the problem with gentrification. People would rather an area remain impoverished and crime riddled?
it does seem like it, doesn’t it?
Big cities love it too. Gets rid of the riff raff to the suburbs. See SF ——> Oakland, Richmond.
The problem is that the area may not be impoverished anymore, but the impoverished people still need to live somewhere. They can no longer afford to live in the neighborhood they lived in for years, because the rents and taxes go up. So, they all get pushed out, often to an even worse neighborhood.
Yes, they would.
Gentrification is the normal and desirable re-birthing of a community; it forces people to act, either for monetary or personal profit. Or, if they can't participate, it forces them to relocate.
The alternative is decay and death spiral: see Detroit.
You can see why poverty pimps and anti-capitalists have a problem with it.
It’s like what Rush said at one time. People want to be around with their own kind. Been that way since time immortal.
It is a reason for leftists to call white people racists. If wealthy black people move into depressed white areas, that's wonderful. When the reverse happens, rich white people move into black ghettoes, it's just another horrible offense against black people by racist whites.
White people moving out of black areas was racist. White people moving into black areas is also racist. You figure it out.