Posted on 01/26/2023 11:06:49 AM PST by devane617
Is Atlanta a good place to live? Recent rankings certainly say so. In September 2022, Money magazine rated Atlanta the best place to live in the U.S., based on its strong labor market and job growth. The National Association of Realtors calls it the top housing market to watch in 2023, noting that Atlanta's housing prices are lower than those in comparable cities and that it has a rapidly growing population.
But this is only part of the story. My new book, "Red Hot City: Housing, Race, and Exclusion in Twenty-First Century Atlanta," takes a deep dive into the last three decades of housing, race and development in metropolitan Atlanta. As it shows, planning and policy decisions here have promoted a heavily racialized version of gentrification that has excluded lower-income, predominantly Black residents from sharing in the city's growth.
One key driver of this division is the Atlanta BeltLine, a 22-mile (35-kilometer) loop of multiuse trails with nearby apartments, restaurants and retail stores, built on a former railway corridor around Atlanta's core. Although the BeltLine was designed to connect Atlantans and improve their quality of life, it has driven up housing costs on nearby land and pushed low-income households out to suburbs with fewer services than downtown neighborhoods.
The BeltLine has become a prime example of what urban scholars call "green gentrification"—a process in which restoring degraded urban areas by adding green features drives up housing prices and pushes out working-class residents. If cities fail to prepare for these effects, gentrification and displacement can transform lower-income neighborhoods into areas of concentrated affluence rather than thriving, diverse communities.
(Excerpt) Read more at phys.org ...
I’m thinkin’ I’m smelling the first fetid wisps of “wokeness” seeping into the soon to be wrecked practice of physics.
Everything is Racist!
Ya can’t win. No matter what ya do.
I hate that word “gentrification.”
It's basically saying whites moving into Atlanta are racist for moving into a city that was majority black. LOL
“...it has driven up housing costs on nearby land and pushed low-income households out to suburbs with fewer services than downtown neighborhoods.”
Surburbs are where the services are located. How many Kroger stores are located in downtown Atlanta?
“gentrification and displacement can transform lower-income neighborhoods into areas of concentrated affluence rather than thriving, diverse communities”
So, improvement is now somehow bad?
Something tells me the author of this “piece” won’t be sleeping in a cardboard box tonight.
Some white knight is trying to sell a book? Good for he/him...(snark)
There will never be an end to racism until people stop focusing on race. Everybody needs to knock it off.
That's the year gentrification in many cities stopped.
I bet gentrification isn't an increasing problem anymore.
The author:
“Daniel Immergluck is a professor in the Urban Studies Institute. His research concerns housing markets, neighborhood change, urban poverty and racial dynamics, financial markets and urban form, and community and economic development practice and policy.”
IOW he probably makes a living off of grants studying the ills and racism of our society. so if it ceases to exist (at least in his little bubble) he’s gotta go out and get a real job.....that’s the thing about these people.....they believe our society is perpetually broken.
Yeah, it sucks to be poor.
Wait, wait … from the same article:
… the best place to live in the U.S., based on its strong labor market and job growth.Here's a thought: maybe those who are bitching could take one of those plentiful jobs that are available in this strong job market. Ya think?
Concrete moonscapes for everyone!
Unfortunately, the Marxists have realized that racism sells and they are going to milk it for all it's worth.
The weird thing is that even people like Oprah and Meghan Markle have been convinced that they are victims of racism. When you can use racism to convince billionaires and new duchesses that they are victims, you've got a winning ticket.
First it was racist roads, now racist walking trails. Next.........
I hate to tell the article's author, but adding green features drives up housing prices not only in degraded urban areas but anywhere they're added. It's all part of being "green." Doh!
Then why don't they move to a society they believe isn't perpetually broken? I think North Korea would be a good fit for them.
“Then why don’t they move to a society they believe isn’t perpetually broken? I think North Korea would be a good fit for them. “
I would enjoy being in a room of Progressives and Race baiters just to hear what and where they believe is doing it right.
“I’m thinkin’ I’m smelling the first fetid wisps of “wokeness” seeping into the soon to be wrecked practice of physics.”
I am puzzled why this article is on a physics website, rather than an urban or social planning website.
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