Posted on 05/02/2023 5:32:41 PM PDT by grundle
Comical isn’t it how they tie themselves up in liberal knots.
a lot of the gentrification of black neighborhoods? they first used to be white neighborhoods
Since Biden wants to spend 40% in underprivileged neighborhoods, I guess, this one does not get the money!
It isn’t really a race issue. Gentrifying developers will move in on a potentially profitable neighborhood regardless of existing racial makeup. It does present problems though to lower income residents, when property values rise. If you are renting, and suddenly your apartment building becomes a target for a takeover, rents will go up and maybe out of reach— you just can’t afford to stay where you are. If you own your home, maybe inherited it, and you’re not that wealthy otherwise, real estate taxes can skyrocket and price you out of your own home.
I drive around such neighborhoods in the Cleveland area, and I enjoy seeing old homes renovated and restored, but I realize that this ‘improvement’ comes at a price that I don’t have to pay.
How dare you turn our crime-ridden ghettos into respectable neighborhoods!
How many historically white neighborhoods have disappeared? I know of several in my city. Unsafe places now.
Why that that newsworthy? Nothing is wrong with a mixed race neighborhood! If a black family that lived in a neighborhood is looking to sell, the fair housing laws makes it that you have to sell to whites.
Why is the writer racist? He wants blacks to sell to blacks and whites to sell to blacks, if I read it correctly.
“Black people now make up only one-fifth of its populace.”
Seeing they are 13% of the general population, I would conclude that they are still being over represented.
EC
I thought all these problems were solved back in 1964 when Lying Lyndon Johnson declared WAR ON POVERTY!
And URBAN RENEWAL!
And Lady Bird Johnson’s effort to BEAUTIFY AMERICA!
So why do these problems still exist?
Let me know when people succeed in holding on to an “historically white” neighborhood.
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.