So....Black folk have seen their property values go way up, and they sold. And this bad....why? Of course, nothing prevents Black professionals who have money moving in.
... I was gonna go with the fpr er property owners didn’t have to sell. Maybe the money was good?
” Payton says the effect is a loss of Black culture, generational wealth and community.”
Wow, that’s the same thing they don’t want Whites to have. Imagine that.
“Many old homes in the formerly redlined area have already been destroyed by the swift gentrification...”
Well, do you hate the redlining that kept the neighborhood segregated? Or do you hate the gentrification that is desegregating it? The author should pick one and stick with it.
So as soon as the Confederate Memorials and Statues were removed the neighborhoods got all cleaned up? No more urban blight?
I think Babylon Bee could create further satire along these lines. 🤣
Dwarfed by the number of “historically white neighborhoods” that were taken over and destroyed by blacks, crime and poverty.
Every single comment on this article is ridiculing the author of it, and the whiners therein. Big change from just a few years ago on Yahoo “news” articles.
Segregation was the best thing to happen to this country post-Reconstruction and it would have ended organically without the Feds forcefully integrating everything.
I think I get what they are saying ... our neighborhood is gentrifying.
Everyone wants a McMansion on acreage out in the country. They don’t want to smell cow manure, find mud on the roads, have to share the road with big machinery and hear gunfire all weekend long. (Target shooting)
We are the last farm on the mile. Everything else has been sold for McMansions. No more neighbors to help if your cows get out, no neighbor kids to help milk the cows and bale hay ...
WTF is new about this? Seriously. In every generation throughout history, neighborhoods become poor and then go through a revitalization. The only difference is that when poor whites get pushed out of a neighborhood when it gentrified, no one made federal case out of it. The poor whites just packed up and moved.
There is a historically black neighborhood in Albuquerque, which at the time of its building (50’s-60’s) was out of the way of the direction the city was growing. Anchored by a large Baptist church. Even today it is clean, quiet, and well kept up. It still isn’t in an area that will develop further, and I hope it stays nice.
Hey, those folks taking over your neighborhood are your friends...left wing democrats. What’s the problem?
That is how every single community has been treated for about 100 years now.
But if you fretted publicly about how the values and traditions of your community which made you unique were being pushed aside, usually deliberately, you were called every name in the book.
Welcome to the "Global Homo" movement. People think it has to do with homosexuality. It doesn't. It has to do with homogeneity. You will be blended and sifted and slammed together until all individuality is gone.
Community loyalty, pride and culture are being eased.
That is to say, if we don't kill each other first.
Gentrification occurs when the gentry and those who sell real estate to them take advantage of lower property prices in depressed neighborhoods.
Whites live in a white neighborhood. THAT’S RACIST!
Black move in to a white neighborhood. That’s good.
Whites move away from black neighborhood. THAT’S RACIST
All black neighborhood. That’s good and RACIST
Whites move in to black neighborhood. THAT ‘S RACIST
Rinse and repeat to infinity.
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!