This’ll piss off the gays.
These guys are total idiots.
Yes because we all want our inner cities to look just like Detroit! Let’s segregate. /monumental idiocy
Let’s keep the ghetto as a ghetto by telling Whitey McCracker-Honkey to stay out!
So we need to combat “gentrification”? Mayors should fight against this happening?
As I understand it, gentrification happens when private investors take the investment risk, of going into rundown areas, and revitalizing those areas. Slum areas have been revitalized through the process of gentrification. Small businesses find new business opportunities. Crime goes down, and homeowners move into these areas. All sorts of good things happen from gentrification. At risk of being politically incorrect, a better class of people move in. Arguably, these are new tax paying residents, who are now paying taxes in these cities.
Yes, some people are displaced through gentrification. But what is our alternative? Do big city mayors really want to make it so arduous for investors and developers, that these slums simply stay slums? And why would we want to do that? To make Spike Lee happy that we’re honoring the history of the ghetto and all that??? Really????
There was a story here recently, about Portland. Black activists in Portland protested against a proposed Trader Joe’s store being located in a re-developing area. They were making statements about what types of people go to Trader Joe’s and what changes they feared, if a place such as Trader Joe’s opened in their community.
It was really amazing to hear such reactions. If the races were reversed, it would have been considered blatantly racist to hear what they said about certain types of people and retailers moving into their area. But since it was blacks wanting to preserve a ghetto, it’s all okay.
In Houston the real estate developers pwn the city.
Allegedly even former mayor Lee P-period Brown said that all homes under $250,000 need to be razed since they “cost the city money” (don’t provide enough real estate taxes).
Their “ruining the property values” on Bizarro World apparently.
I suspect it isn’t the money, it’s the skin color they resent.
How dare do they want to replace slums with safe neighborhoods.
SAVE THE URBAN KRAAL SPACE!
SAVE THE CRITICAL HABITAT FOR URBAN FERALS!
Only racist mayors can prevent gentrification of Big Sh*ty slums!
Corporate welfare: the poorer the city, the more the money flowing into city hall from FedGov and the State, into the hands of the abministrators to provide raises and work to connected ones, and themselves. In return, the municipalities support the State and Fed administrations that approve of the scheme, and send the dough.
TRANSLATION: “We must preserve the ghetto.”
If your neighborhood looks like s*it, then don’t be mad when people with money come in and fix it up if they have a better vision.
Part of that process is the natural “eviction” of the people that couldn’t care less.
We can’t have people off food stamps. Shopping at Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s. No siree. We can’t have any of that. Got to keep them people in their rightful places.
America = capitalism.
Capitalism along with supply and demand = gentrification.
Gentrification = keepin’ da man down.
Keepin’ da man down = discrimination and segregation.
Segregation and discrimination = reparations to the current generation for what might or might not have happened to one of their ancestors so far back their parents and grandparents didn’t know them.
Reparations = Trayvon mentality of gettin’ back at crazy assed crackas.
Crazy assed crackas = a sub section buy and clean up scummy run down ‘hoods who sell it to another sub section of crackas who move in, make their payments on time and don’t do drive by shootings on the neighbors’ kids.
Buying up scummy ‘hoods = capitalist America at it’s finest.
Notwithstanding the obfuscation of grandstanding politicians and race-baiters, poor people still do need to live somewhere.