Posted on 02/06/2023 4:06:36 PM PST by KingofZion
In the 20th century, “White flight” transformed many American cities as White people moved in droves from urban centers to the suburbs.
In the last decade, that exodus kicked into reverse.
The White population increased between 2010 and 2020 in hundreds of neighborhoods at the center of many large cities, even as it declined almost everywhere else in the country. This influx, which in some cases began before 2010 but has accelerated and expanded, has brought about new upheavals, making some of the country’s biggest urban cores feel increasingly unrecognizable to longtime Black, Hispanic and Asian residents.
Some remember when they or their families were forced to live in certain inner-city neighborhoods, restricted by economics or racial covenants from moving to the leafy suburbs. Now many wonder how much integration is really happening between old and new neighbors — and whether there is still room for them in the neighborhoods they call home.
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Some families of color have left of their own accord, opting for larger houses and more open space as suburban America has become more accessible to people of diverse backgrounds. Others have been squeezed out by skyrocketing rents or homeowner fees.
“You have minorities who are looking for more affordable housing, so they’re moving out to the suburbs,” said Derek Hyra, a professor of urban policy at American University.
Experts offered various explanations for the return of White residents to urban cores.
“Some of this is probably disillusionment with the suburban dream, a generation that grew up in the suburbs … wanting to get away, a revalorization of city life,” said Philip Kasinitz, a professor of sociology at CUNY Graduate Center. A decline in crime starting in the early 1990s also probably played a part, he said.
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Whites are always racist.
You point is well taken. No matter what whites do, they are disgusting racists!!
And now they wait for the nonwhites to destroy and ruin them all over again.
You are right, many white people have left cities. These guys are using old information. Young and retired people moved to the cities in the time between 1995 and 2015. The cities had money and safe areas downtown. Young people liked the dating game. But crime has changed all that. The past 5 years as caused a mass exodus. When the next census comes around they will have figured it out.
Whites are the new ‘Ubermenschen’.
the timeframe is important
“between 2010 and 2020”
About 20 years ago the RNC leader wouldn’t have dared set foot in her ‘hood.
I remember a time when few whites would dare walk north of H St NE if they didn’t have on a blue uniform.
I remember when neighborhood folks tried to scare me about a murdered woman on M St. NW around 9th St. I used to do architectural photography.
iirc the globalist goal is to migrate people from the suburbs to the cities. the same goes for corporate workplaces. ultimately people will live in high density city centers, in high rise condos and apartments. they will not own autos. they will take public transportation or bicycle everywhere they need to go (including vacations). in the liberal urban planning view, suburbs will become the new ghettos because no one will want to (or be able to afford to) live in suburbs— perhaps another way of saying that laws and rules will be passed such that the suburbs become prohibitely unsafe and/or expensive in which to live. the trend fits well with the so-called green new deal which adopts goals that parallel these goals.
White people have flocked back to city centers - and transformed them
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This is a ridiculous title. It read something to the effect:
White Liberal Hipsters Are Gentrifying Black Neighborhoods In The Cities Because They Can Undercut The Black Families When Their Property Taxes Go Thru Tue Roof……Then Transforming These Neighborhoods Into The Whitest Neighborhoods Where No BIPOCS are allowed unless they’re like Don Lemon
A lot of those whites are fags.
Only parts of these major cities have gentrified and in places like mid to lower Manhattan, parts of Brooklyn, DC, Boston, Chicago north shore and other places have been gentrifying for more than 30 years.
If you look at Paris, London, Barcelona and major cities of Europe, this process has gone on even longer. It’s mostly wealthy liberal whites top 5% wealth that are creating these wealthy enclaves.
Years ago there were working class living in Paris but they migrated out to the suburbs for cheaper housing years ago.
The White population increased between 2010 and 2020 in hundreds of neighborhoods at the center of many large cities,
A decline in crime starting in the early 1990s also probably played a part, he said.
They are using old and outdated information. Those trends have reversed lately.
Well, Yes…..
I will say this, if you ever want to make money in real estate in flipping houses in depressed area, find a gay guy that flips houses in these areas. You’ll make a fortune I watched them do it in multiple neighborhoods in Atlanta.
They find a neighborhood, send in some gay couples to be the pioneers. They tolerate some car and home break-ins, but eventually the black folks leave because they don’t want to live around the gay guys and more gay guys move in. Then some lesbians move in.
Once things clean up and get safer, the white, liberal hipsters and liberal couples move in.
Then, eventually the liberal families move in.
All the while, home prices go up with each sale and more black folks are forced to move.
I simply can’t imagine ever wanting to live an urban environment. It has to be utterly soul-crushing.
So I guess we get demonized either way? 🙄
Sounds like the science fiction novel Gladiator-at-Law, by Frederik Pohl and C. M. Kornbluth. Well worth reading if you haven't.
You mean the people who built them to begin with?
I came to DC in 1979 and have always lived on Capitol Hill. The Hill used to be a lot ... well, let’s say “more exciting” ... than it is today. Every neighborhood has its own story. The Hill never crashed and burned entirely because it is very centrally located, convenient to downtown and has several major job centers right here. It was, however, embattled and therefore affordable. I bought when it was inexpensive. Gentrification has been good to us.
What has happened on the Hill is happening across the city. Why? Brutal commutes, that’s why. Older, central neighborhoods start to look a lot better when you are spending a majority of your nonwork, waking hours sitting in gridlock, and when your weekends are spent running the errands that you couldn’t do during the week because of your commute.
The price of living in DC for middle and upper middle class families, in most neighborhoods, has long included private school tuition. We now have a slowly increasing scattering of public schools that have turned the corner, due to gentrification. People are now moving to the Hill and paying $1,000,000, give or take, for small rowhouses in order to be inbounds for two of our elementary schools. A few neighborhoods in Northwest have the same thing going on.
DCPS overall is still a disaster area, but it is not the complete wasteland that it used to be. The last time I saw the stats, about 15 percent of DC K-12 students were in private schools. Regular public schools and charters split the remainder almost evenly. We already have gentrification on steroids. If we ever vouchered the schools ... well, I don’t know what comes after “on steroids.” Warp speed? We have young families with kids going to Urbana for the schools and commuting in on I-270. Or going to Woodbridge or Stafford County and commuting up I-95. Or going to Haymarket and coming in on I-66. Hahahahahahahaha. DC’s affordable housing today is in far Northeast or close-in PG County, much of it along the Anacostia River corridor, which is an incredible resource that I had not fully discovered until I started riding my bike up the Anacostia River Trail. If there are any area freepers who are up for a bike ride, let me know and I’ll show it to you. You will be amazed. There are affordable hidden jewel neighborhoods all over the city. The main arterial roads often look terrible — old, worn out strip development is still far too common — but if you man up, pop a couple of courage pills and get off the arterial road, you will often find lovely neighborhoods. I’ll show you. There is definitely a chance you will survive.
It takes a long time to live down a bad reputation. A lot of people are operating on bad information. I’ll make a standing offer right now: if any freeper wants his eyes opened, I’ll drive you around the east side. (You don’t need to see the white ghetto west of Rock Creek Park; it’s rich, safe, gorgeous, and you already know that.) When I retired, I decided to explore a bit and fill in the blank spots on my own mental map of the city. I now know corners of the city that I would have regarded entirely as no-go areas not so long ago. And I’ve discovered that even our lower income, working class neighborhoods are clean and well kept. There is ONE common denominator of the really bad areas: public housing projects. LBJ seeded cancers all over the city. To find real destitution and ominous vibes, look for the projects. As those age out, many of them are not being replaced. Close the projects, and the neighborhood rebounds quickly.
Where should the project people go? Most of them actually can and will find places in the regular rental market, and they will be better off for it. Especially if they have a job, even a very low paying job. The ones who will struggle are the welfare lifers and the criminals. Where should they go?
Baltimore. Or Mars. But I’m all for pricing them out of DC, and good riddance.
Exactly. It’s fun to live a sophisticated urban lifestyle when you are young, childless, and can afford tickets to concerts and clubs. Not so when you have children or elderly parents to care for. Then, you need a car and free, angle parking spaces, so you can transport people and the jumbo packs of diapers and equipment they need.
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