Let’s talk about Gentrification

[WaveCapsByOscorp™]

Maybe I’m indifferent to this type of exploiting. I see what you trying to say but I see it as normal life shyt. If you got money you can stay if you dnt you and your culture and history got to get out. What’s the issue.

The white folks put people in urban spots now they want that spot back. That what happen when you let people dictate your life

it's OBVIOUS you are. what's worse, is you're spitting rhetoric in support of racist practices that have been going on for years and walking about like



which is why this thread needs to be shut down. i bet you were a fan of all the legal prep work that went into the trail of tears too...

 

[Wildhundreds]

@Wise D'Angelo

Why is it bad for north korea to have nukes?

 

[Black Magisterialness]

So is gentrification really that bad?

Yea poor people get forced out of their homes and whatnot and it seems to have some racial undertones but not really. It really just got to do with the haves and havenots.

I know y’all tired of seeing old broken down crime filled hoods in major cities. It seem to do more good than harm

Cites are usually closer to resources and centers of power. Part of why people are moving back to cities is because utilities are cheaper, taxes are more evenly distributed, public transportation is better...etc. Living in the suburbs is much more expensive...you have to worry about transit, taxes, water/power are more expensive for you because it takes more to support the infrastructure out there....

So you take a more expensive place to live and then you force people who can't afford to live out there into those areas and you basically create slums. Look at what's happened in Paris. That's a perfect example of a vibrant, multi-cultural, economically diverse, expensive, city center and really devastated suburbs. Literally EVERYTHING becomes harder the farther you are from the city center unless you are a farmer.

What needs to be done is income based housing EVERYWHERE. Essentially every new development needs to have a percentage dedicated to low income residents. And for neighborhoods with more houses/home ownership those areas need to be developed with small business.

Gentrification doesn't HAVE to happen. There are only a few cities I can think of that actually could benefit from it and even then the long term effects are devastating.

 

[Wildhundreds]

On a side note...

All them uppity negros who left the city, to get away from their brothers and sisters..

They coming to join you..

 

[Creflo ½ Dollar]

@Wise D'Angelo

Why is it bad for north korea to have nukes?

I dnt see it as bad they just trying to sit at the Nuke Table. If I’m a country I want nukes too. As you can tell we talk to countries with nuclear capability dif. It’s just like having a knife when the bullies up the road all got guns. What’s stopping them from running down on you

 

[Wildhundreds]

I dnt see it as bad they just trying to sit at the Nuke Table. If I’m a country I want nukes too. As you can tell we talk to countries with nuclear capability dif. It’s just like having a knife when the bullies up the road all got guns. What’s stopping them from running down on you

Word...

As far as gentrification is concerned, i tell my people that if we had more unity, this wouldn't happen.

We can't come together around nothing.. Then when we neglect our community, and the man come and take it, we get mad..

When you invest in something with your own money, its harder for outsiders to come take it..

 

[AuntAnniesPretzels]

On a side note...

All them uppity negros who left the city, to get away from their brothers and sisters..

They coming to join you..

People who don’t want their children to be raised around reckless destructive individuals are not uppity negroes

 

[Easy-E]

So is gentrification really that bad?

Yea poor people get forced out of their homes and whatnot and it seems to have some racial undertones but not really. It really just got to do with the haves and havenots.

I know y’all tired of seeing old broken down crime filled hoods in major cities. It seem to do more good than harm

You've done zero research to make this thread with that opinion.

I simple article search would do you the problem with displacing ppl from where they live.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

Nah man, I’ve seen people go through this shyt personally... I can’t get jiggy with this shyt OP. I mean when you got old people who really just keep to themselves getting kicked out in a short amount of time man that’s horrible.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

The whole thing is

WHITE PEOPLE WANT TO MOVE BACK CLOSER TO THE DOWNTOWN AREAS WHERE THE MAJOR EVENTS ARE GOING ON.

Their getting tired of having to drive 20 to 30 minutes away to get downtown and do things..

This

 

[Wildhundreds]

People who don’t want their children to be raised around reckless destructive individuals are not uppity negroes

Funny you say that..

For the same people who left for the burbs, rented out their homes to those same destructive people..

 

[Pazzy]

Can't get jiggy with it

 

[Pazzy]

People who don’t want their children to be raised around reckless destructive individuals are not uppity negroes

Funny because you can find the same crowd in the suburbs. People are people. There's about as much drug dealers, thugs and crazies in the burbs as there are in the hood.

 

[Tom Foolery]

So is gentrification really that bad?

Yea poor people get forced out of their homes and whatnot and it seems to have some racial undertones but not really. It really just got to do with the haves and havenots.

I know y’all tired of seeing old broken down crime filled hoods in major cities. It seem to do more good than harm

It's not about bad or good......It just is.

Intelligent black people will survive.

 

[filial_piety]

So is gentrification really that bad?

Yea poor people get forced out of their homes and whatnot and it seems to have some racial undertones but not really. It really just got to do with the haves and havenots.

I know y’all tired of seeing old broken down crime filled hoods in major cities. It seem to do more good than harm

I don't think it's a bad thing, it's actually a pretty good thing... but it's just business as always.

I mean, these gentrified areas couldn't stay the hood forever. If anyone had been around the East Coast cities 25-30 years ago then you already know.

In my eyes, the people who lived there, didn't invest in it when they had the chance--so someone else saw the potential and made it work.

And I get how people can see the racial angle in it--but it's so much more to it than that. Like you said--it's really about the haves and have nots. For example....Brooklyn has been a haven for gentrification for the past few decades. Williamsburg had a strong white [trash] population in some parts of it forever--they were moved out by more affluent whites too.

Some parts of Fort Green have had a healthy enclave of middle class blacks for decades.. I know quite a few blacks who owned homes in Crown Heights (and now some parts of Lefferts Gardens) who have lived there forever...and now that there's money to be made, they've moved out of the area, but kept the homes to rent to high income yuppies.

ALOT of blacks have gotten into the real estate game here too and are making bank off these gentrified areas....but alot of people from the outside just don't hear about that part of it.

And in addition to all of that, you people with education and some change in their pockets moving into these areas who are from all races, black included. I know, because I myself became a "gentrifier" when I bought into a lower income area that's now being gentrified. I know a few other blacks who have as well.