Hey clown sauce remember back in the early 90s when the city was giving grants to folk who was willing to purchase brand new homes in tough areas? Homes was going for $125k at the time… guess what a lot of black folk who worked for the city jumped on those homes.. they had the foresight and now their homes worth damn near 1m… these are black folk I’m talking about, other black folk was like nah I ain’t buying no house in no shyt neighborhood.. now those same black folk crying they getting priced out due to high rent… folk literally scoffed at t he thought of buying a home in the city now everyone want to move back but can’t
There is truth to this...
My family is one of the many people who bought those homes, and they looked at my folks, my uncles, and aunts like we were crazy. For the most part, we did the repairs ourselves and watched as the property values skyrocketed through no fault of our own. Now the Black people and the gentrifiers who don't know any better think we're "bougie blacks" or the "rich"
You know what it's like to be walking in to your house and some fresh of the college campus CAC walks up and asks if the owners are renting?
I'M THE OWNERS....AND NO, fukk OFF COLONIZER
You know how easy it was to get a brownstone in 1992 if two people with double income saved up for ONE YEAR for a down payment? VERY
The City was hiring...MTA was hiring...and yeah like Biggie said...UPS was hiring.
Hell there's still parts of BK where you can do that.
But there's the moving parts that Coli brehs who don't know better (and we can see from that Steph Curry thread) that this city is VERY hostile towards home ownership and property ownerships, especially for the the little guy.
They have sold this city out to developers and rich CACs who like to pretend they're not rich but I know what the rent is in my neighborhood now and if you're not making six figures or living with a roommate, YOU ARE STRUGGLING.
Not to mention, they HAVE priced out all the Black people but you have City Council Members (Crystal Hudson, Lincoln Restler) who like to play this game where they pretend they want affordable housing but really at the end of the day, the only thing getting build is luxury housing for well off Finance and Tech CACs who want to live near the "good schools" in NYC but might not have the connects to get into Dalton or the other elite private schools.
There's a lot of moving parts here...but it's not 100% because cats did'nt buy a home.
The very Dems that Black people vote for CLAIM they are for the uplifting of Black people but they're really for making it easy for developers to build mega developments and making once predominantly Black neighborhoods, more comfortable for the white people moving in. They even stack Community Boards to make it so that the same Black people they claim to speak for, have less of a voice in their neighborhoods.
I have literally seen this myself and am experiencing it as we speak.
Remember this in June, when many of the "progressives" in this city are voting for a bill that would allow citizens (which will be mostly white people) to issue tickets to people for "parking in the bike lane".
That means if you, a person who has lived in Fort Greene, Clinton Hill, Crown Heights, Flatbush, East Flatbush, if you're a person who owns property and let's say you pull up to get groceries out your car, or anything you shopped for, if you're parked in front of your house, where they've for some reason decided there should now be a bike lane, the very CACS gentrifying your neighborhood and displacing the Black people who live there, will be able to walk up and issue you a ticket.
And if you think it's going to be Black people doing this, you are a fool.
