I’m talking about Charlotte/ uptown and it’s growth pushing people to live in Pineville. Areas along the blue line were poorer black areas were getting knocked down for new development. I left just before the extension to university area started and rents were already rising just on speculation on the northside.
I see what you're saying, but I think that's a mixed bag here. You have your fairview homes, Earl Village, and Double Oaks that were torn down, but then replaced by a mixture of new development and affordable housing.
Then you have areas like Cherry where they were built as housing for the myers park cotton workers and was entirely black for most of the 20th century, then 67% just after the 21st and in the last 3-5 years down to about 37%. But you have as mixture of 800k homes and affordable housing. Had a friend buy a home there
and you still see the mixture.
Then there are your more extremes around Parkwood, NoDA, The Plaza (working from the CC heading towards Eastway) where there is a complete flip. Similar things are happening at brookhill and Brookhill. My dad's church was over there and I spent a lot of my childhood there. For the homeowners, some just turned a blind eye assuming white folks wouldn't move in, for the those living in public housing they just got swept up in the battle between the land owner and the contract running out with the government and not getting the money he wanted to keep it open. Unfortunately once that flips they'll move west fast and you can already see it over in Biddleville.
The reason I say it's a mixed bag is that you can maintain your property and upgrade (most are paid off) or just set the price high and sell for 400k+ or so and move wherever you want around the city.
But the prices certainly have gone up even though I feel they've leveled out for most things except for condos uptown.
That said, I live uptown and I have plenty of black neighbors (mostly younger with 1 kid max) and enjoy it. I grew up off graham so it's still close enough to catch my folks, but I definitely felt a little
at some of the prices moving up here from that side, but It's still less than what was happening in SF.
as long as you have a steady job making a little money, know the city, and know a few people.
I wouldn’t mind moving back to Raleigh but everything about here seems like home 
