What people also have to understand is that gentrification not only effects the area being gentrified but the area or areas where the displaced people end up moving to.
Are you saying that elderly people are losers and should move to the ghetto? Really? What you said sounds like something a german would have said about the Jewish people during Nazi Germany.
You can really tell in the comment section what kind of people grew up in comfortable communities when they don't understand the issues of gentrification. But then again, when something doesn't affect you, it's easy to pretend like it's not a big deal.
Here is the difference - when non-whites move into white areas, it is typically in a small number and we are not trying to have everyone there do things our way. The negative aspect of gentrification is forcing other people to take on your culture rather than assimilating into the culture you move into. It is the same outrage that whites cry out when non-whites move in large amount and don't change to fit in.
This video actually made me really depressed, because I see it happening right before my very eyes. I live in Brooklyn not far from flatbush, and I know this will sound some type of way but I'll be very honest. Up until a couple of years ago, every time I saw "new" people in the area I felt really happy because I thought that it meant that there would be more diversity. But I didn't think deep enough, the thing is every time a new person comes in someone has to move out. I didn't understand that until people I knew for most of my life started leaving one by one and the rent started climbing mountains. Now every time I come home and see more new people I am reminded that I won't be able to live there for to much longer. It reminds me of how truly unfair this world is. It was easier to be angry about it years ago, but when it's this close and you know you will lose your home in the next few years... there is just sadness.
It's sad but it's reality. Most people stay the same and never change. They think life will always stay the same. People are mostly followers and worry about what others think. Either change and adapt or simply move where you can afford to live. It's simple but sad.
Mayanime3 you will be able to stay there if you stop looking at the negative and take the steps to get into the income bracket you need to be in to stay there and invest in property.
Path to take back our community from Gentrification: Work harder, force our kids to study hard, go to school, get good paying jobs. Let the white people make the hood better, then move back and kick them out with your checkbook.
Gentrification isn't a strict racial thing... where I'm living now (Stratford, London) there's been a huge influx of high-income Indian/Muslim professionals that have pushed up property values and spurred new cafes, restaurants and shops. It's a natural process of any large city and is impossible to stop effectively. You can't prevent people purchasing property and living where they would like.
***** The dynamic is exactly the same in the UK as it is in the US. It just comes from two very different places. Red lining enacted after the New Deal created zones within the inner cities in which residents ( mostly minorities) were unable to secure affordable mortgages. Banks viewed these neighbourhoods as undesirable for investment. This, combined with segregation and racially restrictive covenants, forced minorities (mostly African Americans) to remain in run down neighbourhoods without having the ability to invest and gain the property capital afforded to white citizens. White flight after the civil rights movement and the desegregation of schools, exasperated the situation further. It wasn't until the late 70's and early 80's when educated baby boomer whites, finding the comforts of the inner city desirable, were able to get loans (mostly from their parents who where now reaping the benefits of home ownership in the suburbs) to by the cheap housing in these previously 'undesirable' neighbourhoods. Job access and wage stagnation in minority groups harmed their chances further. In the UK, mortgage lending wasn't racially charged at all, securing loans in immigrant areas wasn't difficult. this is why Afro-Caribbean and Asian immigrants could by property "straight off the boat", especially because most of them had secured lucrative jobs in the growing healthcare and public sectors during the 1960's and 70's, but job security for subsequent generation has been much more difficult (similar to the plight of Afro-Americans). This job security is also very applicable to working class whites in both countries, turing what was a racial problem in the past into a class problem now. What's common between the two countries is a three pronged attack which is the result of Anglo American economic dominance. First, newly arriving immigrants (asian, hispanic, eastern european, Afro-Caribbean and sub saharan african in the case of the US, and european and Asian in the UK) are much more willing to live in poor conditions for less pay, if it means that they can either save enough to move up or go back home, allowing landlords to exploit their situation and charge exorbitant rents. Two, continuing gentrification, but now from a new class of Yuppies, entrepreneurs and financial professionals having much more available funds then anyone else to invest in multiple properties. Three, banks, hedge fund groups and real estate agents forcibly pushing up the market to create artificial capital (a bubble), trying to offset the losses of the 2008 crash. I tried to make this as concise as possible, but with such a large subject it's nearly impossible. My last point is if you look at markets in which mortgage lending is much more difficult and the rental market is much more controlled (i.e, Italy, Germany, Austria) this problem is nearly non existent.
***** Being choked off? There's racial quotas in the US, its called Affirmative Action, under qualifed blacks who get job and college positions undeserved and under qualified, get grants and scholarships because of white guilt, which in turn makes ungrateful lazy people expecting more and more handouts. You did not build America.
I see both sides of gentrification. 1) People, cities, towns, businesses want to live their lives "well". They think that people who don't have the money that they have are not equal. 2) People being forced out due to this policy cannot see anything other than the fact that it's usually minorities being displaced. So the racism thing will continue without anyone figuring out that there is an actual problem with a lot of the people who share the same background (Latino, Black, etc.) So ask yourselves this? Is gentrification just randomly happening? How in the blue hell is it happening all over randomly? Is it really random or is there a bigger picture going on? I know for a fact that in my town (and mine included), rents went up nearly $300 instantaneously overnight! This is all planned and it starts with politics & business. Think about that the next time you go to vote for your favorite politician who claims to be a voice for you!!! We are all in the minority. Those who have the money, want more money, and more money after that.
That's the thing with gentrification. It's strategic & well-coordinated. They either don't move to the low-income housing units (a.k.a 'the hood/ghetto) or they do move & rent will skyrocket due to rich folks coming into your turf. Logically speaking, shouldn't rent be lower, so that those who are poor can buy products from large corporations?
I am sorry to hear about that, I think what can help is if we invest in the real estate ourselves,(after gentrification) create businesses and invest in ourselves to help. Again I am sorry and I wish this was done better because people are coming in and others are forced to move out....
@@LadyPinkster wtf you are sorry about gentrification but then you talk about investing and making a better place, that's the whole point of gentrification
Alo RGB Culture changes with gentrification bruh, home is no longer home when the CULTURE changes, it also effects businesses usually owned by non blacks, it’s deeper than just “Oh it looks better!” TF?!!
The moment she mentioned race I knew she was going to lose a lot of people and they were going to be stuck on that one thing. How about we look at it in terms of Low Income and High Income. Even though STATs give us the demographics on what races are affect apparently that is way too much of a hot button.
+corytrapper tell that to the white ppl like my dad who were pushed out of Hells Kitchen in the 80's. Ethnic white neighborhoods are the first to go which can be seen in Boston, Philly and in NYC. Gentrification is nothing new and has been going on in NYC for almost 50 years which started out in the East Village in the 1960s. No one even cared when it was happening to the Rican hoods, it's only when it started to effect blacks that cultural Marxists started to give a fuck. gtfo
Well Vitaman,they have to care at least a little or your ass would be serving them sandwiches,Dead or back in Africa. I'll let you chose which one of those are worse.
It's mostly just a bunch of self absorb people on this site. No empathy for people who are struggling just to get by. People like that are always on the outside judging people lives. Would they feel the same way if it were their family member? I don't think so. No one gives a damn about low income working class people. I hope for the ones who are incapable of feeling other people pain that it never happens to you. Most of us are only a paycheck away from poverty ourselves. So stop.
It's because our media has made us so divisive. leading us to believe that whites cannot be poor(Hell Bernie Sanders actually said this in a debate with Shillery) and they(Media) turned any debate about class into one about Race which leads to emotional responses and not logical ones. And naturally any white that isn't actually privileged and well to do should by Human Nature be saying something akin to "F them Niggas" And vice versa etc up and down. It's a sad cycle but it's where we are at.
I live in a city on the come up where gentrification is accelerating. Rent kept going up, so I worked hard and bought a condo, best decision I made. One must adapt to change, the world is constantly changing. The terror birds were awesome but cats and bears replaced them, it is what it is
No matter what you call it...how you explain the reasoning behind it... the good that may come from it...the bad that may come from it... here's what I see as the biggest problem with gentrification... It's one thing for new people (whether those new people have more money...are of a different rate, etc.) ...it's one thing for new people to come into the neighborhood and learn about and embrace the history...embrace and patronize the old-school businesses... befriend the long-term residents...appreciate the mix of residents, businesses, cultures, etc. It's something entirely different however, when the new people come in and think they've 'discovered' something cool...that their mere presence, and that of other people more like themselves, now makes the particular neighborhood a good one...a 'safer' one... It's something entirely different when these new people want to 'curate' the neighborhood they now call home, into their own version of utopia, complete with $5 coffeeshops, doggie day care, etc. If you gentrifiers don't want to be hated so much, you need to work WITH the long-term residents...get to KNOW them...UNDERSTAND them... and patronize the long-standing old-school businesses...
@lisa evers: With whom? Those that come back, parents left in the first place to get away from those that came. The ones that are being driven out now.
lisa evers that is the reason why we have to unify as a people have a great sat passing Us by and if we don't get our self together we're going to become a permanent underclass
lisa evers I tried to patronize a local soul food/Caribbean restaurant, but it was closed, even though the open sign was lit up and the hours said it was supposed to be open.
***** If starting conditions were totally indentical for everyone the result would be the exact same thing for everyone. Having same chances starts with genetics..
starting conditions are not the same for everyone because of free market and lack of social support in society due to governments giving the leg up to companies rather than people/families
My grandparents bought their home here in Inglewood, CA back in the 70s when the neighborhood was nice. They were some of the first Hispanic families to move into the neighborhood. But as more minorities started to move in, crime started to increase. And after the riots of 1993, my grandfather's home was valued at nearly half of what he had originally paid for. Due to gentrification, the property values are starting to increase again. Even if it comes to it that we can no longer afford to live here anymore, my grandfather has the ability to sell the house for a profit later on and move somewhere more desirable. So I can tell you this... gentrification is good for the black and brown homeowners who slaved away to buy a house that continually decreased in value. It's bad for the renters who've been living in the city for a few years, and the thugs who made the city uninhabitable to begin with.
Property values in the South Bay area of L.A. peaked around 1988 then nose dived because of the cutbacks in military spending and all the aerospace layoffs. Lots of people walked away from their homes because they were upside down in the mortgages and no longer had a good paying job to make their monthly payments. Couldn't make their payment, couldn't sell it to pay off the loan equals foreclosure. The market bottomed around 1997 but deals were still to be had until 2000 or so. Places like Inglewood lost more value because potential buyers could find good deals in other neighborhoods. It was very much a buyers market at the time.
IVAN, I THINK GENTRIFICATION WAS A GOOD WAY OUT FOR YOUR GRANDPARENTS BUT NOT FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE ONES WHO HAS INVEST IN THEIR HOME MONEY TIME AND EFFORT AND ALL OF THE SUDDEN COMES THE INVESTMENT GROUP OF CORRUPT INTRUDERS AND GIVE YOU A LETTER WITH TIME LAPSE FOR YOU TO MOVE OUT OF THE PLACE AND THEY WANT TO BUY YOU WITH A MISERABLE CHECK OF FEW HUNDREDS OR IF PERHAPS FEW THOUSANDS AND THEN WHERE ARE YOU GOING AN AFFORDABLE LIVING. THEY TOOK YOU OUT FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME FROM THE PLEASANTLY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU KNOW WELL TO LA LA LAND, JUST TO SATISFY THEIR EGGO AND THEIR POCKETS. SO WRONG SO WRONG.
The real solution is to improve low income areas in a way that helps residents earn a better living. That would be a combination of businesses that offer respectable jobs to a willing labor force, and improvement to the education system so the next generating has a chance of upward mobility. Access to affordable and good quality food is also an important factor to revitalizing an area.
If the education becomes good then people of other areas will want their kids to study there, raising prices, better food in the are makes a better livong, raising prices, paving the streets, lowering crime and creating high pay jobs will raise prices and if the area has a good location then it will most definitely "gentrify"
@@barackobama5559 then that is the problem. gentrification is progress but at the cost of affordable housing. does crime only exist to keep costs down? because victimizing people seems worse that gentrification.
Being in the field that I am in, I hate to admit that most of my fellow friends that are also realtors do not care about poor people. The reason being is because our clients don’t care either. Me & my wife promised we would never displace people but other realtors aren’t so forgiving.
This is happening all over the nation and world. I live in Los Angeles and my family has been evicted due to gentrification and continues to be affected. When Silverlake became the hot place to live, my family could no longer afford the rent once our building was sold and managed by a housing corporation that owned a large majority of properties in the area. Our family had to move to Echo Park and about five years into living here we began to witness the same violent displacement. This is done so intentionally that when the area began to be "revitalized" it was because the city had closed down all the public spaces and community resources, they implemented gang injunctions that disproportionately target youth of color, we saw an influx in businesses that were unaffordable to the people living here such as boutiques, cafes, bars and yoga studios along with the wave of single young white individuals from out of town. This causes immediate displacement and many times these people are so afraid of people of color that they choose to call law enforcement rather than getting to know the people in the community. It's painful. None of the friends I grew up with continue to live here. The schools suffer because the majority of these people do not have children or opt to send them to private schools rather than keeping their children in local private schools. This lack of enrollment affects funding for schools, affecting the children whose families do not have other options. It is painful to see businesses and services in the community go, only to be replaced by businesses that no one in the community benefits from. In fact, they are replaced by huge, aesthetic unpleasing luxury condos that remain empty for years because nobody can afford to live in. The banks are in on it, the council members are bought out by the developers all while they continue to get richer from the violent displacement of poor families.
The narrative that we did nothing to try to improve our communities is false. When the community organized to develop stronger relationships with law enforcement and financial stability many politicians came out to "support". However, they never followed through with the communities demands. In fact, they began to disguise their efforts to bring in other people to the community by organizing events that were geared towards gentrifiers. Echo Park Rising, Sunset Junction and even the Lotus Festival are now tools that are used to continue the gentrification process in Echo Park.
Sara Fizzetts this is the reason why we need to unify other people every other group is passing Us by and if we don't get our self together and put our differences to decide we are going to become a permanent underclass
Though I don't have children, I can understand why affluent white people wouldn't send their children to an underperforming school to listen to Spanish all day, and slow everything down to the speed of non-english-speaking kids.
Mandy Landry that’s so funny that you say that. Research on Bilingualism has proven that speaking two languages strengthens cognitive faculties, improves multitasking and gives individuals the tools to communicate and understand others. It’s unfortunate that speaking Spanish to you is a deficiency. Research has also shown that forcing students to only speak English at school and ignore their home language deters the acquisition of both languages. Furthermore, in Los Ángeles these families have created charter schools to keep their kids in free schools that they control. The way that registration is done is sketchy because they claim it’s on a lottery basis but often times classrooms reflect greater gentrifier populations than those of families who have been here for generations.
Crime has gone down drastically in silver lake. And down in echo park. Luckily due to revitalization and crack downs on really bad gangs. Man it was bad there
K J ya... but everyone lnows that if the gang violence goes downnn... police action goes down... and now theres no one to blame for financial complicity / complacency. :(((((
@@kj475 The main problem is property value going up which screws the original inhabitants of these neighborhoods. These are the last places they can afford and gentrification is ensuring they will live the rest of their lives homeless.
Why is gentrification going on in NYC and in other cities in America? First off the suburbs has a lack of jobs for its highly educated populace. Jobs in the suburbs are extremely limited from low wage jobs of fast food and Walmart, to mid range logistics, and to office parks. When Caleb and Megan come back to the burbs from college, what jobs are they going to get? The only option for Caleb and Megan is to move to the big city to find work where jobs are in abundance and to formulate a career path. In order to combat gentrification in inner city neighborhood, the suburbs might need to urbanize so that suburban folks can remain in the burbs for work and opportunities instead of moving into the city. On the flip side, the cities need to do better with public education, improve talent of their local populace and limit local brain drain from inner city neighborhoods. College educated students from inner city neighborhood end up leaving their neighborhoods either moving to the suburbs or to another region. So far this is the only solution I have that can curve gentrification. Also ethnic white neighborhoods also don't fair well with gentrification. Ethnic white neighborhoods are the first to go which can be seen in Boston, Philly and in NYC. Also gentrification is nothing new and has been going on in NYC for almost 50 years which started out in the East Village in the 1960s
+Benjamin Gibson True. My parents entrusted a former plantation to us but by the time we finished college, and tried to fight city and state government,we would've been bankrupt. We didn't have the high priced lawyer, the money to pay for the every increasing real estate taxes and fight state government mandates (which were installed so that we can legally LOSE) kinda like the banks and their derivative credit default swaps. When they gamble they bet on both sides of the coin causing a win win situation.
yeah, youre a moron. you seriously dont know what happening here. for one its landlords selling properties with residents in em, either causing them to move or paid to move. abandoned properties were once occupied by residents who got kicked out.
Folks don't talk about rural gentrification either. But basically poor people are getting it from all sides. There's just not enough jobs that pay well to support a sustainable working class. The middle class will flock to where they can work. NYC, San Francisco / Oakland, Charlotte, Frisco, Denver.
Jonathan Acevedo well gentrification is violent. look at the fire of the Greenfell tower in London which killed over hundred of people. Austerity cuts as a result of gentrification killed these people.
It is imperialism, but in a different sense. It is no longer limited to white people, but rich people of all colours and creeds storm neighbourhoods and force the residents out. Student gentrification is the worst in my opinion, because they tend to be rich hipsters. These are the same people who will take classes on colonialism and chastise white people, tell you to 'check your privilege etc.' but turn a blind eye to what they're doing to neighbourhoods. If you complain they'll tell you to stop moaning about first world problems whilst they protest for more vegan cafes in your neighbourhood. These people are cancer, destroying communities and displacing locals for soulless establishments.
Reading some of these comments and smh.... So instead of actually LISTENING to what she is saying, looking at the numbers, some of you automatically dismiss the entire point she is making. Gentrification is a THING. There is an actual Websters definition for it and everything. And she isn't giving a whoa is me kind of talk. She is explaining gentrification and also offering solutions. Do you all hear that? I guess you would rather put your hands over your ears and act like you don't hear the truth... #Childish
Kimberly Fluellen It's true, "gentrification" happens. It's just not everyone agrees it is a problem in need of a solution. It's just the reality, and having to move to a less desirable place because supply and demand has resulted in higher prices that previous renters aren't willing/able to pay isn't the end of the world. These are first world problems. A few are inconvenienced but it is an overall net benefit. There is a lot of historic evidence showing how price fixing harms cities. There is a reason so few cities still have rent control laws. Do a quick search for "the case against rent control" in google or on youtube for a thorough explanation of the unintended consequences of rent control.
***** Thank you for your feedback. However, not agreeing it is a problem doesn't make it NOT a problem. All she was doing was giving you the definition, giving you scenarios of gentrification in action, then giving solutions on how to help ease the problem. Once you KNOW better DO better. Not sit here and say, Oh that's just the way it is. Guess what, it doesn't have to be.
Kimberly Fluellen Wonder what she would have to say about demographic changes in places like Los Angeles where some blacks have described it as "low intensity ethnic cleansing" of their neighborhoods by hispanics? I bet her and anyone else won't get a TED talk out of it. Hispanics are victims too. Black victimology does not work on hispanics the way it works on whites. They can't get the media to listen to them and probably can't get anyone to approve a TED talk about the subject. Just move on out to the California desert without a peep.
Kimberly Fluellen "Victimology" is not a recognized word as far as all of the English language dictionaries of the world are concerned. Just like words that have came before it that started being used first and regularly by people before they made it in or was recognized by every English language dictionary of the world . The word or term is used and is recognized. It is also understood for it's meaning. It is also something blacks regularly engage in. Also do a Google search for the word rather than just relying on the spell check feature on your browser because that's not going to give you a definition of the word.
I grew up in a city that became gentrified many years later. What I experienced was that it slowly changed based on economics. At first, it was not rich "white" people moving in. It was normal "white" people moving in, Asians, Haitians, etc. Over time, as this population grew, there was a lot more entrepreneurship in the area. Little cafes and restaurants opened up. A lot of more diverse ethnic restaurants appeared (which I loved to visit). They were small "holes in the wall" type places really, as the owners didn't have the money to open anything too impressive, but in the absence of small businesses prior to this, these places became quite popular. The neighborhood became far more secure over time as well. Areas that were nothing but blocks and blocks of closed store fronts, therefore taken over by drug dealers in ever few blocks and so on as well as prostitutes here and there, suddenly had these small businesses, and people began to populate these places. More income entered the neighborhood and more policing resulted as well. At this point, minorities who owned properties began to sell their buildings to developers who were paying money not seen in this area before. These developers then invested a tremendous amount of income to build impressive condos and apartments. Around this time is when the rents began to increase; social displacement resulted. From my perspective, it was a very gradual process that began in the mid 90's for my neighborhood. Today, it is a like a totally different place.
Some folks hate those who own their home... These same folks like having a landlord... I am a home owner. I am not a rich white guy, I am a Mexican immigrant... I am the face of gentrification... I bought a house which I can afford... I do not have a landlord... Some folks see this as a bad thing... Change the culture of a neighborhood? OK, so we working class Mexicans are bringing our music, food and culture with us... So did the Chinese, so did the Vietnamese... Go ahead and speak out against home ownership (gentrification). Go ahead and speak out against a culture that is different than yours... I am not going to leave my culture behind because you don't like it.. and you don't have to... but it and I are both here to stay. My neighborhood is gentrified. And guess what? We do not have boutiques, fancy restaurants or expensive cafes... And we're ok with that... We (immigrant homeowners) are here to stay!!! You want to pay rent??? Go ahead and give your hard earned money to a rich landlord then...
Sutton is spot on. It has to be distinguished from "development." Gentrification is displacement. It is the conversion of neighborhoods from working class to bourgeoisie. And artists prime the neighborhoods for the process. It is very disheartening. I don't know what to do about it.
+ethan pettit I am so confused about gentrification causing displacement because if you own your home, no one can force you to move. However, most of the people she (woman in the video) is referring to are renters, and I am not one to say it is fair lower income people might have to relocate, but life is not fair. My parents taught me as a child (seriously) "Son life is not fair". When people rent, they are entirely dependent on the mercy of the landlord/property owner, and in America, we're supposed to be a free country. Therefore, being we are a free country we have what's called property rights, and property rights were one of the first concerns our founding fathers had in America (the land of the free). " In Federalist 54, James Madison stated tersely: “Government is instituted no less for the protection of the property than of the persons of individuals.” As Madison later elaborated, property rights are as important as personal rights because the two are intimately connected. The right to labor and acquire property is itself an important personal right and entitled to government protection; and the property acquired through the exercise of this personal right is entitled, by derivation, to an equal protection. As he put it in his “Address to the Virginia Convention”: I am utterly confused by the woman in the video's rhetoric and her apparent racism against European Americans/Caucasians. Currently, I live in an area in the midst of gentrification, and it is great. We have people of all nationalities moving here, Caucasian, Indian, Asian, and more upper/higher income people of color. So her trying to portray gentrification as something the big bad white privileged class is doing. Perhaps she should one read the Constitution, and pay attention to the people moving to these areas. She has an agenda, and she simply wants to make Caucasians out to be the bad guys for taking advantage of an opportunity when it is available. People are business people, and we are going to make deals. It is what business people do, but I feel the woman in this video would like to see revitalization but at tax payers expense. Being someone who leans more toward libertarian I see her idea as merely 'TAKING' from one group of people to give to another.
Duke, there is a strong nativist reaction to gentrification that is racist, that profiles whites as "colonists" and holds that brown and black people of a generation or more standing in the neighborhood have a built-in right to the neighborhood. A lot of that is a kind of a sloppy spinoff of French Marxists like Henri Le Fevre and his doctrine of a "right to the city." The upshot of this argument is that someone is supposed to pay for some people to have housing at below market rate. The idea is dead in the water, no one takes it seriously, it is the yodel of self-pitty and entitlement. All the same, nativism provides a kind of rallying call for a lot of people who are pissed off about "displacement" ... and probably even more pisser off at themselves for not having bought a house 20 years ago when they could have picked one up at auction for a few grand. Willy nilly, if you look past the nonsensical nativist rhetoric, you can still appreciate the candor of this speaker, in as much as she point out that gentrification is a conversion from a working class to a bourgeoise urban culture. And that is historically significant and challenging.
People live where they can afford to live just because someone can only afford to live in that neighborhood doesn't mean they're entitled to live there forever it sounds exclusionary and prejudice to tell someone of a higher income that they can't live in a low-income neighborhood if they choose to do so. This is simply a game of options low income people have one option people with more money have multiple options if you don't like being on the wrong side of the seesaw increase your options.
Thank-you for teaching me because I confused gentrification with improvement, but never knew what it really meant. Now that I am more educated I can form an educated opinion.
Here's what happening in Oakland. Home values goes up, people who own their homes decide that they can sell and buy a nicer house further out in the east bay. The people who USE to live in the bad neighborhoods DO ALSO benefit, you just do not see it because they've sold their homes and moved away.
When about the low-income people that rented homes in that area? They aren't going to walk away with a million dollars, they're just going to be kicked out when the rent spikes.
Dr. Stacy Sutton was my professor and she is highly intelligent and very articulate. She knows her stuff and knows it very well. I truly enjoyed having her as my professor and was honored to have been her student.
Hi Ted, I hope you're doing all right. Can you please pay for CC? Students like me love watching your videos for references for research. I find myself quoting a lot of your speakers. The proper translation of the CC makes it easier to take notes and cite the speakers. Thanks. it will be much appreciated.
I don't know how I feel about controlled rents because I look at cities like San Francisco, and it actually lead to more gentrification. The controlled rents were placed on older buildings, not newer builds, because the city didn't want to deter new buisnesses from building there. So, the old buildings would either: 1) force their renters out by converting their buildings into condos, or 2) completely demolishing the old buildings to build new apartments with no rent control. So, it ended up backfiring. But then I look at places, like Phoenix, and see how obscenely high rent gets there. Mostly from snow birds and rich, foreign students with short term leases for college. It pushed all the locals out... And since those rich people don't stay for summer, it hurts a lot of buisnesses during that season. However, the city is getting more and more residents. Everyone leaving California and Seattle. They are leaving in droves. At one point they had people placed on waiting list, because all the moving trucks were completely rented out. It's possibly gentrification is to blame for all the people moving, but I'm not certain. So, this Ted Talk has left me with a lot of questions. I'll have to do more research. So far, rent control seems like more of a short term solution with pitfalls (not 100% certain on this), but maybe it would work better in combination with something else? I'm wondering what longer term solutions would look like. Universal basic income? Schools that are evenly funded throughout states? Lower cost higher education? Raising minimum wage? Because I'm sure the key is getting money into the pockets of our communities, rather than rely on outside buisnesses/people.
Her entire argument is erroneous. Revitalization does the same thing as gentrification. If a neighborhood's crime rate decrease and attracts more businesses, the real estate market will become lucrative, exactly what gentrification does. There is no way that real estate values will remain the same in her definition of a revitalized neighborhood. Gentrification's big sin is creating value in previously valueless neighborhoods, which is not a terrible thing. Gentrified neighborhoods are safer and more economically prosperous. That prosperity allows a city to gain more revenue to fund developments and programs. Her proposed solution is a conservative one that stymies progress in the name of inequality.
It's becoming a worrying phenomenon also in Europe. People don't realize that it's another terrible sign of wealth is generally concentrating in the hands of an increasingly small elite, everywhere faster and faster.
The following is by no means intended to be racially charged, but I will consider some factual history... The process through which a racial, ethnic group becomes the minority in a neighborhood and is isolated socially and economically, Exclusionary Displacement, is the exact process that caused white flight from the inner cities a generation ago. Very many of these neighborhoods, before they became impoverished and predominantly "black and brown" as she says, were ethnically diverse, among which included "white" ethnic groups like Irish, Italian, Greek, Polish, etc. These ethnic groups were displaced and replaced by the current population. In many cases, gentrification is the RETURN of white ethnic groups to neighorhoods from which they have been displaced years ago. On another note, her concept of Revitalization vs. Gentrification is spotty at best. How exactly does one increase the quality of a neighborhood without increasing the value? If I drop a Turbo V, leather interior, and a Bose stereo system into my car, does it still sell for stock price? Increased money flow to an area can only have the effect of increased property value unless the govt artificially regulates it, which is a separate debate. On the same token, new business and job openings in your neighborhood could be looked at as an opportunity to raise your own socioeconomic standing.
Social justice is blind to generations of good parents who sacrificed their own self-interests in order to give their children a better start, no matter what they had to compromise
Ryan Cowan exactly. Some people just aren't greatful for the situation that their in and always expect more regardless of the facts right In front of their noses.
My immigrant parents sacrificed their own self-interest in order to give me a better material start, no matter what they had to compromise... And one of the things that was compromised severely was all of our mental and emotional health. Social justice means that we should have systems in place that do not require people to sacrifice their health in order to have a stable place to live and a decent future for their children.
I am a gentrifier. I live in the house I own. People against gentrification LOVE paying rent to a rich landlord. They will NEVER attempt at buying a house... they will not even DREAM of buying one... even if they can afford to do so... So let’s look at this... 2 people working the same job making the same money. One saves money over the years and buys a house, the other chooses to buy a fancy car and blow his money. Person 1 is hated for buying a house in a poor neighborhood... person 2 will speak up against people buying a house to live in... Get used to it, if you don’t buy a house, you will always live at the mercy of a landlord...
I am a white gentrifier in an 88% latino hood. Every single resident- and I'm not exaggerating-- has a better, bigger and newer car than mine. $60,000 trucks everywhere. Litters of children. Children are for keeps and they are very expensive! Buy your home and THEN the car you can comfortable afford, one or 2 kids. But you come at me with "I'm being kicked out of my neighborhood" when you drive a BMW and have 3 kids at 26 yrs old, and I'm feeling cold as a stone for you.
I wish she gave any information at all about maybe how we can implement strategies to keep investors and the like accountable for their actions. We should have laws to protect the poor when these situations come in.
I really don't understand the negatives. When whites move out of the neighborhood, and a different ethnicity becomes the majority, they become "havens" for that group. When whites move back in, it's colonialism? Look at the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. It was a Czech neighborhood from the 1860's- 1960's. Hispanics started moving in during the 1960's and now is considered a haven for Mexican immigrants. Now, whites are moving back into the area and it's viewed as if whites are forcibly taking over. People are moving where they can afford it, plain and simple. It was like that for both types of immigrants of the time, and is the same for the young (broke) college graduates looking for work in the city. My point here is that neighborhoods change. It's human nature.
My neighborhood is experiencing gentrification. I like that my neighborhood is getting better, because my neighborhood use to be very ghetto. There use to be gangsters walking around the street and there was a lot of crime. It sucks that low-income people are being displaced. I am glad I came across this video, because now I know there are ways of avoiding gentrification when a neighborhood is being revitalized. Thank you for sharing!!
I don't think you got the concept of what she was speaking it's a big difference of revitalization and gentrification the gentrification is going to kick you out you won't be able to enjoy any of that
Imo the key to revitalization and avoiding gentrification is making sure that the original community members are also benefiting from the revitalization including attending better funded schools and earning higher paying jobs. This elevation would hopefully allow more people who would be displaced to remain
"Fundamentally alter the culture and character of a neighborhood" is what she says defines gentrification. The ironic part is that if you look deeper than 50 years into a particular city's history, take Brooklyn, NY for example, you'll notice that is exactly what ultimately lead to that city's decline. All people are trying to do is to bring it back to what it was before the decline. This is a conversation no one really wants to have. People like Spike Lee like to teach that Brooklyn is, and always was a neighborhood created by African-American culture. There are thousands of Irish, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian etc. immigrants whom would beg to differ. There is no intent in this comment other than to debate the "teachings" of persons like the speaker in the video.
Great talk! I'm trying to understand this topic more and learn about alternatives. This is helpful. I've seen a lot of it in Atlanta and it's frustrating.
The problem with gentrification is the fall of those who need help. People move into these low income areas and it’s almost a mockery of the poor. Why not build up the community by HELPING those who are in need? Creating recreational centers etc. Instead, it’s like the culture has been swallowed and even silenced because of greed and status!
A thoughtful and valuable contribution to a debate going on in many cities and not only in the U.S. Plainly, we in London (England) have important things to learn from the work of Professor Sutton and her colleagues. From this talk in particular, I'd highlight her formulation of gentrification as "a social justice problem". And that we must pay attention not only to the broad picture and statistics, but to the real "lived experience of gentrification" for individuals, families and communities caught up in these processes. Where we live, this second point is vitally important because many of the impacts on individuals and families are private and "hidden".
She chooses not to mention all the previously poor black folk owners who sell those old brownstones for $ millions & then very happily move to cheaper neighborhoods, suburbs or the sunbelt states. They would tell you gentrification has been great for them.
I love gentrification. My real estate team is always looking to buy up property here in Chicago. Our main goal is not money, but bringing a higher standard of living. We have rebuilt numerous decrepit communities into safe, clean well kept environments Resulting in reduced criminal activity and an overall higher standard of living!
Thank you for using the free market to better the world instead of complaining about it. It's not our fault for seeing need for a community and supplying it.
Since low income individuals are the majnority in chicago, they are the biggest market and will be pandered to. So there is no economic incentive to displace them.
gentrification is amazing, but socialist bitches like this girl are too short sighted and too emotional to rationally understand the long terms benefits of it, and of free economic initiative in general
That’s not necessarily true. I live in a gentrified neighborhood and gun shot are still heard. Perhaps it’s less but now you never hear reporting on it because this neighborhood is being sold as “up and coming” and are selling the illusion that crime has been eradicated. Additionally, there are huge homeless encampments all over the city and there has been an increase in small petty crimes. If anything the neighborhood looks worst now that there are homeless camps everywhere but where are these people supposed to go when rent all throughout the county has skyrocketed along with cost of living. How are people supposed to move to cheaper areas? That requires them leaving their jobs for even further uncertainty.
So gentrification is the answer? You can't think of any other possible way we can try to reduce crime and other forms of social violence in neighborhoods?
@@lonettehistoria1663 Are you talking to me? I never said such a thing, can you point out what I actually said that confused you to believe I think gentrification is the answer or are you just putting your own thoughts into my comment?
"When we put gentrification in its proper context and understand it as a manifestation of inequality..." It is not that simple. This is but one aspect of gentrification. You are stripping away the complexities of the issue, narrowing the scope to support your thesis. Your opinion offers valid points. (I am not disagreeing with your message.)
When did she say this was the ONLY aspect of gentrification? When does this narrow the scope, and why is it an issue that her thesis is being supported, an important thesis that is grounded in reality? EVERYTHING SHE IS SAYING IS TRUE.
I'm a victim of direct displacement, n its sad they kicking out families, for community living mofos!!! 4 ppl get together n pay 500 a peice for a $2000 apartment!! What about our families???
Gentrification would be great if the original neighbourhood did not have to move out. Many of them would have already built a life there and been part of the community. Displacement of people is not so important in business, so policy makers should step in when the free market is not compatible with human values. I agree that rent control alone can stifle economic progress in the area, but this could be counteracted by investing in things like neighbourhood centres, better schools, and transport links - the goal being encouraging the sense of community and creating more economic opportunity. The suggestion in the video of using tax from recently revitalised areas to improve poor inner city areas sounds like a good way to fund this extra investment, and is one that is sure to pay out in the long run. I wish Stacey would have spoken more about different kinds of policies to counteract the displacement of people, but still a good talk.
Joseph, i totally agree with you. I was even confused about gentrification!! I sadly never got taught this in high school believe it or not. And now i am starting to understand.
Well there are not a lot of programs. However I am proof. I was an at risk youth and I dropped out of high school. I participated in the National guard youth corps (a 5 month program) and got my high school diploma, joined the military and got a degree. This all happened because there was a program in place to help me get my High school diploma.
If you want to live somewhere that never ever changes go move out to the middle of nowhere. Cities change; a dense population in constant flux. It's inevitable. Adapt or die. It's ridiculous to tell people to not buy something and try to make it nicer.
In the Netherland it's different. We see that white dutch are displaced out of their neighbourhoods. Their home's are taken bij immigrants with different cultures. For the Dutch it's now almost impossible to get an affordable house. One of the effects of the mass immigration to Europe of the last decades.
It's a double edged sword. You can't gentrify for certain reasons, but if you do nothing, then the neighborhood just keeps declining and the poor people stay poor and living in a dangerous area. If people in an area are so against forced gentrification, why not make an effort to do some for yourself? If communities worked together to eradicate crime, drugs, prostitution, then the mark up for gentrification would be less, making it less appealing to investors. I highly doubt anyone actually likes living in a run down neighborhood with crime and gangs? People need to take more pride in the small things they do have. If it is a social issue, the government should be investing in the areas so you can 'gentrify' without displacing current residents. But people in those areas need to learn to take pride in the areas once they are 'revitilised'.
She forgets that Asians are also a big gentrifier. Look at any wealthier neighbourhood and its usually slightly whiter and 2 to 3 times more Asian than the national average.
I wish gentrification would occur in my neighborhood. Id rather have a starbucks than random people hanging out on the streets at all hours of the night.
But you wouldn’t be able to live there after it happens so do you really want it. Like do you not understand what gentrification is. You mean revitalization....
Correction: You'd rather have random people hanging out on the streets at all hours of the night in a different place. Unless you are middle class or above, which means you are indirectly making people suffer the same things you don't want. "I'd rather have a Starbucks than a crackhead, here, you take it."
I have been waiting years for my neighborhood to transition. Slowly but surely, the homeless and druggies are taking their shitshow on the road. And I don't care where, go away.
I am so confused about gentrification causing displacement because if you own your home, no one can force you to move. However, most of the people she (woman in the video) is referring to are renters, and I am not one to say it is fair lower income people might have to relocate, but life is not fair. My parents taught me as a child (seriously) "Son life is not fair". When people rent, they are entirely dependent on the mercy of the landlord/property owner, and in America, we're supposed to be a free country. Therefore, being we are a free country we have what's called property rights, and property rights were one of the first concerns our founding fathers had in America (the land of the free). " In Federalist 54, James Madison stated tersely: “Government is instituted no less for the protection of the property than of the persons of individuals.” As Madison later elaborated, property rights are as important as personal rights because the two are intimately connected. The right to labor and acquire property is itself an important personal right and entitled to government protection; and the property acquired through the exercise of this personal right is entitled, by derivation, to an equal protection. As he put it in his “Address to the Virginia Convention”: I am utterly confused by the woman in the video's rhetoric and her apparent racism against European Americans/Caucasians. Currently, I live in an area in the midst of gentrification, and it is great. We have people of all nationalities moving here, Caucasian, Indian, Asian, and more upper/higher income people of color. So her trying to portray gentrification as something the big bad white privileged class is doing. Perhaps she should one read the Constitution, and pay attention to the people moving to these areas. She has an agenda, and she simply wants to make Caucasians out to be the bad guys for taking advantage of an opportunity when it is available. People are business people, and we are going to make deals. It is what business people do, but I feel the woman in this video would like to see revitalization but at tax payers expense. Being someone who leans more toward libertarian I see her idea as merely 'TAKING' from one group of people to give to another.
+Duke If you are a home owner and a developer wants to put a mall or bistros or a hospital etc where your home is located, the government can force you to move BUT they have to pay you, its called Eminent Domain. em·i·nent do·main the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation. Most people when they sell, its a profit for them however the flip side is in some cases the profit isn't enough to be able to purchase another home in that area. Thats why I think you need to do your home work before you sign on the dotted line to ensure you will be able to purchase another decent home in a decent area. If you are a renter and your landlord see's the neighborhood changing as well as the market rate increasing for rental property, he or she has the right to increase your rent which causes a lot of folks to move for lower rent OR if the property value increases or someone makes the landlord an offer for his property he cant refuse, he will sell and the renters have to move. The only thing with that this is now the neighborhood is SO expensive and the rental market rate has increased SOOO much until they cant afford to live in the neighborhood any longer so they are forced to live (quite often) in a less desirable neighborhood just to afford rent. This is exactly what is happening in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I'm blessed enough financially to be able to afford to stay. Hope this helps!
i love her points. i wish more talks about gentrification go over actionable policies or strategies to combat or even slow gentrification. I'm not sure what I can do to help as it seems a lot of it is addressed via policy change. what can the everyday person do aside from vote to make change happen?
Alright y’all Is there a way that urban renewal/fixing up hood areas really works for everyone? Many times I want to see hoods get fixed up but there’s gotta be a way to do it without screwing people over
Interesting perspective, but she's way off the mark. Gentrification is good for the communities being gentrified. If you own a home in a poor neighborhood that becomes gentrified, then your property values go up. Historically neglected neighborhoods seeing investment is a good thing for everyone. Gentrification accomplishes the things she says she wants: improved housing, attracting businesses, making the neighborhood safe and clean. When a poor neighborhood becomes nice it ceases to be a poor neighborhood and people are lifted out of poverty. A neighborhood that gets nicer will always become more expensive to rent, that is the way the world works.
99% of the people in that audience are probably the culprits behind gentrification hence the smug looks on their faces. This was entertainment for them as well as a way to stay on top of what they know vs what a victim of caucazoid hegemony doesn't know. No doubt they walked away from this "cute" TED talk feeling unthreatened.
Is it really possible to know that ninety-nine percent of that audience in the video listening to Stacey Sutton are the culprits of gentrification? If they are the culprits, I would want them to be exposed to all of the elements of gentrification, especially it's consequences.
jesussaves13 and I don’t think judgement is a thing. That seems like a very human egoic concept. Pure love doesn’t judge, it holds space for you, seeks to understand you and hold you through your pain. It sees how your pain cause you to project that same pain out of fear and ignorance. There is no judgement. You should watch The Shack, and study Love more outside of biblical texts.
It was a good place place for poor or lower income people tolive, but now we build it up and raised prices so high that only rich people can afford to live there, that's gentrification.
ArmiiV Good luck on integrating with ignorant black racists who hate you because of your skin color. You'll learn about it someday if you aren't careful but I hope all goes well for you.
I disagree .. here in my country we've been against gentrification for many years and no development nor progress has been made ... Gentrification hurts but is necessary if not what's the point on seeing your city stay the same for decades ?
As a Puerto Rican from Brooklyn (like that should even matter for an argument), I think gentrification does have some negatives, with bad landlords scamming people out of their apartments and the disruption of the cultural sentiment of a neighborhood etc. But overall gentrification seems to be a good thing. Now people can walk around in a neighborhood without fear of getting mugged. Now you can actually buy food from a decent super market. Now you can take the subway to your station without getting harassed. Now you can walk around at night as a girl and feel safer.
soccerfc Puerto Rican from Chicago (not that it should matter) and I completely agree. People also don’t realize that the people that displace other races mostly are Hispanics. We move into cities like MAD and displace tons of other people
Addressing the situation as a whole, the hidden effects of gentrification are without a doubt harmful. For those who do not have a full understanding of its effects, below is a letter briefly portraying the point I wish to bring across. I had written this letter to be directed toward Michigan Senator Jim Ananich on addressing the issues within Flint, Michigan. Most would assume crime and poverty, but thats prevelant everywhere throughout the country. Gentrification is a very serious but unknown issue that I felt should be brought up..... Here is the just of the letter related to gentrification. *".....Being raised in such a perplexed city, I have witnessed first hand the unjust civil behavior and discrimination directed toward the people within the city of Flint, toward true “FLINTSTONES”. My expertise on these issues includes a wide range of networks from different figures within the city. Having gone to Flint Community Schools for over 7 years, and living in a crime and poverty stricken neighborhood, I witness and experience the lifestyle of any other inner city citizen. Additionally, my mother founded her own 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which primarily outreaches mental health clients, drug addicts, and carriage town recipients. Simply put, the underprivileged welfare recipients. Contrary to that, I live in a neighborhood that is attacked by investors trying to send these underprivileged citizens into exile. I do not find crime nor poverty an issue within the city. Those benefactors occur in any given environment. I, as a young “flintstone”, find the unfair privileges from the 1% and the effects of gentrification to be the realistic and unlawful issue.* *It can easily be identified that people are leaving Flint as their choice because of unemployment and the economy. Yet, the city lacks to realize that they are forcing them out as well, not by choice. In my opinion, I feel regardless of your social status, you should not be discriminated against by corporations and investors. Just because they are homeless, have an addiction, are welfare recipients or have been diagnosed with mental disabilities, does not mean they are incompetent and therefore they should not be taken advantage of. With the renovating and gentrification within the city, a more “friendly” appeal is supposedly given. However, with social outlets in the neighborhood being dismantled, it provides no place for these underprivileged citizens to go. Within my mothers non-profit, these people filled out questionnaires, and the trend seems to be to “kick them to the curb”. Helping assist with this operation, I first hand witnessed, the sweetest and most loving people tell their stories of rejection, based upon their social statuses. These people simply wish for a sense of self-worth. Which the city fails to give them because they are unknowingly presumed to be uneducated, incompetent, and cold-hearted. Left and right, communities are gentrified solely for control. Full steadied races have begun to take over an entire street stretching from Mott park renovations to the once infamous Atwood Stadium. Unfortunately, these renovations apart of their gentrification acts, are serving no purpose in the community. “Where is the logic behind an economically struggling city to sell a stadium, filled with economically exponential potential, to be sold for a mere dollar?” And yet, it is not used for the community in any way. A high school football stadium that no high school plays at. Instead, it becomes an ice rink in the winter, which in reality, has no desire within the inner city population. Empowerment of the people, in my opinion, is what keeps a community going. That said, the egotistical attitude from this 1% of people, does not bring a community together, it divides it.* *I understand life can be a business, but that doesn't excuse tearing a community apart. The Green Bay Packers, an iconic franchise in professional football is a multimillion dollar organization, and yet, is run by the people. Unless the gentrification brings people together, then the community will continue to plummet downwards. The lack of self worth bestowed upon by the 1% will make poverty even more prevalent and add more struggle within our communities. Fellowship can uplift such a catastrophe. However, “if no one is left, then how can you fellowship?”. With no one left, then it results in no community either. Desolate for the people; and yet, prosperous for the 1%.* *Truly, this is now a society issue and no longer a political issue. However, when our own people fail to speak for our city and feel unwanted. It becomes highly imperative to bring attention to.* *Sincerely,* *An uneducated, incompetent, welfare recipient."*
I thing the root cause is that low income people are not being paid enough even the the country as a whole has been the richest it has ever been. A minimum wage increase ti 15$ would help more and reduce gentrification impacts.
"Fundamentally altering a culture and character of"... disinvestment, poverty and crime... sound like positives to me. Sure, some people don't want to leave where they are, but she's not talking about the people who now benefit from the value of their property increasing OR the decrease in crime, increase in funding for schools, decrease in poverty etc.
Amor Royer it’s just a decrease in poverty in that particular area. The displaced poor people are still going to be poor in whatever area they end up moving to.
I read a thesis about how children that live in an area before gentrification benefit from newer businesses, money coming into the area, updated schools, safer parks, etc. They are also much more likely to attend college.
@@MrJAnthony91 doesn't that suggest they may have remained poor if the area didn't get any investment to start with? Also, what about the ones who DON'T leave outright? This may equate to a net benefit overall though some may not reap that benefit for a number of reasons.... I'd love to see more studies on this.
The issue with your statement is that you're focusing on the property and not actually the people. How will most of these low income people afford the rent spike?
Gentrification IS NOT a Social Problem! It is just a process where people are running away from expensive places. And just like every process, it has side effects. Good ones: City gets safer, salaries get higher because there is more money in the local economy, new buildings, and shops, more job opportunities. The bad one: life gets a bit more expensive.
Gentrification has it's pluses and minuses. No matter which side of the argument you are on, you have to agree with that. Hands down, gentrification makes a neighborhood safer. That's not an opinion it's a fact. However, small businesses/original residents gets kicked out. One important concept to take away is that not all former residents were bad or in gangs. At the end of the day, the impacted group should be protected/compensated. In NYC we are heading into the right direction with the 80/20 program. It's not the best solution, but a solution nonetheless.
Well "White Flight" kinda balances all of that out, doesn't it? As Black people become more and more displaced, they began to move to other areas and (for whatever reason) White folks began to move out and those neighborhoods become "Black neighborhoods". Unfortunately, the prices usually decrease in those areas (something we need to work on as a people) and the cycle continues. Been happening for decades. We all know that part of town, neighborhood, school, church and even shopping center/mall that use to be predominantly White. Every city and town in the US has them.
Good and bad of gentrification in my opinion, Good: property values go up Bad: taxes go up Good: job creation Bad: jobs may not go to locals Good: reduces crime statistics Bad: doesn't necessarily reduce crime although theres usually an increased police presence. Good: diversity Definitely Bad: cost of living pushes some locals out. Good: most times they update local utilities. Bad: some claim loss of neighborhood identity. Maybe good: evolution of that areas identity. Good: more access to groceries Bad : said groceries might cost more in that area now. Adding to cost of living.
Anyone paying 2k per month should move maybe out of state and buy a house. A lot of times gentrification is good for the displaced. I have talked to poor Latinos that moved to Atlanta and paid 450 a month to rent a house. U can't rent anything in L.A. for that.
So since my wife is a brown person, (to use your words) can we only live where the majority families are mixed like us? You do know (but I am not sure you do) a large number of white people are poor and working class. But there white skin mean they cannot move into low rent neighborhoods?
My thoughts on why fighting gentrification it is a dumb idea: -The whole idea that you have high paying professional jobs in downtown areas, and then surround those areas with with lower income people, and then have the workers for the high paying jobs living an hour away, and driving in to work or taking a commuter rail is unnatural and absurd. This arose when traffic wasn't bad and people were racist enough that they needed their own communities away from minorities. -The gentrification process actually shows people's relaxed views on race now. It wouldn't have happened if rich white people still refused to be on the same block as minorities. -Going back to the first point, in real estate you pay mostly for location, and when you refer to location, the biggest part of rent is the proximity to employment. You get what you pay for. -Stopping gentrification basically means refusing to ever fix a neighborhood and dooming people to an awful existence. Or it means fixing it up but refusing to let anybody move there. How fair is that? -Cities need more buildings and high rises to fight high rents. This means tearing down the brownstones. Even if its a luxury unit, it means that 1,000 1%ers will now be leaving their brownstones, and a middle class family or group of young professionals can live affordable. Meaning that the lower income people can now afford the displaced professionals place. -If you want the social programs to take care of the lower income people, you need the tax base paying taxes in your city. Letting them live in the suburbs will continue to invest in the suburbs and not your city.
GENTRIFICATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE. IT HAS TO DO WITH CLASS. There's examples of many white blue collar/white ethnic neighborhoods that have been totally railroaded by this. Hispanic neighborhoods, in some small cases, have also been effected. Once again. Get that through your head. Everyone, of every color, who isn't a 1% should oppose this. I can give you a list of cities (including the area I live in) in which you can have success and low-crime without pricing out locals. You forget that the people being effected aren't just poor people but working class, tax-paying, law abiding citizens (in most cases it's these people). A citiy should not exclusively cater to one class of people. This is America. Make room for everybody or GTFO. Class prejudice should not be a hinderence. This is really a cut-and-dry issue. I don't care if rich people live in my city. They should. But I should be allowed to live in an affordable neighborhood as well if it's already affordable--there shouldn't be a DELIBERATE plan to make that difficult for such a MASSIVE population of people. If a tiny %4 of your metro is non-wealthy, fine. But if a significant portion is you as the city leaders/planners/politicos have a responsibility to make a balanced mixed economy. There's many countries overseas and many terrorities that acccomplished this. So the BS "GENTRIFICATION IS THE ONLY WAY" nonsense is silly. It's just proof that the Left and the Democratic Party are totally dead as truly progressive. The "War On Poverty" was essentially abandoned. thje GOP is useless as well. Both parties, both leaderships are pointless. This is a common sense issue. You keep ignoring the elepehant of the room--class prejudice. It's just basic classic classism. It's old and exist in most major modernized, capitalist societies. So rather than defending the wealthy, who don't give two shits about you (I doubt you're an uber-rich mogul arguing on youtube), try to actually use common sense to deal with the people actually negatively being effected by this. Your theory doesn't My city and area has had successful urban renewel programs, and successfully had mixed housing and been able to supply jobs for members of almost every socio-economic strata. It's possible, most people do it. although it exists elswhere (in the UK For example), the gentrification buzz is an American obsession. It's just about getting more and more. It's strictly speaking a cheap cash grab. Urban Renewel and gentrification are seperate things, as is community empowerment. If you have the first and third, then you really don't need the second. You're just making petty excuses without researching the history of how forced, accelerated urban planning harms multiple communities, especially if this happens WITHOUT their involvement in the process.
But the problem is that we have a few hundred square miles of real estate in the downtown parts of major cities, with millions of miles of land available in America. How can you tell a demographic of people that they "don't belong in that part" or that they can't live there unless some other people are given free rides to live there too? I don't think that you should, it should be based on who owns the land, and who is willing to pay for it. I'm not a huge capitalist in most respects, but when it comes to where you live, I think that its a system that's the most fair, at least when it comes to very scarce land. I think that communities need to be aggressively planned, but a better solution to destroying the appeal of scarce land is to invest heavily in creating new, affordable communities in land that is further away from the source, and can strategically be used to balance the country out, keep costs down, and give people home ownership, and a sense of stability and community. Major brand cities should be be transient areas for high performing professionals. It should be a reward to live there, and you should be living there because you are pursuing a professional dream. If there's no specific reason to live there, where you live can be serviced just as well by living much further out from employment that you aren't at the moment eligible for anyway.
A community is more than a 'plan' to the majority of people though. It runs deeper. A community is a true COMMUNITY. It's not a real estate wet dream. Sure, the law says otherwise, but the law used to say interracial marriage was illegal too. History has shown time and time again that just because something is in place doesn't mean fighitng it is unrealistic or pointless, or that it gains no results. I agree with one thing: mixed-income planning for a desginated area on the whole is a good idea. My area has done this and it's worked. Forced, aggressive gentrification as opposed to proper affordable housing planning in the inner-city is the way to go. If you kick everybody out, I have a problem wtih that. Which is essentially, in the 21st centuyry, what gentrification amounst to. Especially as the further away people go to live away from the gentrified areas, the more the gentrification brigade keeps moving the process to the next blcok over. Repeatedly. To fit real estate developer interests and not the interests of the actual citizens. Same thing with the bought politicians, on both sides of the isle, who only care about filling their pockets and votes rather than representing the best interests of their constituents. I don't believe, however, that a city should cater to only one group of people. A metropolis was designed to be huge and have a mix of people since ancient times. It flies into the face of what a 'city' truly is. The majority of this country, including the endless parade of idiots posting on the internet even those defending gentrification (why a plumber or a kid working at 7-11 would think gentrification is good is beyond me), is not uber-rich %1 or young professionals. And the country is heavily urbanized. So a good chunk of a city's population isn't giong to be these groups either. If you're a civic leader, you need to be realistic about the demographics of your city and adjust using your own intellect and common sense. It shouldn't be the other way around. Citizens don't ADJUST for the developers, the developers adjust for the citizens, both new as well as older residents.
I grew up in Philadelphia and during my childhood our neighborhood went through ghettofication. Thousands of families were displaced against our will. Home values were destroyed. The culture and character of the neighborhood was radically changed. It felt totally unfamiliar and unsafe to the long-time residents. We were no longer wanted there. So, if I had to choose between gentrification and ghettofication, I would pick gentrification every time. See the books Row House Days and Row House Blues for details. BTW, we were told neighborhoods change and there was nothing we could do. Get over it.
People have the right to live where they can afford, end of story. The people who complain about gentrification are often the same people who believe we should allow more immigration (which I don't disagree with, but its hypocritical). The entire US is gentrified since the Native Americans were removed from their land. If you're priced out, thats just how it is.
+GreatJoFo Exactly this isn't a black or white thing. Look up Bowie maryland, wealthy blacks have moved in and basically kicked out poor whites. The poor whites who lived in bowie can no longer afford the taxes. People need to stop making everything a race war
+Jason Young Everybody complains about Harlem being gentrified recently, but seem to forget that Harlem was originally a Dutch village in the 17th century, became a Italian/Jewish neighborhood by the 19th century, and only became a black neighborhood during the Great Depression. Huh, moving in when prices are down? Sound familiar.
TakeTheFall That's my point. Look I get it changing neighborhoods is hard especially for people that have lived there for years. However, progress a part of life.
Everybody complains about Harlem being gentrified recently, but seem to forget that Harlem was originally a Dutch village in the 17th century, became a Italian/Jewish neighborhood by the 19th century, and only became a black neighborhood during the Great Depression. Huh, moving in when prices are down? Sound familiar.
Ok, so people moved to harlem because the prices were low (given the pay scale and not many job opportunities for minorities). How is it the same as people WITH money wanting to buy up properties in low income areas (most do not own their homes, they are renters and are forced to move when owners sell their properties). Many low income, hard working people are being forced out of their homes and can't afford to stay in the area. This is Displacement. Its not just your long time neighbor deciding to move one day, its a whole block of long time neighbors having to move at once. All of a sudden, homes are going up in price so owners who rent their properties start raising the rents to reflect the sudden boom and now people who thought it wouldnt effect them, find they too, can no longer afford to live in their homes and have to move. Its crazy.
So, what is your point? This community doesn't belong to the Europeans! They inhabited here! (the carpet -baggers, if you will).This country belongs to the ingenuous (BROWN)people. If you really want to get oxymoron about it. The so called Africans came with ya. So it's truly nobody's land. Geeez!
But those Dutch chose to leave because they didn’t want to be around blacks. Harlem residents aren’t choosing to leave they are being forced to leave because of high property values.
If the families getting displaced have been there for so long, don't they own real estate that largely benefits them when the real estate market booms? A man in St Louis bought a 50,000 dollar house in the 1970s and recently sold for a few millions because the city wanted to build a high rise where it stood. If he loved the house he could have held on longer; eventually they gave him enough money to move. Now he can buy a condo in the same neighborhood. The city grows and adapts. We can't stop it from doing so because it would make people move out; if your family lived in that neighborhood for 50 years it's their own fault they don't own property and benefit from the development.
The recession of 2008 brought down property values in many places. Your data is from 11' to 14' right when many communities are increasing in value and recovering from the recession. I would like to see something showing how gentrification differs from this.
Would it be correct to assume the gentrification is the systematic breaking up of communities through pricing them out? And this leading to their displacement?
Everything she said about people not feeling their neighborhoods are recognizable and not a part of those places any longer sounds an awful lot like "xenophobia."
She is on point, but I have point to make why gentrification is so successful in pushing out low income people (blacks and brown people). Integration of blacks during the civil right movement was our biggest mistake, it seemed good at the time, but no race was ever meant to integrate, in mean, think about t it people, why the hell would whites want to share their wealth with blacks, integration destroyed black owned businesses and black communities over a span of 50 years. Prior to the civil right movements, blacks owned 30% of America's wealth, fast forward to now, blacks only own less than 1%. So you got to ask your self the question? What good did integration do for blacks? Not only did integration destroy the black communities, it cause blacks over time to separate from their own people. Had blacks expected Malcom X solution, gentrification would not even exist in the black communities.
Ownership is EVERYTHING…..try to buy in and own the property you live in, if you do then you won’t be affected by gentrification…..you’ll stay put and enjoy the property appreciation and new value.
Dimitri Korsakov sorry we need affordable housing these landlords are gouging the rentors anyhow. Landlords get help from the city in many ways but not rentors
What people also have to understand is that gentrification not only effects the area being gentrified but the area or areas where the displaced people end up moving to.
Who cares? I do not want losers for neighbours. There is plenty of room back in the ghetto for them and everyone is better off all round.
Are you saying that elderly people are losers and should move to the ghetto? Really? What you said sounds like something a german would have said about the Jewish people during Nazi Germany.
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Mauricio, I wouldn't want my grandmother living in the ghetto. Does that make me a Nazi? You are beyond ridiculous.
+gamersxs so where do you think they move to when they can no longer afford the neighborhood that they have lived for for years?
You can really tell in the comment section what kind of people grew up in comfortable communities when they don't understand the issues of gentrification. But then again, when something doesn't affect you, it's easy to pretend like it's not a big deal.
Sounds like a snobbish comment to me(And I'm sure you did not intend for that to be the case)
+Frontierland You are talking out of your ass, mate.
Exactly!
SnowyWolborg. Well said!
Here is the difference - when non-whites move into white areas, it is typically in a small number and we are not trying to have everyone there do things our way.
The negative aspect of gentrification is forcing other people to take on your culture rather than assimilating into the culture you move into. It is the same outrage that whites cry out when non-whites move in large amount and don't change to fit in.
This video actually made me really depressed, because I see it happening right before my very eyes. I live in Brooklyn not far from flatbush, and I know this will sound some type of way but I'll be very honest. Up until a couple of years ago, every time I saw "new" people in the area I felt really happy because I thought that it meant that there would be more diversity. But I didn't think deep enough, the thing is every time a new person comes in someone has to move out. I didn't understand that until people I knew for most of my life started leaving one by one and the rent started climbing mountains. Now every time I come home and see more new people I am reminded that I won't be able to live there for to much longer. It reminds me of how truly unfair this world is. It was easier to be angry about it years ago, but when it's this close and you know you will lose your home in the next few years... there is just sadness.
+Mayanime3 The smart west indians invested in property & moved to the Flatlands. Flatbush is a shithole and needs to be changed asap.
It's sad but it's reality. Most people stay the same and never change. They think life will always stay the same. People are mostly followers and worry about what others think. Either change and adapt or simply move where you can afford to live. It's simple but sad.
Mayanime3 you will be able to stay there if you stop looking at the negative and take the steps to get into the income bracket you need to be in to stay there and invest in property.
Mayanime3
3 years later , what happened to you?
Path to take back our community from Gentrification: Work harder, force our kids to study hard, go to school, get good paying jobs. Let the white people make the hood better, then move back and kick them out with your checkbook.
To the people contributing to meaningful discussions within the comment section, I thank you.
Gentrification isn't a strict racial thing... where I'm living now (Stratford, London) there's been a huge influx of high-income Indian/Muslim professionals that have pushed up property values and spurred new cafes, restaurants and shops. It's a natural process of any large city and is impossible to stop effectively. You can't prevent people purchasing property and living where they would like.
***** The dynamic is exactly the same in the UK as it is in the US. It just comes from two very different places. Red lining enacted after the New Deal created zones within the inner cities in which residents ( mostly minorities) were unable to secure affordable mortgages. Banks viewed these neighbourhoods as undesirable for investment. This, combined with segregation and racially restrictive covenants, forced minorities (mostly African Americans) to remain in run down neighbourhoods without having the ability to invest and gain the property capital afforded to white citizens. White flight after the civil rights movement and the desegregation of schools, exasperated the situation further. It wasn't until the late 70's and early 80's when educated baby boomer whites, finding the comforts of the inner city desirable, were able to get loans (mostly from their parents who where now reaping the benefits of home ownership in the suburbs) to by the cheap housing in these previously 'undesirable' neighbourhoods. Job access and wage stagnation in minority groups harmed their chances further. In the UK, mortgage lending wasn't racially charged at all, securing loans in immigrant areas wasn't difficult. this is why Afro-Caribbean and Asian immigrants could by property "straight off the boat", especially because most of them had secured lucrative jobs in the growing healthcare and public sectors during the 1960's and 70's, but job security for subsequent generation has been much more difficult (similar to the plight of Afro-Americans). This job security is also very applicable to working class whites in both countries, turing what was a racial problem in the past into a class problem now. What's common between the two countries is a three pronged attack which is the result of Anglo American economic dominance. First, newly arriving immigrants (asian, hispanic, eastern european, Afro-Caribbean and sub saharan african in the case of the US, and european and Asian in the UK) are much more willing to live in poor conditions for less pay, if it means that they can either save enough to move up or go back home, allowing landlords to exploit their situation and charge exorbitant rents. Two, continuing gentrification, but now from a new class of Yuppies, entrepreneurs and financial professionals having much more available funds then anyone else to invest in multiple properties. Three, banks, hedge fund groups and real estate agents forcibly pushing up the market to create artificial capital (a bubble), trying to offset the losses of the 2008 crash.
I tried to make this as concise as possible, but with such a large subject it's nearly impossible.
My last point is if you look at markets in which mortgage lending is much more difficult and the rental market is much more controlled (i.e, Italy, Germany, Austria) this problem is nearly non existent.
***** Being choked off? There's racial quotas in the US, its called Affirmative Action, under qualifed blacks who get job and college positions undeserved and under qualified, get grants and scholarships because of white guilt, which in turn makes ungrateful lazy people expecting more and more handouts. You did not build America.
+Truth Warrior links
+pearcake LMAO bro I live in Tempe. AZ they're doing the same thing here. Those Muslims have so much money it's crazy.
***** Do you own a college degree?
I see both sides of gentrification.
1) People, cities, towns, businesses want to live their lives "well". They think that people who don't have the money that they have are not equal.
2) People being forced out due to this policy cannot see anything other than the fact that it's usually minorities being displaced. So the racism thing will continue without anyone figuring out that there is an actual problem with a lot of the people who share the same background (Latino, Black, etc.)
So ask yourselves this? Is gentrification just randomly happening? How in the blue hell is it happening all over randomly? Is it really random or is there a bigger picture going on?
I know for a fact that in my town (and mine included), rents went up nearly $300 instantaneously overnight! This is all planned and it starts with politics & business. Think about that the next time you go to vote for your favorite politician who claims to be a voice for you!!!
We are all in the minority. Those who have the money, want more money, and more money after that.
That's the thing with gentrification. It's strategic & well-coordinated. They either don't move to the low-income housing units (a.k.a 'the hood/ghetto) or they do move & rent will skyrocket due to rich folks coming into your turf. Logically speaking, shouldn't rent be lower, so that those who are poor can buy products from large corporations?
Its called " addiction to money"
Gentrifications has been really effecting New Orleans since Hurricane Katrina and man I really miss my home😔
I am sorry to hear about that, I think what can help is if we invest in the real estate ourselves,(after gentrification) create businesses and invest in ourselves to help.
Again I am sorry and I wish this was done better because people are coming in and others are forced to move out....
@@LadyPinkster wtf you are sorry about gentrification but then you talk about investing and making a better place, that's the whole point of gentrification
Alo RGB Culture changes with gentrification bruh, home is no longer home when the CULTURE changes, it also effects businesses usually owned by non blacks, it’s deeper than just “Oh it looks better!” TF?!!
@sanjay j how?
@Kelvin Guru No way because my great grandfather was French....Tell me something I don’t know 😑
The moment she mentioned race I knew she was going to lose a lot of people and they were going to be stuck on that one thing. How about we look at it in terms of Low Income and High Income. Even though STATs give us the demographics on what races are affect apparently that is way too much of a hot button.
It's not about income it's about opportunities and racial bias
Race is an issue in America. We need to talk about it more.
+corytrapper tell that to the white ppl like my dad who were pushed out of Hells Kitchen in the 80's. Ethnic white neighborhoods are the first to go which can be seen in Boston, Philly and in NYC. Gentrification is nothing new and has been going on in NYC for almost 50 years which started out in the East Village in the 1960s. No one even cared when it was happening to the Rican hoods, it's only when it started to effect blacks that cultural Marxists started to give a fuck. gtfo
+CapiTen10 look kkk bitch if cant have a civil discussion leave
Yasmina Green smh
The bland stares in the crowd show you how much they really care about the issue.
they're white of course they don't care
Well Vitaman,they have to care at least a little or your ass would be serving them sandwiches,Dead or back in Africa.
I'll let you chose which one of those are worse.
you would never say that to my face lol
who said anything about violence? Europeans always obsessed with war mongering lol. degenerate sKKKumbag.
Oh look, another keyboard warrior
I really like how clear she was about her points
yep anti white propaganda
@@davidsquall351 not everyone who talks about racism is part of Nation Of Islam 😒
@@emilpersidski True. Many of them are part of BLM. They remind me when they tell me that they’re going to kill me because I’m white.
Berlin found a solution to gentrification: burning cars.....
It's mostly just a bunch of self absorb people on this site. No empathy for people who are struggling just to get by. People like that are always on the outside judging people lives. Would they feel the same way if it were their family member? I don't think so. No one gives a damn about low income working class people. I hope for the ones who are incapable of feeling other people pain that it never happens to you. Most of us are only a paycheck away from poverty ourselves. So stop.
It's because our media has made us so divisive. leading us to believe that whites cannot be poor(Hell Bernie Sanders actually said this in a debate with Shillery) and they(Media) turned any debate about class into one about Race which leads to emotional responses and not logical ones.
And naturally any white that isn't actually privileged and well to do should by Human Nature be saying something akin to "F them Niggas" And vice versa etc up and down.
It's a sad cycle but it's where we are at.
Pay cheque
Can ppl stop spelling payment cheque as check????
I live in a city on the come up where gentrification is accelerating. Rent kept going up, so I worked hard and bought a condo, best decision I made. One must adapt to change, the world is constantly changing. The terror birds were awesome but cats and bears replaced them, it is what it is
No matter what you call it...how you explain the reasoning behind it... the good that may come from it...the bad that may come from it... here's what I see as the biggest problem with gentrification...
It's one thing for new people (whether those new people have more money...are of a different rate, etc.) ...it's one thing for new people to come into the neighborhood and learn about and embrace the history...embrace and patronize the old-school businesses... befriend the long-term residents...appreciate the mix of residents, businesses, cultures, etc.
It's something entirely different however, when the new people come in and think they've 'discovered' something cool...that their mere presence, and that of other people more like themselves, now makes the particular neighborhood a good one...a 'safer' one... It's something entirely different when these new people want to 'curate' the neighborhood they now call home, into their own version of utopia, complete with $5 coffeeshops, doggie day care, etc.
If you gentrifiers don't want to be hated so much, you need to work WITH the long-term residents...get to KNOW them...UNDERSTAND them... and patronize the long-standing old-school businesses...
Amen!!!!!!!
@lisa evers: With whom? Those that come back, parents left in the first place to get away from those that came. The ones that are being driven out now.
lisa evers that is the reason why we have to unify as a people have a great sat passing Us by and if we don't get our self together we're going to become a permanent underclass
lisa evers I tried to patronize a local soul food/Caribbean restaurant, but it was closed, even though the open sign was lit up and the hours said it was supposed to be open.
lisa evers in the end, were all Americans. So why does that matter.
gentrification is the outcome of favouring capitalism ideology over valuing humans.
True
***** If starting conditions were totally indentical for everyone the result would be the exact same thing for everyone. Having same chances starts with genetics..
starting conditions are not the same for everyone because of free market and lack of social support in society due to governments giving the leg up to companies rather than people/families
How do you value humans ?
Capitalism is freedom. Freedom is the most valuable tool we can have
My grandparents bought their home here in Inglewood, CA back in the 70s when the neighborhood was nice. They were some of the first Hispanic families to move into the neighborhood. But as more minorities started to move in, crime started to increase. And after the riots of 1993, my grandfather's home was valued at nearly half of what he had originally paid for.
Due to gentrification, the property values are starting to increase again. Even if it comes to it that we can no longer afford to live here anymore, my grandfather has the ability to sell the house for a profit later on and move somewhere more desirable.
So I can tell you this... gentrification is good for the black and brown homeowners who slaved away to buy a house that continually decreased in value.
It's bad for the renters who've been living in the city for a few years, and the thugs who made the city uninhabitable to begin with.
Property values in the South Bay area of L.A. peaked around 1988 then nose dived because of the cutbacks in military spending and all the aerospace layoffs. Lots of people walked away from their homes because they were upside down in the mortgages and no longer had a good paying job to make their monthly payments. Couldn't make their payment, couldn't sell it to pay off the loan equals foreclosure. The market bottomed around 1997 but deals were still to be had until 2000 or so. Places like Inglewood lost more value because potential buyers could find good deals in other neighborhoods. It was very much a buyers market at the time.
IVAN, I THINK GENTRIFICATION WAS A GOOD WAY OUT FOR YOUR GRANDPARENTS BUT NOT FOR THE LESS FORTUNATE ONES WHO HAS INVEST IN THEIR HOME MONEY TIME AND EFFORT AND ALL OF THE SUDDEN COMES THE INVESTMENT GROUP OF CORRUPT INTRUDERS AND GIVE YOU A LETTER WITH TIME LAPSE FOR YOU TO MOVE OUT OF THE PLACE AND THEY WANT TO BUY YOU WITH A MISERABLE CHECK OF FEW HUNDREDS OR IF PERHAPS FEW THOUSANDS AND THEN WHERE ARE YOU GOING AN AFFORDABLE LIVING. THEY TOOK YOU OUT FROM THE COMFORT OF YOUR HOME FROM THE PLEASANTLY NEIGHBORHOOD THAT YOU KNOW WELL TO LA LA LAND, JUST TO SATISFY THEIR EGGO AND THEIR POCKETS.
SO WRONG SO WRONG.
When what minorities moved in? What do u think they call u?
@S.O.T. NEO SAINTS OF THUNDER they call minority to all non whites, not matter if they are mayority
@@peche184 U just confirmed what
@S.O.T. NEO SAINTS OF THUNDER was saying. U may have misunderstood his statement and the flow of conversation.
The real solution is to improve low income areas in a way that helps residents earn a better living.
That would be a combination of businesses that offer respectable jobs to a willing labor force, and improvement to the education system so the next generating has a chance of upward mobility.
Access to affordable and good quality food is also an important factor to revitalizing an area.
If the education becomes good then people of other areas will want their kids to study there, raising prices, better food in the are makes a better livong, raising prices, paving the streets, lowering crime and creating high pay jobs will raise prices and if the area has a good location then it will most definitely "gentrify"
Aka... Ben Carson’s opportunity zones ..
@@barackobama5559 then that is the problem. gentrification is progress but at the cost of affordable housing. does crime only exist to keep costs down? because victimizing people seems worse that gentrification.
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@@cameroncorrosive925 wdym ? They have right to be victims, your race enslaved them and colonized them remember ?
Being in the field that I am in, I hate to admit that most of my fellow friends that are also realtors do not care about poor people. The reason being is because our clients don’t care either. Me & my wife promised we would never displace people but other realtors aren’t so forgiving.
This is happening all over the nation and world. I live in Los Angeles and my family has been evicted due to gentrification and continues to be affected. When Silverlake became the hot place to live, my family could no longer afford the rent once our building was sold and managed by a housing corporation that owned a large majority of properties in the area. Our family had to move to Echo Park and about five years into living here we began to witness the same violent displacement.
This is done so intentionally that when the area began to be "revitalized" it was because the city had closed down all the public spaces and community resources, they implemented gang injunctions that disproportionately target youth of color, we saw an influx in businesses that were unaffordable to the people living here such as boutiques, cafes, bars and yoga studios along with the wave of single young white individuals from out of town. This causes immediate displacement and many times these people are so afraid of people of color that they choose to call law enforcement rather than getting to know the people in the community.
It's painful. None of the friends I grew up with continue to live here. The schools suffer because the majority of these people do not have children or opt to send them to private schools rather than keeping their children in local private schools. This lack of enrollment affects funding for schools, affecting the children whose families do not have other options.
It is painful to see businesses and services in the community go, only to be replaced by businesses that no one in the community benefits from. In fact, they are replaced by huge, aesthetic unpleasing luxury condos that remain empty for years because nobody can afford to live in. The banks are in on it, the council members are bought out by the developers all while they continue to get richer from the violent displacement of poor families.
The narrative that we did nothing to try to improve our communities is false. When the community organized to develop stronger relationships with law enforcement and financial stability many politicians came out to "support". However, they never followed through with the communities demands. In fact, they began to disguise their efforts to bring in other people to the community by organizing events that were geared towards gentrifiers. Echo Park Rising, Sunset Junction and even the Lotus Festival are now tools that are used to continue the gentrification process in Echo Park.
Sara Fizzetts this is the reason why we need to unify other people every other group is passing Us by and if we don't get our self together and put our differences to decide we are going to become a permanent underclass
Though I don't have children, I can understand why affluent white people wouldn't send their children to an underperforming school to listen to Spanish all day, and slow everything down to the speed of non-english-speaking kids.
Mandy Landry that’s so funny that you say that. Research on Bilingualism has proven that speaking two languages strengthens cognitive faculties, improves multitasking and gives individuals the tools to communicate and understand others. It’s unfortunate that speaking Spanish to you is a deficiency.
Research has also shown that forcing students to only speak English at school and ignore their home language deters the acquisition of both languages.
Furthermore, in Los Ángeles these families have created charter schools to keep their kids in free schools that they control. The way that registration is done is sketchy because they claim it’s on a lottery basis but often times classrooms reflect greater gentrifier populations than those of families who have been here for generations.
Crime has gone down drastically in silver lake. And down in echo park. Luckily due to revitalization and crack downs on really bad gangs. Man it was bad there
This Queen is out here delivering truth and being brave for morality and what's right.
and sounding very xenophobic
Ripping the soul out of an area. No children playing outside anymore.
Also no violent gangs exploiting and killing the neighborhood children anymore, so that.
K J ya... but everyone lnows that if the gang violence goes downnn... police action goes down... and now theres no one to blame for financial complicity / complacency. :(((((
So don’t ever complain about poverty! Don’t ever complain about poor schools. And don’t ever complain about white flight!
@@kj475 The main problem is property value going up which screws the original inhabitants of these neighborhoods. These are the last places they can afford and gentrification is ensuring they will live the rest of their lives homeless.
Is "no children playing outside anymore" a cover for xenophobia and "these people aren't the people I like"
Why is gentrification going on in NYC and in other cities in America?
First off the suburbs has a lack of jobs for its highly educated populace. Jobs in the suburbs are extremely limited from low wage jobs of fast food and Walmart, to mid range logistics, and to office parks. When Caleb and Megan come back to the burbs from college, what jobs are they going to get? The only option for Caleb and Megan is to move to the big city to find work where jobs are in abundance and to formulate a career path. In order to combat gentrification in inner city neighborhood, the suburbs might need to urbanize so that suburban folks can remain in the burbs for work and opportunities instead of moving into the city. On the flip side, the cities need to do better with public education, improve talent of their local populace and limit local brain drain from inner city neighborhoods. College educated students from inner city neighborhood end up leaving their neighborhoods either moving to the suburbs or to another region. So far this is the only solution I have that can curve gentrification.
Also ethnic white neighborhoods also don't fair well with gentrification. Ethnic white neighborhoods are the first to go which can be seen in Boston, Philly and in NYC. Also gentrification is nothing new and has been going on in NYC for almost 50 years which started out in the East Village in the 1960s
+Benjamin Gibson True. My parents entrusted a former plantation to us but by the time we finished college, and tried to fight city and state government,we would've been bankrupt. We didn't have the high priced lawyer, the money to pay for the every increasing real estate taxes and fight state government mandates (which were installed so that we can legally LOSE) kinda like the banks and their derivative credit default swaps. When they gamble they bet on both sides of the coin causing a win win situation.
yeah, youre a moron. you seriously dont know what happening here. for one its landlords selling properties with residents in em, either causing them to move or paid to move. abandoned properties were once occupied by residents who got kicked out.
Mr DeSilva this is very true.
***** wtf are you talking?
Folks don't talk about rural gentrification either. But basically poor people are getting it from all sides.
There's just not enough jobs that pay well to support a sustainable working class. The middle class will flock to where they can work. NYC, San Francisco / Oakland, Charlotte, Frisco, Denver.
Gentrification sounds a lot like imperialism and colonization. It is not violent but it is systemic.
Jonathan Acevedo well gentrification is violent. look at the fire of the Greenfell tower in London which killed over hundred of people. Austerity cuts as a result of gentrification killed these people.
+Aaron JH.....I know you don't believe that lie---Stop.
alejandro B those people living there gentrified the area to become shittier anywyas as they are immigrants
It is imperialism, but in a different sense. It is no longer limited to white people, but rich people of all colours and creeds storm neighbourhoods and force the residents out. Student gentrification is the worst in my opinion, because they tend to be rich hipsters. These are the same people who will take classes on colonialism and chastise white people, tell you to 'check your privilege etc.' but turn a blind eye to what they're doing to neighbourhoods. If you complain they'll tell you to stop moaning about first world problems whilst they protest for more vegan cafes in your neighbourhood. These people are cancer, destroying communities and displacing locals for soulless establishments.
ethiopianabesha not even close to a lie
Reading some of these comments and smh....
So instead of actually LISTENING to what she is saying, looking at the numbers, some of you automatically dismiss the entire point she is making. Gentrification is a THING. There is an actual Websters definition for it and everything. And she isn't giving a whoa is me kind of talk. She is explaining gentrification and also offering solutions. Do you all hear that? I guess you would rather put your hands over your ears and act like you don't hear the truth... #Childish
Kimberly Fluellen It's true, "gentrification" happens. It's just not everyone agrees it is a problem in need of a solution. It's just the reality, and having to move to a less desirable place because supply and demand has resulted in higher prices that previous renters aren't willing/able to pay isn't the end of the world. These are first world problems. A few are inconvenienced but it is an overall net benefit. There is a lot of historic evidence showing how price fixing harms cities. There is a reason so few cities still have rent control laws. Do a quick search for "the case against rent control" in google or on youtube for a thorough explanation of the unintended consequences of rent control.
***** Thank you for your feedback. However, not agreeing it is a problem doesn't make it NOT a problem. All she was doing was giving you the definition, giving you scenarios of gentrification in action, then giving solutions on how to help ease the problem. Once you KNOW better DO better. Not sit here and say, Oh that's just the way it is. Guess what, it doesn't have to be.
Kimberly Fluellen Wonder what she would have to say about demographic changes in places like Los Angeles where some blacks have described it as "low intensity ethnic cleansing" of their neighborhoods by hispanics? I bet her and anyone else won't get a TED talk out of it. Hispanics are victims too. Black victimology does not work on hispanics the way it works on whites. They can't get the media to listen to them and probably can't get anyone to approve a TED talk about the subject. Just move on out to the California desert without a peep.
BearFlagRebel Black Victimology(not even a word)? Lol, smh
Kimberly Fluellen "Victimology" is not a recognized word as far as all of the English language dictionaries of the world are concerned. Just like words that have came before it that started being used first and regularly by people before they made it in or was recognized by every English language dictionary of the world . The word or term is used and is recognized. It is also understood for it's meaning. It is also something blacks regularly engage in. Also do a Google search for the word rather than just relying on the spell check feature on your browser because that's not going to give you a definition of the word.
I grew up in a city that became gentrified many years later. What I experienced was that it slowly changed based on economics. At first, it was not rich "white" people moving in. It was normal "white" people moving in, Asians, Haitians, etc. Over time, as this population grew, there was a lot more entrepreneurship in the area. Little cafes and restaurants opened up. A lot of more diverse ethnic restaurants appeared (which I loved to visit). They were small "holes in the wall" type places really, as the owners didn't have the money to open anything too impressive, but in the absence of small businesses prior to this, these places became quite popular. The neighborhood became far more secure over time as well. Areas that were nothing but blocks and blocks of closed store fronts, therefore taken over by drug dealers in ever few blocks and so on as well as prostitutes here and there, suddenly had these small businesses, and people began to populate these places. More income entered the neighborhood and more policing resulted as well. At this point, minorities who owned properties began to sell their buildings to developers who were paying money not seen in this area before. These developers then invested a tremendous amount of income to build impressive condos and apartments. Around this time is when the rents began to increase; social displacement resulted. From my perspective, it was a very gradual process that began in the mid 90's for my neighborhood. Today, it is a like a totally different place.
Asians and especially Haitians = not white, tho.
Some folks hate those who own their home... These same folks like having a landlord... I am a home owner. I am not a rich white guy, I am a Mexican immigrant... I am the face of gentrification... I bought a house which I can afford... I do not have a landlord... Some folks see this as a bad thing... Change the culture of a neighborhood? OK, so we working class Mexicans are bringing our music, food and culture with us... So did the Chinese, so did the Vietnamese... Go ahead and speak out against home ownership (gentrification). Go ahead and speak out against a culture that is different than yours... I am not going to leave my culture behind because you don't like it.. and you don't have to... but it and I are both here to stay. My neighborhood is gentrified. And guess what? We do not have boutiques, fancy restaurants or expensive cafes... And we're ok with that... We (immigrant homeowners) are here to stay!!! You want to pay rent??? Go ahead and give your hard earned money to a rich landlord then...
Sutton is spot on. It has to be distinguished from "development." Gentrification is displacement. It is the conversion of neighborhoods from working class to bourgeoisie. And artists prime the neighborhoods for the process. It is very disheartening. I don't know what to do about it.
+ethan pettit
I am so confused about gentrification causing displacement because if you own your home, no one can force you to move. However, most of the people she (woman in the video) is referring to are renters, and I am not one to say it is fair lower income people might have to relocate, but life is not fair.
My parents taught me as a child (seriously) "Son life is not fair". When people rent, they are entirely dependent on the mercy of the landlord/property owner, and in America, we're supposed to be a free country. Therefore, being we are a free country we have what's called property rights, and property rights were one of the first concerns our founding fathers had in America (the land of the free).
" In Federalist 54, James Madison stated tersely: “Government is instituted no less for the protection of the property than of the persons of individuals.”
As Madison later elaborated, property rights are as important as personal rights because the two are intimately connected. The right to labor and acquire property is itself an important personal right and entitled to government protection; and the property acquired through the exercise of this personal right is entitled, by derivation, to an equal protection. As he put it in his “Address to the Virginia Convention”:
I am utterly confused by the woman in the video's rhetoric and her apparent racism against European Americans/Caucasians.
Currently, I live in an area in the midst of gentrification, and it is great. We have people of all nationalities moving here, Caucasian, Indian, Asian, and more upper/higher income people of color. So her trying to portray gentrification as something the big bad white privileged class is doing. Perhaps she should one read the Constitution, and pay attention to the people moving to these areas.
She has an agenda, and she simply wants to make Caucasians out to be the bad guys for taking advantage of an opportunity when it is available. People are business people, and we are going to make deals. It is what business people do, but I feel the woman in this video would like to see revitalization but at tax payers expense.
Being someone who leans more toward libertarian I see her idea as merely 'TAKING' from one group of people to give to another.
Duke, there is a strong nativist reaction to gentrification that is racist, that profiles whites as "colonists" and holds that brown and black people of a generation or more standing in the neighborhood have a built-in right to the neighborhood. A lot of that is a kind of a sloppy spinoff of French Marxists like Henri Le Fevre and his doctrine of a "right to the city." The upshot of this argument is that someone is supposed to pay for some people to have housing at below market rate. The idea is dead in the water, no one takes it seriously, it is the yodel of self-pitty and entitlement. All the same, nativism provides a kind of rallying call for a lot of people who are pissed off about "displacement" ... and probably even more pisser off at themselves for not having bought a house 20 years ago when they could have picked one up at auction for a few grand. Willy nilly, if you look past the nonsensical nativist rhetoric, you can still appreciate the candor of this speaker, in as much as she point out that gentrification is a conversion from a working class to a bourgeoise urban culture. And that is historically significant and challenging.
+ethan pettit -Hello E-Man! -Lewy
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People live where they can afford to live just because someone can only afford to live in that neighborhood doesn't mean they're entitled to live there forever it sounds exclusionary and prejudice to tell someone of a higher income that they can't live in a low-income neighborhood if they choose to do so. This is simply a game of options low income people have one option people with more money have multiple options if you don't like being on the wrong side of the seesaw increase your options.
Thank-you for teaching me because I confused gentrification with improvement, but never knew what it really meant. Now that I am more educated I can form an educated opinion.
Here's what happening in Oakland. Home values goes up, people who own their homes decide that they can sell and buy a nicer house further out in the east bay. The people who USE to live in the bad neighborhoods DO ALSO benefit, you just do not see it because they've sold their homes and moved away.
They cry they were pushed out, but being pushed out is a lot nicer with a half mil in your pocket.
When about the low-income people that rented homes in that area? They aren't going to walk away with a million dollars, they're just going to be kicked out when the rent spikes.
let's not talk about families being driven apart
@@MrSpy13011 that’s their fault. They should of leveled up and bought a house. 😂
Dr. Stacy Sutton was my professor and she is highly intelligent and very articulate. She knows her stuff and knows it very well. I truly enjoyed having her as my professor and was honored to have been her student.
Hi Ted, I hope you're doing all right. Can you please pay for CC? Students like me love watching your videos for references for research. I find myself quoting a lot of your speakers. The proper translation of the CC makes it easier to take notes and cite the speakers. Thanks. it will be much appreciated.
You can aa CC from your computer or phone
I don't know how I feel about controlled rents because I look at cities like San Francisco, and it actually lead to more gentrification. The controlled rents were placed on older buildings, not newer builds, because the city didn't want to deter new buisnesses from building there. So, the old buildings would either: 1) force their renters out by converting their buildings into condos, or 2) completely demolishing the old buildings to build new apartments with no rent control. So, it ended up backfiring.
But then I look at places, like Phoenix, and see how obscenely high rent gets there. Mostly from snow birds and rich, foreign students with short term leases for college. It pushed all the locals out... And since those rich people don't stay for summer, it hurts a lot of buisnesses during that season. However, the city is getting more and more residents. Everyone leaving California and Seattle. They are leaving in droves. At one point they had people placed on waiting list, because all the moving trucks were completely rented out. It's possibly gentrification is to blame for all the people moving, but I'm not certain.
So, this Ted Talk has left me with a lot of questions. I'll have to do more research. So far, rent control seems like more of a short term solution with pitfalls (not 100% certain on this), but maybe it would work better in combination with something else? I'm wondering what longer term solutions would look like. Universal basic income? Schools that are evenly funded throughout states? Lower cost higher education? Raising minimum wage? Because I'm sure the key is getting money into the pockets of our communities, rather than rely on outside buisnesses/people.
Gentrification increases housing supply and decreases prices of a house.
I learned gentrification term from Furious Styled in Boyz In The Hood
They want us to kill ourselves.
Learned from in the hood also...
Gentrification is good. The people being pushed out are the same people who cause the problems that gentrification fixes.
All the poor people are the problem?
@@MrSpy13011 Well, do you not think the #1 reason that people pay big money to live somewhere is that it's not near poor people? 'Cos it clearly is.
Her entire argument is erroneous. Revitalization does the same thing as gentrification. If a neighborhood's crime rate decrease and attracts more businesses, the real estate market will become lucrative, exactly what gentrification does. There is no way that real estate values will remain the same in her definition of a revitalized neighborhood. Gentrification's big sin is creating value in previously valueless neighborhoods, which is not a terrible thing. Gentrified neighborhoods are safer and more economically prosperous. That prosperity allows a city to gain more revenue to fund developments and programs. Her proposed solution is a conservative one that stymies progress in the name of inequality.
It's becoming a worrying phenomenon also in Europe. People don't realize that it's another terrible sign of wealth is generally concentrating in the hands of an increasingly small elite, everywhere faster and faster.
The following is by no means intended to be racially charged, but I will consider some factual history...
The process through which a racial, ethnic group becomes the minority in a neighborhood and is isolated socially and economically, Exclusionary Displacement, is the exact process that caused white flight from the inner cities a generation ago.
Very many of these neighborhoods, before they became impoverished and predominantly "black and brown" as she says, were ethnically diverse, among which included "white" ethnic groups like Irish, Italian, Greek, Polish, etc. These ethnic groups were displaced and replaced by the current population.
In many cases, gentrification is the RETURN of white ethnic groups to neighorhoods from which they have been displaced years ago.
On another note, her concept of Revitalization vs. Gentrification is spotty at best. How exactly does one increase the quality of a neighborhood without increasing the value? If I drop a Turbo V, leather interior, and a Bose stereo system into my car, does it still sell for stock price? Increased money flow to an area can only have the effect of increased property value unless the govt artificially regulates it, which is a separate debate.
On the same token, new business and job openings in your neighborhood could be looked at as an opportunity to raise your own socioeconomic standing.
Social justice is blind to generations of good parents who sacrificed their own self-interests in order to give their children a better start, no matter what they had to compromise
Ryan Cowan exactly. Some people just aren't greatful for the situation that their in and always expect more regardless of the facts right In front of their noses.
My immigrant parents sacrificed their own self-interest in order to give me a better material start, no matter what they had to compromise... And one of the things that was compromised severely was all of our mental and emotional health.
Social justice means that we should have systems in place that do not require people to sacrifice their health in order to have a stable place to live and a decent future for their children.
I am a gentrifier. I live in the house I own. People against gentrification LOVE paying rent to a rich landlord. They will NEVER attempt at buying a house... they will not even DREAM of buying one... even if they can afford to do so... So let’s look at this... 2 people working the same job making the same money. One saves money over the years and buys a house, the other chooses to buy a fancy car and blow his money. Person 1 is hated for buying a house in a poor neighborhood... person 2 will speak up against people buying a house to live in... Get used to it, if you don’t buy a house, you will always live at the mercy of a landlord...
I am a white gentrifier in an 88% latino hood. Every single resident- and I'm not exaggerating-- has a better, bigger and newer car than mine. $60,000 trucks everywhere. Litters of children. Children are for keeps and they are very expensive! Buy your home and THEN the car you can comfortable afford, one or 2 kids. But you come at me with "I'm being kicked out of my neighborhood" when you drive a BMW and have 3 kids at 26 yrs old, and I'm feeling cold as a stone for you.
I wish she gave any information at all about maybe how we can implement strategies to keep investors and the like accountable for their actions. We should have laws to protect the poor when these situations come in.
Government taxes in the neighborhood go up, why would the government be interested in stopping gentrification
I really don't understand the negatives. When whites move out of the neighborhood, and a different ethnicity becomes the majority, they become "havens" for that group. When whites move back in, it's colonialism? Look at the Pilsen neighborhood of Chicago. It was a Czech neighborhood from the 1860's- 1960's. Hispanics started moving in during the 1960's and now is considered a haven for Mexican immigrants. Now, whites are moving back into the area and it's viewed as if whites are forcibly taking over. People are moving where they can afford it, plain and simple. It was like that for both types of immigrants of the time, and is the same for the young (broke) college graduates looking for work in the city. My point here is that neighborhoods change. It's human nature.
My neighborhood is experiencing gentrification. I like that my neighborhood is getting better, because my neighborhood use to be very ghetto. There use to be gangsters walking around the street and there was a lot of crime. It sucks that low-income people are being displaced. I am glad I came across this video, because now I know there are ways of avoiding gentrification when a neighborhood is being revitalized. Thank you for sharing!!
I don't think you got the concept of what she was speaking it's a big difference of revitalization and gentrification the gentrification is going to kick you out you won't be able to enjoy any of that
There's nothing you can do about it
@@ItumelengS there is you can buy property
@@anastasiasanchez7852Buying is tough for everyone nowadays.
Imo the key to revitalization and avoiding gentrification is making sure that the original community members are also benefiting from the revitalization including attending better funded schools and earning higher paying jobs. This elevation would hopefully allow more people who would be displaced to remain
"Fundamentally alter the culture and character of a neighborhood" is what she says defines gentrification. The ironic part is that if you look deeper than 50 years into a particular city's history, take Brooklyn, NY for example, you'll notice that is exactly what ultimately lead to that city's decline. All people are trying to do is to bring it back to what it was before the decline. This is a conversation no one really wants to have. People like Spike Lee like to teach that Brooklyn is, and always was a neighborhood created by African-American culture. There are thousands of Irish, Italian, Polish, Lithuanian etc. immigrants whom would beg to differ. There is no intent in this comment other than to debate the "teachings" of persons like the speaker in the video.
I see your point
Great talk! I'm trying to understand this topic more and learn about alternatives. This is helpful.
I've seen a lot of it in Atlanta and it's frustrating.
The problem with gentrification is the fall of those who need help. People move into these low income areas and it’s almost a mockery of the poor. Why not build up the community by HELPING those who are in need? Creating recreational centers etc. Instead, it’s like the culture has been swallowed and even silenced because of greed and status!
A thoughtful and valuable contribution to a debate going on in many cities and not only in the U.S.
Plainly, we in London (England) have important things to learn from the work of Professor Sutton and her colleagues. From this talk in particular, I'd highlight her formulation of gentrification as "a social justice problem". And that we must pay attention not only to the broad picture and statistics, but to the real "lived experience of gentrification" for individuals, families and communities caught up in these processes.
Where we live, this second point is vitally important because many of the impacts on individuals and families are private and "hidden".
She chooses not to mention all the previously poor black folk owners who sell those old brownstones for $ millions & then very happily move to cheaper neighborhoods, suburbs or the sunbelt states. They would tell you gentrification has been great for them.
I love gentrification. My real estate team is always looking to buy up property here in Chicago. Our main goal is not money, but bringing a higher standard of living. We have rebuilt numerous decrepit communities into safe, clean well kept environments Resulting in reduced criminal activity and an overall higher standard of living!
People make money and the neighborhood becomes livable as opposed to remaining a crime ridden shit hole. it's a win win.
Thank you for using the free market to better the world instead of complaining about it. It's not our fault for seeing need for a community and supplying it.
Yes but you are displacing low-income individuals
Since low income individuals are the majnority in chicago, they are the biggest market and will be pandered to. So there is no economic incentive to displace them.
gentrification is amazing, but socialist bitches like this girl are too short sighted and too emotional to rationally understand the long terms benefits of it, and of free economic initiative in general
I bet there's no crack being sold on the corners where this woman lives. No sound of gunfire, no wailing sirens, no crime to speak of.
Goondock Saints classic problem, reaction, solution
Create a problem, await reaction, offer a solution (that benefits the problem starter)
That’s not necessarily true. I live in a gentrified neighborhood and gun shot are still heard. Perhaps it’s less but now you never hear reporting on it because this neighborhood is being sold as “up and coming” and are selling the illusion that crime has been eradicated. Additionally, there are huge homeless encampments all over the city and there has been an increase in small petty crimes. If anything the neighborhood looks worst now that there are homeless camps everywhere but where are these people supposed to go when rent all throughout the county has skyrocketed along with cost of living. How are people supposed to move to cheaper areas? That requires them leaving their jobs for even further uncertainty.
So gentrification is the answer? You can't think of any other possible way we can try to reduce crime and other forms of social violence in neighborhoods?
@@lonettehistoria1663 Are you talking to me? I never said such a thing, can you point out what I actually said that confused you to believe I think gentrification is the answer or are you just putting your own thoughts into my comment?
"When we put gentrification in its proper context and understand it as a manifestation of inequality..." It is not that simple. This is but one aspect of gentrification. You are stripping away the complexities of the issue, narrowing the scope to support your thesis. Your opinion offers valid points. (I am not disagreeing with your message.)
When did she say this was the ONLY aspect of gentrification? When does this narrow the scope, and why is it an issue that her thesis is being supported, an important thesis that is grounded in reality? EVERYTHING SHE IS SAYING IS TRUE.
I'm a victim of direct displacement, n its sad they kicking out families, for community living mofos!!! 4 ppl get together n pay 500 a peice for a $2000 apartment!! What about our families???
Dont have too many kids
@@huyharth what does that have to do with it?
Gentrification would be great if the original neighbourhood did not have to move out. Many of them would have already built a life there and been part of the community. Displacement of people is not so important in business, so policy makers should step in when the free market is not compatible with human values. I agree that rent control alone can stifle economic progress in the area, but this could be counteracted by investing in things like neighbourhood centres, better schools, and transport links - the goal being encouraging the sense of community and creating more economic opportunity. The suggestion in the video of using tax from recently revitalised areas to improve poor inner city areas sounds like a good way to fund this extra investment, and is one that is sure to pay out in the long run. I wish Stacey would have spoken more about different kinds of policies to counteract the displacement of people, but still a good talk.
maybe the people living there should try to build up the community instead of defending criminals
Joseph, i totally agree with you. I was even confused about gentrification!! I sadly never got taught this in high school believe it or not. And now i am starting to understand.
But how many have actually "built a life there" when they never save for a home?
I'm not trying to be an ass, just curious... Where has revitalization, according to her definition, worked?
Well there are not a lot of programs. However I am proof. I was an at risk youth and I dropped out of high school. I participated in the National guard youth corps (a 5 month program) and got my high school diploma, joined the military and got a degree. This all happened because there was a program in place to help me get my High school diploma.
If you want to live somewhere that never ever changes go move out to the middle of nowhere. Cities change; a dense population in constant flux. It's inevitable.
Adapt or die. It's ridiculous to tell people to not buy something and try to make it nicer.
In the Netherland it's different. We see that white dutch are displaced out of their neighbourhoods. Their home's are taken bij immigrants with different cultures.
For the Dutch it's now almost impossible to get an affordable house.
One of the effects of the mass immigration to Europe of the last decades.
Watch europe: the last battle on bitchute
It's a double edged sword. You can't gentrify for certain reasons, but if you do nothing, then the neighborhood just keeps declining and the poor people stay poor and living in a dangerous area. If people in an area are so against forced gentrification, why not make an effort to do some for yourself? If communities worked together to eradicate crime, drugs, prostitution, then the mark up for gentrification would be less, making it less appealing to investors. I highly doubt anyone actually likes living in a run down neighborhood with crime and gangs? People need to take more pride in the small things they do have. If it is a social issue, the government should be investing in the areas so you can 'gentrify' without displacing current residents. But people in those areas need to learn to take pride in the areas once they are 'revitilised'.
She forgets that Asians are also a big gentrifier. Look at any wealthier neighbourhood and its usually slightly whiter and 2 to 3 times more Asian than the national average.
Damn asians!!! How dare they be succesful!!! >:o
I wish gentrification would occur in my neighborhood. Id rather have a starbucks than random people hanging out on the streets at all hours of the night.
But you wouldn’t be able to live there after it happens so do you really want it. Like do you not understand what gentrification is. You mean revitalization....
Correction: You'd rather have random people hanging out on the streets at all hours of the night in a different place. Unless you are middle class or above, which means you are indirectly making people suffer the same things you don't want.
"I'd rather have a Starbucks than a crackhead, here, you take it."
I have been waiting years for my neighborhood to transition. Slowly but surely, the homeless and druggies are taking their shitshow on the road. And I don't care where, go away.
@@jermen5137 I dont think theyd say that if they were at risk of not being able to afford it
I am so confused about gentrification causing displacement because if you own your home, no one can force you to move. However, most of the people she (woman in the video) is referring to are renters, and I am not one to say it is fair lower income people might have to relocate, but life is not fair.
My parents taught me as a child (seriously) "Son life is not fair". When people rent, they are entirely dependent on the mercy of the landlord/property owner, and in America, we're supposed to be a free country. Therefore, being we are a free country we have what's called property rights, and property rights were one of the first concerns our founding fathers had in America (the land of the free).
" In Federalist 54, James Madison stated tersely: “Government is instituted no less for the protection of the property than of the persons of individuals.”
As Madison later elaborated, property rights are as important as personal rights because the two are intimately connected. The right to labor and acquire property is itself an important personal right and entitled to government protection; and the property acquired through the exercise of this personal right is entitled, by derivation, to an equal protection. As he put it in his “Address to the Virginia Convention”:
I am utterly confused by the woman in the video's rhetoric and her apparent racism against European Americans/Caucasians.
Currently, I live in an area in the midst of gentrification, and it is great. We have people of all nationalities moving here, Caucasian, Indian, Asian, and more upper/higher income people of color. So her trying to portray gentrification as something the big bad white privileged class is doing. Perhaps she should one read the Constitution, and pay attention to the people moving to these areas.
She has an agenda, and she simply wants to make Caucasians out to be the bad guys for taking advantage of an opportunity when it is available. People are business people, and we are going to make deals. It is what business people do, but I feel the woman in this video would like to see revitalization but at tax payers expense.
Being someone who leans more toward libertarian I see her idea as merely 'TAKING' from one group of people to give to another.
+Duke If you are a home owner and a developer wants to put a mall or bistros or a hospital etc where your home is located, the government can force you to move BUT they have to pay you, its called Eminent Domain.
em·i·nent do·main
the right of a government or its agent to expropriate private property for public use, with payment of compensation.
Most people when they sell, its a profit for them however the flip side is in some cases the profit isn't enough to be able to purchase another home in that area. Thats why I think you need to do your home work before you sign on the dotted line to ensure you will be able to purchase another decent home in a decent area.
If you are a renter and your landlord see's the neighborhood changing as well as the market rate increasing for rental property, he or she has the right to increase your rent which causes a lot of folks to move for lower rent OR if the property value increases or someone makes the landlord an offer for his property he cant refuse, he will sell and the renters have to move. The only thing with that this is now the neighborhood is SO expensive and the rental market rate has increased SOOO much until they cant afford to live in the neighborhood any longer so they are forced to live (quite often) in a less desirable neighborhood just to afford rent. This is exactly what is happening in my neighborhood. Fortunately, I'm blessed enough financially to be able to afford to stay. Hope this helps!
i love her points. i wish more talks about gentrification go over actionable policies or strategies to combat or even slow gentrification. I'm not sure what I can do to help as it seems a lot of it is addressed via policy change. what can the everyday person do aside from vote to make change happen?
Alright y’all
Is there a way that urban renewal/fixing up hood areas really works for everyone?
Many times I want to see hoods get fixed up but there’s gotta be a way to do it without screwing people over
Making it better increases property values. Doesn't matter what color the person is who does it. This lady is a race baiting politician, nothing more.
Interesting perspective, but she's way off the mark. Gentrification is good for the communities being gentrified. If you own a home in a poor neighborhood that becomes gentrified, then your property values go up. Historically neglected neighborhoods seeing investment is a good thing for everyone. Gentrification accomplishes the things she says she wants: improved housing, attracting businesses, making the neighborhood safe and clean. When a poor neighborhood becomes nice it ceases to be a poor neighborhood and people are lifted out of poverty. A neighborhood that gets nicer will always become more expensive to rent, that is the way the world works.
Poor people moving into ice neighborhoods also causes displacement…have a taste of your own medicine
News flash, this has been going on for ages. See NY city for example. No one is the victim
She's speaking to a audience of people that would be the gentrifiers. Gentrifiers already have this information and don't care.
Colette Hylan good I wouldn’t care either let’s make these neighborhoods safe
@@spookycrane9318 werent u paying attention!! We need MORE crime! >:o
99% of the people in that audience are probably the culprits behind gentrification hence the smug looks on their faces. This was entertainment for them as well as a way to stay on top of what they know vs what a victim of caucazoid hegemony doesn't know. No doubt they walked away from this "cute" TED talk feeling unthreatened.
what does it mean to rent something?
Is it really possible to know that ninety-nine percent of that audience in the video listening to Stacey Sutton are the culprits of gentrification? If they are the culprits, I would want them to be exposed to all of the elements of gentrification, especially it's consequences.
Yahweh hates uneven scales. All people motivated by greed will regret their life choices when the Messiah returns. Blessings!
lovelydove1920 Jesus doesn’t hate so no that’s not true lol
@@khenbornagain Yah hates sin but loves the sinner. Yah will be judging us according to how we have treated one another.
jesussaves13 and I don’t think judgement is a thing. That seems like a very human egoic concept. Pure love doesn’t judge, it holds space for you, seeks to understand you and hold you through your pain. It sees how your pain cause you to project that same pain out of fear and ignorance. There is no judgement. You should watch The Shack, and study Love more outside of biblical texts.
You believe in a mask!! With know truth of facts!
It was a good place place for poor or lower income people tolive, but now we build it up and raised prices so high that only rich people can afford to live there, that's gentrification.
Gentrification is modern day colonialism
+Tina Dod It's also modern day segregation
+ArmiiV Yeah? Well quit attacking us and we won't have to segregate. Open up your minds and start using your brains instead of your emotions.
MusicFan I'm a white male who is trying to integrate with the community and not trying to stir things up. I don't know what you are assuming...
ArmiiV
Good luck on integrating with ignorant black racists who hate you because of your skin color. You'll learn about it someday if you aren't careful but I hope all goes well for you.
MusicFan
It already has. And I hope you open your heart and release your hate. It will get you no where.
I disagree .. here in my country we've been against gentrification for many years and no development nor progress has been made ... Gentrification hurts but is necessary if not what's the point on seeing your city stay the same for decades ?
As a Puerto Rican from Brooklyn (like that should even matter for an argument), I think gentrification does have some negatives, with bad landlords scamming people out of their apartments and the disruption of the cultural sentiment of a neighborhood etc. But overall gentrification seems to be a good thing. Now people can walk around in a neighborhood without fear of getting mugged. Now you can actually buy food from a decent super market. Now you can take the subway to your station without getting harassed. Now you can walk around at night as a girl and feel safer.
soccerfc Puerto Rican from Chicago (not that it should matter) and I completely agree. People also don’t realize that the people that displace other races mostly are Hispanics. We move into cities like MAD and displace tons of other people
A bit one dimensional
This is why you should buy the property even thought it is cheap so developers have to pay you big money to buy your home
Addressing the situation as a whole, the hidden effects of gentrification are without a doubt harmful. For those who do not have a full understanding of its effects, below is a letter briefly portraying the point I wish to bring across. I had written this letter to be directed toward Michigan Senator Jim Ananich on addressing the issues within Flint, Michigan. Most would assume crime and poverty, but thats prevelant everywhere throughout the country. Gentrification is a very serious but unknown issue that I felt should be brought up..... Here is the just of the letter related to gentrification.
*".....Being raised in such a perplexed city, I have witnessed first hand the unjust civil behavior and discrimination directed toward the people within the city of Flint, toward true “FLINTSTONES”. My expertise on these issues includes a wide range of networks from different figures within the city. Having gone to Flint Community Schools for over 7 years, and living in a crime and poverty stricken neighborhood, I witness and experience the lifestyle of any other inner city citizen. Additionally, my mother founded her own 501(c)(3) non-profit organization which primarily outreaches mental health clients, drug addicts, and carriage town recipients. Simply put, the underprivileged welfare recipients. Contrary to that, I live in a neighborhood that is attacked by investors trying to send these underprivileged citizens into exile. I do not find crime nor poverty an issue within the city. Those benefactors occur in any given environment. I, as a young “flintstone”, find the unfair privileges from the 1% and the effects of gentrification to be the realistic and unlawful issue.*
*It can easily be identified that people are leaving Flint as their choice because of unemployment and the economy. Yet, the city lacks to realize that they are forcing them out as well, not by choice. In my opinion, I feel regardless of your social status, you should not be discriminated against by corporations and investors. Just because they are homeless, have an addiction, are welfare recipients or have been diagnosed with mental disabilities, does not mean they are incompetent and therefore they should not be taken advantage of. With the renovating and gentrification within the city, a more “friendly” appeal is supposedly given. However, with social outlets in the neighborhood being dismantled, it provides no place for these underprivileged citizens to go. Within my mothers non-profit, these people filled out questionnaires, and the trend seems to be to “kick them to the curb”. Helping assist with this operation, I first hand witnessed, the sweetest and most loving people tell their stories of rejection, based upon their social statuses. These people simply wish for a sense of self-worth. Which the city fails to give them because they are unknowingly presumed to be uneducated, incompetent, and cold-hearted. Left and right, communities are gentrified solely for control. Full steadied races have begun to take over an entire street stretching from Mott park renovations to the once infamous Atwood Stadium. Unfortunately, these renovations apart of their gentrification acts, are serving no purpose in the community. “Where is the logic behind an economically struggling city to sell a stadium, filled with economically exponential potential, to be sold for a mere dollar?” And yet, it is not used for the community in any way. A high school football stadium that no high school plays at. Instead, it becomes an ice rink in the winter, which in reality, has no desire within the inner city population. Empowerment of the people, in my opinion, is what keeps a community going. That said, the egotistical attitude from this 1% of people, does not bring a community together, it divides it.*
*I understand life can be a business, but that doesn't excuse tearing a community apart. The Green Bay Packers, an iconic franchise in professional football is a multimillion dollar organization, and yet, is run by the people. Unless the gentrification brings people together, then the community will continue to plummet downwards. The lack of self worth bestowed upon by the 1% will make poverty even more prevalent and add more struggle within our communities. Fellowship can uplift such a catastrophe. However, “if no one is left, then how can you fellowship?”. With no one left, then it results in no community either. Desolate for the people; and yet, prosperous for the 1%.*
*Truly, this is now a society issue and no longer a political issue. However, when our own people fail to speak for our city and feel unwanted. It becomes highly imperative to bring attention to.*
*Sincerely,*
*An uneducated, incompetent, welfare recipient."*
I thing the root cause is that low income people are not being paid enough even the the country as a whole has been the richest it has ever been. A minimum wage increase ti 15$ would help more and reduce gentrification impacts.
wont work price of everything will go up
@momochasaobao Landlords make more money renting then selling houses and they're greedy.
"Fundamentally altering a culture and character of"... disinvestment, poverty and crime... sound like positives to me. Sure, some people don't want to leave where they are, but she's not talking about the people who now benefit from the value of their property increasing OR the decrease in crime, increase in funding for schools, decrease in poverty etc.
Amor Royer it’s just a decrease in poverty in that particular area. The displaced poor people are still going to be poor in whatever area they end up moving to.
I read a thesis about how children that live in an area before gentrification benefit from newer businesses, money coming into the area, updated schools, safer parks, etc. They are also much more likely to attend college.
@@MrJAnthony91 doesn't that suggest they may have remained poor if the area didn't get any investment to start with? Also, what about the ones who DON'T leave outright? This may equate to a net benefit overall though some may not reap that benefit for a number of reasons.... I'd love to see more studies on this.
The issue with your statement is that you're focusing on the property and not actually the people. How will most of these low income people afford the rent spike?
Gentrification IS NOT a Social Problem! It is just a process where people are running away from expensive places. And just like every process, it has side effects. Good ones: City gets safer, salaries get higher because there is more money in the local economy, new buildings, and shops, more job opportunities. The bad one: life gets a bit more expensive.
No other bad dude effects?
If you didn't grow up poor, you don't understand.
If you didn't grow up rich you don't understand.
Gentrification has it's pluses and minuses. No matter which side of the argument you are on, you have to agree with that. Hands down, gentrification makes a neighborhood safer. That's not an opinion it's a fact. However, small businesses/original residents gets kicked out. One important concept to take away is that not all former residents were bad or in gangs. At the end of the day, the impacted group should be protected/compensated. In NYC we are heading into the right direction with the 80/20 program. It's not the best solution, but a solution nonetheless.
Well "White Flight" kinda balances all of that out, doesn't it? As Black people become more and more displaced, they began to move to other areas and (for whatever reason) White folks began to move out and those neighborhoods become "Black neighborhoods". Unfortunately, the prices usually decrease in those areas (something we need to work on as a people) and the cycle continues. Been happening for decades. We all know that part of town, neighborhood, school, church and even shopping center/mall that use to be predominantly White. Every city and town in the US has them.
Good and bad of gentrification in my opinion,
Good: property values go up
Bad: taxes go up
Good: job creation
Bad: jobs may not go to locals
Good: reduces crime statistics
Bad: doesn't necessarily reduce crime although theres usually an increased police presence.
Good: diversity
Definitely Bad: cost of living pushes some locals out.
Good: most times they update local utilities.
Bad: some claim loss of neighborhood identity.
Maybe good: evolution of that areas identity.
Good: more access to groceries
Bad : said groceries might cost more in that area now. Adding to cost of living.
So predominantly "black and brown" people don't invest in their own communities and cry when non "black and brown" people invest
Black an Brown do invest where you comming from
+Jesus Velazquez any links
bzizzo but the people who invest is white
bingo
So predominantly white banks to loan out money for black business to even start.
Anyone paying 2k per month should move maybe out of state and buy a house. A lot of times gentrification is good for the displaced. I have talked to poor Latinos that moved to Atlanta and paid 450 a month to rent a house. U can't rent anything in L.A. for that.
So since my wife is a brown person, (to use your words) can we only live where the majority families are mixed like us? You do know (but I am not sure you do) a large number of white people are poor and working class. But there white skin mean they cannot move into low rent neighborhoods?
Area where I live had really bad violent crime. But gentrification really helped lower crime
My thoughts on why fighting gentrification it is a dumb idea:
-The whole idea that you have high paying professional jobs in downtown areas, and then surround those areas with with lower income people, and then have the workers for the high paying jobs living an hour away, and driving in to work or taking a commuter rail is unnatural and absurd. This arose when traffic wasn't bad and people were racist enough that they needed their own communities away from minorities.
-The gentrification process actually shows people's relaxed views on race now. It wouldn't have happened if rich white people still refused to be on the same block as minorities.
-Going back to the first point, in real estate you pay mostly for location, and when you refer to location, the biggest part of rent is the proximity to employment. You get what you pay for.
-Stopping gentrification basically means refusing to ever fix a neighborhood and dooming people to an awful existence. Or it means fixing it up but refusing to let anybody move there. How fair is that?
-Cities need more buildings and high rises to fight high rents. This means tearing down the brownstones. Even if its a luxury unit, it means that 1,000 1%ers will now be leaving their brownstones, and a middle class family or group of young professionals can live affordable. Meaning that the lower income people can now afford the displaced professionals place.
-If you want the social programs to take care of the lower income people, you need the tax base paying taxes in your city. Letting them live in the suburbs will continue to invest in the suburbs and not your city.
Um you guys moved to the burbs to get away so stay away
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GENTRIFICATION HAS NOTHING TO DO WITH RACE. IT HAS TO DO WITH CLASS. There's examples of many white blue collar/white ethnic neighborhoods that have been totally railroaded by this. Hispanic neighborhoods, in some small cases, have also been effected. Once again. Get that through your head. Everyone, of every color, who isn't a 1% should oppose this.
I can give you a list of cities (including the area I live in) in which you can have success and low-crime without pricing out locals.
You forget that the people being effected aren't just poor people but working class, tax-paying, law abiding citizens (in most cases it's these people).
A citiy should not exclusively cater to one class of people. This is America. Make room for everybody or GTFO.
Class prejudice should not be a hinderence. This is really a cut-and-dry issue.
I don't care if rich people live in my city. They should. But I should be allowed to live in an affordable neighborhood as well if it's already affordable--there shouldn't be a DELIBERATE plan to make that difficult for such a MASSIVE population of people. If a tiny %4 of your metro is non-wealthy, fine. But if a significant portion is you as the city leaders/planners/politicos have a responsibility to make a balanced mixed economy. There's many countries overseas and many terrorities that acccomplished this. So the BS "GENTRIFICATION IS THE ONLY WAY" nonsense is silly.
It's just proof that the Left and the Democratic Party are totally dead as truly progressive. The "War On Poverty" was essentially abandoned. thje GOP is useless as well. Both parties, both leaderships are pointless.
This is a common sense issue.
You keep ignoring the elepehant of the room--class prejudice. It's just basic classic classism. It's old and exist in most major modernized, capitalist societies. So rather than defending the wealthy, who don't give two shits about you (I doubt you're an uber-rich mogul arguing on youtube), try to actually use common sense to deal with the people actually negatively being effected by this.
Your theory doesn't
My city and area has had successful urban renewel programs, and successfully had mixed housing and been able to supply jobs for members of almost every socio-economic strata. It's possible, most people do it. although it exists elswhere (in the UK For example), the gentrification buzz is an American obsession. It's just about getting more and more. It's strictly speaking a cheap cash grab.
Urban Renewel and gentrification are seperate things, as is community empowerment. If you have the first and third, then you really don't need the second. You're just making petty excuses without researching the history of how forced, accelerated urban planning harms multiple communities, especially if this happens WITHOUT their involvement in the process.
But the problem is that we have a few hundred square miles of real estate in the downtown parts of major cities, with millions of miles of land available in America. How can you tell a demographic of people that they "don't belong in that part" or that they can't live there unless some other people are given free rides to live there too? I don't think that you should, it should be based on who owns the land, and who is willing to pay for it. I'm not a huge capitalist in most respects, but when it comes to where you live, I think that its a system that's the most fair, at least when it comes to very scarce land.
I think that communities need to be aggressively planned, but a better solution to destroying the appeal of scarce land is to invest heavily in creating new, affordable communities in land that is further away from the source, and can strategically be used to balance the country out, keep costs down, and give people home ownership, and a sense of stability and community.
Major brand cities should be be transient areas for high performing professionals. It should be a reward to live there, and you should be living there because you are pursuing a professional dream. If there's no specific reason to live there, where you live can be serviced just as well by living much further out from employment that you aren't at the moment eligible for anyway.
A community is more than a 'plan' to the majority of people though. It runs deeper. A community is a true COMMUNITY. It's not a real estate wet dream. Sure, the law says otherwise, but the law used to say interracial marriage was illegal too. History has shown time and time again that just because something is in place doesn't mean fighitng it is unrealistic or pointless, or that it gains no results.
I agree with one thing: mixed-income planning for a desginated area on the whole is a good idea. My area has done this and it's worked.
Forced, aggressive gentrification as opposed to proper affordable housing planning in the inner-city is the way to go. If you kick everybody out, I have a problem wtih that. Which is essentially, in the 21st centuyry, what gentrification amounst to. Especially as the further away people go to live away from the gentrified areas, the more the gentrification brigade keeps moving the process to the next blcok over. Repeatedly. To fit real estate developer interests and not the interests of the actual citizens. Same thing with the bought politicians, on both sides of the isle, who only care about filling their pockets and votes rather than representing the best interests of their constituents.
I don't believe, however, that a city should cater to only one group of people. A metropolis was designed to be huge and have a mix of people since ancient times. It flies into the face of what a 'city' truly is.
The majority of this country, including the endless parade of idiots posting on the internet even those defending gentrification (why a plumber or a kid working at 7-11 would think gentrification is good is beyond me), is not uber-rich %1 or young professionals. And the country is heavily urbanized. So a good chunk of a city's population isn't giong to be these groups either. If you're a civic leader, you need to be realistic about the demographics of your city and adjust using your own intellect and common sense. It shouldn't be the other way around. Citizens don't ADJUST for the developers, the developers adjust for the citizens, both new as well as older residents.
🎉 good talk, was great listening, I finally got a better understanding 🙏🏾
I grew up in Philadelphia and during my childhood our neighborhood went through ghettofication. Thousands of families were displaced against our will. Home values were destroyed. The culture and character of the neighborhood was radically changed. It felt totally unfamiliar and unsafe to the long-time residents. We were no longer wanted there. So, if I had to choose between gentrification and ghettofication, I would pick gentrification every time. See the books Row House Days and Row House Blues for details. BTW, we were told neighborhoods change and there was nothing we could do. Get over it.
You moved they won
@@abelflores1593 So if I come back, they lose?
@@jackmyers1631 how about if you start your own subdivision! And then a couple of decades later they want that to
@@abelflores1593 According to the real estate laws they can have that as well. My only defense is to have money and keep on moving.
@@jackmyers1631 I hear that Keep On Truckin
People have the right to live where they can afford, end of story. The people who complain about gentrification are often the same people who believe we should allow more immigration (which I don't disagree with, but its hypocritical). The entire US is gentrified since the Native Americans were removed from their land. If you're priced out, thats just how it is.
+GreatJoFo Exactly this isn't a black or white thing. Look up Bowie maryland, wealthy blacks have moved in and basically kicked out poor whites. The poor whites who lived in bowie can no longer afford the taxes. People need to stop making everything a race war
+GreatJoFo Feels like you either didn't watch this whole video or are some upper middle class child for whom empathy is hard to get to.
+Jason Young Everybody complains about Harlem being gentrified recently, but seem to forget that Harlem was originally a Dutch village in the 17th century, became a Italian/Jewish neighborhood by the 19th century, and only became a black neighborhood during the Great Depression. Huh, moving in when prices are down? Sound familiar.
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That's my point. Look I get it changing neighborhoods is hard especially for people that have lived there for years. However, progress a part of life.
Everybody complains about Harlem being gentrified recently, but seem to forget that Harlem was originally a Dutch village in the 17th century, became a Italian/Jewish neighborhood by the 19th century, and only became a black neighborhood during the Great Depression. Huh, moving in when prices are down? Sound familiar.
Ahh I see you what you did there........
Ok, so people moved to harlem because the prices were low (given the pay scale and not many job opportunities for minorities). How is it the same as people WITH money wanting to buy up properties in low income areas (most do not own their homes, they are renters and are forced to move when owners sell their properties). Many low income, hard working people are being forced out of their homes and can't afford to stay in the area. This is Displacement. Its not just your long time neighbor deciding to move one day, its a whole block of long time neighbors having to move at once. All of a sudden, homes are going up in price so owners who rent their properties start raising the rents to reflect the sudden boom and now people who thought it wouldnt effect them, find they too, can no longer afford to live in their homes and have to move. Its crazy.
So, what is your point? This community doesn't belong to the Europeans! They inhabited here! (the carpet -baggers, if you will).This country belongs to the ingenuous (BROWN)people. If you really want to get oxymoron about it. The so called Africans came with ya. So it's truly nobody's land. Geeez!
Many of the people fled from Harlem because they wanted their neighborhood to be “racially pure”.
But those Dutch chose to leave because they didn’t want to be around blacks. Harlem residents aren’t choosing to leave they are being forced to leave because of high property values.
If the families getting displaced have been there for so long, don't they own real estate that largely benefits them when the real estate market booms?
A man in St Louis bought a 50,000 dollar house in the 1970s and recently sold for a few millions because the city wanted to build a high rise where it stood. If he loved the house he could have held on longer; eventually they gave him enough money to move. Now he can buy a condo in the same neighborhood.
The city grows and adapts. We can't stop it from doing so because it would make people move out; if your family lived in that neighborhood for 50 years it's their own fault they don't own property and benefit from the development.
The recession of 2008 brought down property values in many places. Your data is from 11' to 14' right when many communities are increasing in value and recovering from the recession. I would like to see something showing how gentrification differs from this.
Would it be correct to assume the gentrification is the systematic breaking up of communities through pricing them out? And this leading to their displacement?
Everything she said about people not feeling their neighborhoods are recognizable and not a part of those places any longer sounds an awful lot like "xenophobia."
Yeah, embrace diversity.....
apparently diversity is only good when white people are displaced.
No it doesn’t. Not at all.
not all whites are overprivliged. ethnocentrism is one thing that holds lower income people back.
She is on point, but I have point to make why gentrification is so successful in pushing out low income people (blacks and brown people). Integration of blacks during the civil right movement was our biggest mistake, it seemed good at the time, but no race was ever meant to integrate, in mean, think about t it people, why the hell would whites want to share their wealth with blacks, integration destroyed black owned businesses and black communities over a span of 50 years. Prior to the civil right movements, blacks owned 30% of America's wealth, fast forward to now, blacks only own less than 1%.
So you got to ask your self the question? What good did integration do for blacks? Not only did integration destroy the black communities, it cause blacks over time to separate from their own people. Had blacks expected Malcom X solution, gentrification would not even exist in the black communities.
@Seed of Israel. Why waste my time. Peace brother.
Ownership is EVERYTHING…..try to buy in and own the property you live in, if you do then you won’t be affected by gentrification…..you’ll stay put and enjoy the property appreciation and new value.
Well delivered !!!
I like her solutions piece without watering down that Gentrification is born out of a history of racial inequality.
The people who own the property can set the rent at whatever they want and what they want to do with their property is none of your business.
Dimitri Korsakov sorry we need affordable housing these landlords are gouging the rentors anyhow. Landlords get help from the city in many ways but not rentors