The issue is much more complicated than either you or anti-gentrification people make it out to be.
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Why is rent going up? Is it organic or are real estate speculators bidding it up? Are commercial taxes rising due to economic activity or is the city driving out local business to make room for a Walmart?
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Is it the gentrification people have an issue with or the associated stratification of their society/neighborhood? I think its just that gentrification is an overt signal pointing this out.
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Gentrification can be good but it rarely stops before it wrecks things. When all of my musician/artist friends had to move out of San Francisco starting in the late 90s it sucked, a whole scene and culture is gone, replaced by people who have no idea what preceded them.
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But the neighborhood is safer, the food is better and things are cleaner and nicer. But less diverse, culturally less interesting, more white and more boring.
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WOW. First you say San Francisco is filthy then you support gentrification which only serves rich white people, so tell me, how long have you been in the Nazi party?
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It's a simple economic principles at play. Nothing to feel guilty about.
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Lol I thought gentrification was when white people start moving into black parts of town and making them nice
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NIMBY to the max
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That's not exactly correct, and it's about what gets better - and who gets to utilise those better things. Most places that become gentrified are initially places where creatives (musicians, artists etc), young people and PoC live - and they live there because it's cheap.
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