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Will Stancil
@whstancil
People are making fun of this tweet, but this is the explicit ideology of the affordable housing proponents that my institute has been fighting for decades and which dominate all affordable housing policy in the Twin Cities
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Josh
@rad_planner
in an ideal society, there would still be cultural neighborhoods that provide exclusive, safe spaces for those cultures to be preserved and to grow. believing that these clusters would be better if integrated into whiteness/heteronormativity is of a settler mindset.
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Roberto A. Jiménez Rivera
@hashtagRoberto
I think the key is recognizing that the reason for their existence is segregation, but their continued existence does not have to be segregated. I for one would hate to see us continue to lose Latino neighborhoods for the sake of integration.
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Zyzzima
@lbuprofin
People can self-segregate how they see fit, but there isn’t a good way for institutions to be doing the segregating.
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Zyzzima
@lbuprofin
“Taking steps to whiten POC communities” sounds a bit conspiratorial.. nobody is plotting to do that. People are self-sorting as they always do, and in a nation growing more tolerant/globalized, that naturally results in more mixed spaces.
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Roberto A. Jiménez Rivera
@hashtagRoberto
I mean there’s also plenty of white ppl self sorting and gentrifying POC communities. We should be protecting those communities from that gentrification so they can retain their cultural importance for communities of color
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Zyzzima
@lbuprofin
Protect them by making enough room for everyone, or protect them by.. excluding other ethnicities?
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TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗
@TheOmniZaddy
Sure, but even assuming zero moving out + displacement — the higher the non-Latin share of the neighborhood denizens, the less it becomes a “Latino neighborhood”, and this is fine. The same has happened to Italian and Jewish enclaves in NYC where Chinese and Latinos moved in…
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TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗
@TheOmniZaddy
…and the same will happen when others move into our enclaves and we stop becoming enclaves as well. I personally have no interest in seeing “Chinatown” remain purely Chinese, or even majority Chinese — some of my favorite restaurants and shops would be nice to keep, that’s it 🤷🏻‍♂️
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TheOmniZaddy 🌹🔰🏗
@TheOmniZaddy
(This is important because more Chinese restaurants are clothing — but because our successive generations have achieved social and economic mobility! This is something to treated not as tragedy, but rather as a cause for applause and celebration.)
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