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Award-winning bestselling SFF writer & reviewer. I use robust autoblockers due to harassment. They catch some friendlies. Unavoidable; sorry. She/her.

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    1. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      N. K. Jemisin Retweeted Bo Bolander

      A thought, inspired by this thread by @BBolander, and spurred also by feedback I've heard re THE CITY WE BECAME. Folks. Gentrification is not good for cities, unless you're a landlord. It's not even good for landlords in the long run.https://twitter.com/BBolander/status/1330969147300261891 …

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      Bo BolanderVerified account @BBolander
      You know how people in His Dark Materials become zombified passive gray versions of themselves if they have their daemons cut away? I think about that every time i look at San Francisco real estate for some reason pic.twitter.com/IU9mgzdt4s
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    2. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      30 seconds of googling tells me part of the reason why ppl think it's good: the first definition I see talks about "improving housing and attracting new businesses". Sounds good, right? Sure, current residents get displaced, but that just happens. Net good overall, right? No.

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    3. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      First of all, that displacement is anything but the natural outcome of supply and demand. Think about the treatment of poor Black residents of NOLA post-Katrina. And in NYC -- man, folks think I made up the deed theft subplot in TCWB. I didn't need to.https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/21/nyregion/deed-theft-brooklyn.html …

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    4. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      Again and again, this country steals from BIPoC communities. We build healthy neighborhoods and they deliberately position highways to destroy them. We build thriving towns, they bomb them. Gentrification is a modern, "gentler" continuation of this cycle.

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    5. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      (Voiceover: It is not gentle. Police brutality operates in tandem with gentrification. Plus there's the chronic effects of environmental racism, food deserts/swamps, poor healthcare access, homelessness... Gentrification kills people all the time.)

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    6. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      But let's consider the word itself -- rooted in "gentry," or wealthy landowners. That's primarily who gentrification benefits (in the short term). What kinds of "new businesses" move in with the gentry? The kinds of businesses they like. What kinds of housing? What they can buy.

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    7. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      Here in NYC that means grocery stores dwindle because the wealthy dine out more. It means our subways catch fire twice a month -- because the wealthy drive cars, so the state cuts investment in public transportation (eventually killing it).https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z1KLpf_7tU …

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    8. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      The businesses we lose are *the ones cities need to survive.* They're replaced by trendy businesses better suited to a tourist resort. We lose permanent residents, families, and get instead folks who stay only a few years -- if they live here at all.https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2020/01/american-housing-has-gone-insane/605005/ …

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    9. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      There's no long-term benefit for cities. Short term they look neater (tho not nicer), get a richer tax base, etc. Long-term, they lose population, innovation, infrastructure, political power. It becomes a service/tourism economy, much more fragile than it was.

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    10. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      Then the city no longer generates culture (the wealthy consume art; they suck at making it), no longer supports family life or real communities, and no longer has economic flexibility. We lose a powerhouse for the nation's economy and get another playground for the rich.

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      N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

      How long are the trend-chasers who moved into a gentrifying city likely to stay, once the city's not trendy anymore? How will businesses stay open without a big work force? How long are those investment condos going to stay valuable in a shrinking, boring city?

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        2. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

          I guess we'll see, since NYC and some other cities are now moving toward this later stage of gentrification. Personally? I think we're going to lose those cities. Maybe other cities will step up, but that's a lot of churn instead of forward movement.

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        3. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

          Anyway. tl;dr, Gentrification is gross and racist and classist and it strangles cities. I turned down the TED talk folks so thank you for coming to my long-ass Twitter thread.

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        4. N. K. Jemisin‏Verified account @nkjemisin 23 Nov 2020

          (Note: all of this is an EXTREMELY SIMPLIFIED breakdown. There are ninety-eleven activists, scholars, and civic leaders who are experts in this stuff. I've read 2 books on it. Go talk to them if you want to know more!)

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