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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the existence of Black neighborhoods, queer neighborhoods, chinatowns, ktowns, etc is not segregation- the withholding of resources from those communities is segregation. the gentrification of those spaces into sterile capital playgrounds is segregation.
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i would happily live the rest of my life in a queer neighborhood if i could afford it- but i can’t. these areas are always prime candidates for gentrification. expanding housing options that do not include existing neighbors accelerates the loss of these cultural areas.
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You know America is trending majority minority. At some point cultural neighborhoods will be the norm.
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Someone has not studied history it seems or even where the word ghetto comes from.
Hint look up Venice and what they did when they pushed people of a certain ethnicity into only a area for them.
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So the accusations of "white flight" that still exists- are actually good for various cultures to take root and flourish?