| You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization? |
| Why would someone protest gentrification? You think certain neighborhoods should be racially exclusive? |
I encourage gentrification, as you call it, because it improves neighborhoods and makes them safer. |
| Gentrification = Progress |
Gentrification causes people to lack homes. |
boo hoo |
| Why would I want to do that? |
And it causes other people to obtain those homes. What's your point? |
Wow. What a shocking level of callousness toward unhoused people. Those same people who you call the cops on simply for existing! |
How so? |
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I’m continuing to live in my home in Columbia Heights and not sell it to a developer who would chop it up into overpriced units. I also continue to send my children to public school.
What did YOU do today to prevent gentrification, OP? |
OP here. Exclusively patronizing very local businesses, sending my children to public school, not calling the cops over a party. |
Which “very local businesses”? |
Why? Do they have fewer homes standing as a result? Do they disappear? |
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We all want the good sides of gentrification (jobs, safety, education, etc) but feel for the displaced in the process.
I didn't do anything today. But I am prepared to sell at a lower price to a family rather to a developer. I am (secretly) prepared to sell to a family that will increase the ethnic diversity of my neighborhood. I am prepared to vote for people who pay attention to that sort of thing - but I can't any, honestly. All local officials seem to focus on either woke or anti-woke values, and when in office, they're just keeping the status quo to go on to higher things. |