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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Gentrification only happens when long-term residents want to cash out. Why shouldn’t they be able to make more money via a home sake than they ever would working?[/quote]

This has always been my question. If it's so bad, long-term residents don't have to move. They can stay and enjoy the benefits of gentrification. However, they want to cash out and move out. It's their choice.[/quote]And if they're renting and their home gets sold out from under them? That has happened in my neighborhood.[/quote]

That’s called life. You’ll have to move. [/quote]

Right? These aren’t endangered species. They’re normal people like anywhere else who need to move if they can’t afford the rent.[/quote]

But many people will tell you that the poor black are deserving of protections not afforded to poor whites. It's bizarre.[/quote]

It's only "bizarre" if you're completely ignorant to the long history of denying equal benefits and opportunities to black families, through redlining, blockbusting, segregation in the GI Bill, and a multitude of other racial injustices in which white families were encouraged and given substantial assistance to become homeowners while black families were blocked at every turn.

You're damn right black families are more deserving of protection from being displaced, it's the least we can do after generations of stacking the deck against them that specifically put them at greater risk of being displaced.  [/quote]

Exactly. [/quote]

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