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Sure, but there is no way to bus them to the suburbs. Therefore, housing policy is our only remedy. Your monomania about "poor people's real estate" is pretty touching, but there's absolutely zero evidence that poor homeowners are being forced from their property by gentrifiers. When they sell, it's either to make a killing, or because they've died and their children & grandchildren want to sell and divide up the proceeds. Gentrification-driven displacement is almost nonexistent.[/quote]

I don't know if gentrification-driven displacement doesn't exist, but I do know (from reading here) that gentrifiers want poor people  to leave quietly so there won't be too many poor kids in the schools.   A few are fine - desirable even, giving the neighborhood that "diverse" feel, but too many are disconcerting.

Wait -- Maybe a way could be devised to bus kids to suburban schools, instead of uprooting people from their homes to get them out of a city  where they are no longer welcomed because gentrifiers want to get most of them out of the schools.

If they want to leave, fine, but they should not be forced out.  Nobody should be forced out of their homes because it's in someone else's best interest that they leave.[/quote]

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