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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]in Baltimore gentrification could proceed without displacement[/quote]

Displacement is crucial for successful end-stage gentrification

The people willing to pay $400,000 for a painted lady (google it) with no parking or a 5,000 sq ft warehouse loft space don't want to live amongst the original population. They want to be surrounded by people like them, not by hoodrats. [/quote]

This sounds like trolling to me.   And of course the experience in DC, Alexandria, NYC, etc is quite different. [/quote]

Just an owner of a company that's made a very good run of renovating homes in places where gentrification is occurring.

I've been able to see and study it up close since 1986, when we did our very first home remodel in a run down ghetto called "Logan Circle".

And if you knew the whole history of Georgetown, instead of just what you think you know, you'd realize how right I am.

Gentrification has stages. Georgetown represents the end-stage. U-street is advanced mid-stage. H-street NE is early mid-stage. Minnesota Ave NE and  Alabama Ave SE is early-stage.

The gentrifiiers that can afford the mid-stages, can't afford the end stage. And they're being used, as a tool, by the people who CAN afford it, to push out anyone who used to live in that neighborhood, and make it suitable for them. It seems it takes about 15 years or so to make the transition from each stage, based on what I've seen.

So no one really cares that it "sounds like trolling" to you.

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