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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Where did all the African Americans go?  I keep wondering this.

Are they going to PGC?  Where are they going?[/quote]

One thing that bugs me a lot about articles about gentrification is when they talk about residents being forced out or displaced and are missing some simple demographics...people are not immortal. When I moved to Petworth the vast majority of my neighbors were African Americans who owned their homes and were elderly. A lot of them had owned their homes solince the 1960s or 70s. Many of those neighbors have since passed away, and some have moved into nursing homes or in with their kids. The gentrification is happening here mainly because of the aging of the neighborhood. Nearly all of these houses are gutted and flipped when they sell.[/quote]

+1. I used to live in Philly in a neighborhood that gentrified significantly, and this was basically what happened. People kids had already moved out to suburbs or other neighborhoods when they got married and had kids, and when the elderly parents passed away, the grown kids sold the house for $$$. [/quote]

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