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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sorry, your  position demands a lot of things happening for the people pushed out by gentrification that  are not likely to happen unless there is a strong coordinated effort to make them happen - low income housing, funds and good programs shifting to the right schools at the right time.  With all the money already spent on reform, there has not been success in these areas. Instead, schools in the poor wards are still doing terribly (and ward 3 still thrives).

As real estate becomes more expensive in the gentrifying areas, the poor people already living there will need cheaper alternatives.  That's a no-brainer.

The whole "they'll be better off" rationale is just that - a rationalization.

I'm not against gentrification, but let's get real -- the benefit goes to the gentrifiers.  Rationalizing that you're helping the indigents may help you sleep better at night, but it doesn't guarantee that their situation will be improved once they cede the neighborhood to the gentrifiers.

For poor kids to get the educational benefit of gentrification, the socio-economic balance in the schools needs to be reversed.  This requires a huge population shift and shuffle.  When the high SES people move in, low SES people need to disperse widely, to get the benefit of majority middle-class kids in their classes. So where do they go?[/quote]
How about the massive Hope VI project in Near Southeast?[/quote]

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