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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There aren't enough gentrifiers in my neighborhood in NE. 
Plenty of drug dealing and moped riding hoodies though.  Can we also trade one of the 5 liquor stores in 2 blocks for a Starbucks? Pretty please??  [/quote]

i hope this is sarcasm[/quote]

Not one sentence was sarcastic. Do you need clarification on anything? Gentrification is coming very slowly in my neck of the woods (Brentwood). [/quote]

+100. Gentrification is one funny word, in that it tries hard to give some negative connotations to something THAT IS CLEARLY POSITIVE.[/quote]

"Gentrification" describes urban renewal that involves an influx of middle and upper middle class people that displaces lower middle class and low income people. Whether it's a positive thing often depends on your perspective. Early adopter gentrifiers often reap the benefits of cheap housing costs, but they have to also live with the negative aspects of living in area with a lot of poverty (crime, few amenities, etc.). When businesses start moving in, housing prices go up, making it difficult for low income people (some of whom have lived in the neighborhood for generations, who may own their homes, etc.) to continue to afford to live there. Sometimes the money being thrown at low income home owners by developers is just too good to pass up.

Having amenities and lower crime is not a bad thing, in and of itself. When those things come at the cost of forcing out all the people that used to live in an area, many people do not think it's a good thing.[/quote]

So what do you call these low income people who displaced the previous set of middle class people (many of them white who were forced to sell their homes for far less than the value prior to the riots) after the riots?[/quote]

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