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[quote=Anonymous]Let me get this correct. If we build supermarkets and amenities people want in Ward 8 actually want, "other" people will find those communities to be more desirable. They will then move into those communities.

You are worried that they will then turn to the Ward 8 residents and offer them money for their homes. What they would then do with that money I suppose would be mystery.

Meanwhile the previously "poorer" community now has all of these new amenities that attracted new residents who are now putting their kids in the half empty schools and this is a huge problem because...well...I am not sure really.

Now the area becomes trendy and more people want to move in and offer more money to the long term residents and I suppose they might sell (not sure why but they might)

So help me out here. This is easy and doable today, but those initial houses would not sell for as much as Ward 3 homes. So we go without helping the Ward 8 residents because we simply cannot make as much money.

And we tell the world that we don't build in Ward 8 because that would potentially displace Ward 8 residents who might sell their homes. And we use the ugly word "gentrification" to justify doing nothing because that makes us feel better about ourselves.

Great plan GGW.[/quote]

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