Anonymous
Post 05/30/2019 05:52     Subject: DC is Tempe most gentrified city by % in the USA
Anonymous wrote:Gentrification is not so pleasent in my Ward 4 neighborhood. You don’t even get a hello from the new neighbors.

You know, it’s the “smile” effect and nothing else.



Same in all. DC used to have many southern charm characteristics such as people sitting out front and also greetings. That was a good thing. Now people look angry, busy, tired, preoccupied, frowny. Need to bring back the hellos.
Anonymous
Post 05/30/2019 00:04     Subject: DC is Tempe most gentrified city by % in the USA
Gentrification is not so pleasent in my Ward 4 neighborhood. You don’t even get a hello from the new neighbors.

You know, it’s the “smile” effect and nothing else.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2019 20:57     Subject: Re:DC is Tempe most gentrified city by % in the USA
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Affluent people moving into the city is largely a good thing, it means more tax revenue for the city, it means poor and affluent people are less isolated from each other, in DC and many other places it been accompanied by growth that has been good.

However new people should respect the people who have already lived there, and not have condescending colonial attitudes.

And cities should all enough building of new housing so that all the new residents are not displacing old residents (especially renters, who will not get the benefits of older homeowners selling). Some policies on affordable housing should be implemented so that the city does not resegregate.
how are people being displaced ? Dud buildings get knocked down? Dc used to have a population of 800,000 in 1950. Now it has 700,000


People occupy significantly more real estate per person than in 1950.
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2019 13:54     Subject: DC is Tempe most gentrified city by % in the USA
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:DC city council just voted to make May 20 “DC Natives Day.”


You mean for American Indians?


People who weren't American Indians lived in the area that became DC long before it was DC.

Anonymous
Post 05/29/2019 13:53     Subject: Re:DC is Tempe most gentrified city by % in the USA
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Affluent people moving into the city is largely a good thing, it means more tax revenue for the city, it means poor and affluent people are less isolated from each other, in DC and many other places it been accompanied by growth that has been good.

However new people should respect the people who have already lived there, and not have condescending colonial attitudes.

And cities should all enough building of new housing so that all the new residents are not displacing old residents (especially renters, who will not get the benefits of older homeowners selling). Some policies on affordable housing should be implemented so that the city does not resegregate.
how are people being displaced ? Dud buildings get knocked down? Dc used to have a population of 800,000 in 1950. Now it has 700,000



New person moves in, old person forced out. No net change in population. You do realize that for someone to be "displaced" there has to be someone moving in to displace them, right?
Anonymous
Post 05/29/2019 13:51     Subject: DC is Tempe most gentrified city by % in the USA
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Anonymous wrote:Curious if anti gentrification advocates are homophobes given many of the “gentrifiers” who first live in tend to be gay?


So anti-gentrification advocates aren't upset about the decrease of affordable housing and black businesses disappearing they're just upset about gays.
Gotcha.


so a racist motive is better than a homophobic one?


The outrage olympics


I think in 2019, the gays are winning! Go Team Gay!


Team Gay ain't churning out no children so don't go declaring victory over Team Non-Whites just yet.



Umm...Are you implying that if gay couples could somehow produce biological children, that they would automatically be gay? That's...not how that works.

Anyway, Team Gay doesn't need to have kids directly for victory, their team is spontaneously generated by the other teams.