Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You can play a role today. Did you protest today? Did you donate to a mutual aid organization?

- When I lived in DC and MD between 2016-2020, I did pitch in to mutual aid many times. The main way that helped to prevent gentrification was by being neighborly and supporting the mutual aid/communal safety net. A homeless couple lived with us for two months. I bought groceries for people who needed them, like the large family who lived in two hotel rooms. Gave money to get out of homelessness to a former co-worker (3x rent deposit on an apartment). Paid bail for a falsely accused man. Paid someone's dental bill for a long-term pain. For two years, 10% of my take-home pay as a reparations payment to a Black mutual aid group.

- I have moved away from DC and back to NOVA, lived in the area since childhood. Here, I'm the person who would be gentrified out because renting on a relatively low salary. I buy almost exclusively from locally-owned businesses and small farms, with the exception of loving Costco - they are union, very good at what they do.

- If we buy a house in a small town as we plan, then I may be the gentrifier/remote worker pricing out a local. There, wanting to do some kind of community service like teaching/ sharing my skills to be useful to the community.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:My child is at Penn, and there have been multiple anti-gentrification protests/stunts this school year.

Lol, by all of those NY-NJ-DC full-pay students, no doubt

Anonymous wrote:Live like President Carter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’m continuing to live in my home in Columbia Heights and not sell it to a developer who would chop it up into overpriced units. I also continue to send my children to public school.

What did YOU do today to prevent gentrification, OP?

OP here. Exclusively patronizing very local businesses, sending my children to public school, not calling the cops over a party.

Anonymous wrote:You have a lot of privilege if you can "do something" about gentrification. Most people move where they can get jobs.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Like it or not, it's a fact that whenever you show up (choose your own historical year up to 2023), wherever you show up (pick any culture i.e. Petworth locally), non-whites suffer.

....Queue the whataboutisms

How much of this "wherever you show up" harm has roots in money rather than in skin color?

Would this effect happen if the white people who moved in were of the same socio-economic level as the original residents, so there was no us vs. them, haves/have nots? What if said white people made an effort to live in community with the original residents instead of pricing out/exploiting/excluding them?

My hometown (poor white city) has “gentrification.” There are $1400+/month 1BR luxury apts going up in what used to be factories. This is a city where the median HHI is about $50,000. Plenty of complaints about gentrification there.

Go on the Montana, Idaho or Utah subreddits. It’s constant whining about (white) Californians moving in and displacing poor white Utahns.

Anonymous wrote:My child is at Penn, and there have been multiple anti-gentrification protests/stunts this school year.

Anonymous wrote:Live like President Carter
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: This thread doesn't even matter since your privilege moves where you move. If it's a black neighborhood, the real estate values are low...until white people decide they like it. The one-off profit a decades long Black owner are nothing when compared to the benefits your parents (and you) had in there (likely) non diverse enclave.
Many gentrifier's say they want diversity, while acknowledging that their very presence increases property values beyond the reach of many, if not most people of color. Sadly,you are the death knell of urban diversity. Your social and political leanings don't really matter, as individually it's not your fault; it's just how ya'll have been rolling for hundreds of years.
Like it or not, it's a fact that whenever you show up (choose your own historical year up to 2023), wherever you show up (pick any culture i.e. Petworth locally), non-whites suffer.

....Queue the whataboutisms

Queue the tiny violins.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: Like it or not, it's a fact that whenever you show up (choose your own historical year up to 2023), wherever you show up (pick any culture i.e. Petworth locally), non-whites suffer.

....Queue the whataboutisms

How much of this "wherever you show up" harm has roots in money rather than in skin color?

Would this effect happen if the white people who moved in were of the same socio-economic level as the original residents, so there was no us vs. them, haves/have nots? What if said white people made an effort to live in community with the original residents instead of pricing out/exploiting/excluding them?