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View Poll Results: Which city is experiencing the most gentrification?
St. Louis, Missouri 8 4.60%
Baltimore, Maryland 9 5.17%
Boston, Massachusetts 9 5.17%
New York, New York 44 25.29%
Cincinnati, Ohio 8 4.60%
San Francisco, California 11 6.32%
Chicago, Illinois 24 13.79%
Washington, D.C. 39 22.41%
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 12 6.90%
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 9 5.17%
Atlanta, Georgia 24 13.79%
San Diego, California 6 3.45%
Los Angeles, California 18 10.34%
Buffalo, New York 2 1.15%
Other 14 8.05%
Multiple Choice Poll. Voters: 174. You may not vote on this poll

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Old 02-23-2012, 08:13 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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The rest of South Philadelphia (Point Breeze area) and all of Lower North Philadelphia from Center City to Temple University are seeing huge swaths of gentrification. The Riverward's are starting to see a lot of gentrification also along with West Philadelphia surrounding University City.

Jersey City is seeing gentrification as well.
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Old 02-24-2012, 12:38 AM
 
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people should be able to live wherever they want, if you don't like gentrification, get out of America or move to Detroit. Just because you weren't ready for it, doesn't mean it wasn't going to happen. Times are changing so either get with it or get out.
I agree that people should be able to live where they want.

Including the only places they were either allowed to live or could afford to live. It goes both ways.
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Old 02-24-2012, 02:27 AM
 
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San Francisco. the black population had the largest decrease of any city in california, and is only 3% black now. the formerly african-american neighborhoods have been gentrified and the city has kicked the former residents out.
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Old 02-25-2012, 10:13 AM
 
Location: the future
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San Francisco. the black population had the largest decrease of any city in california, and is only 3% black now. the formerly african-american neighborhoods have been gentrified and the city has kicked the former residents out.
3% black? there's more black ppl in my neighborhood in Largo, md than the whole SF.
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Old 02-27-2012, 01:49 AM
 
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3% black? there's more black ppl in my neighborhood in Largo, md than the whole SF.
Sad, isn't it? There used to be around 100,000 blacks in the city now it's less than 40,000.This is a good article that describes what's going on with SF gentrification Ethnic Cleansing in San Francisco - FoundSF
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Old 02-27-2012, 07:46 AM
 
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Every early public project complex is gone in Memphis, replaced with very few units former low income occupants can move back in to. In their place are condos, upper scale apts., office space and free standing houses, with bankers, developers and a few real estate brokers waiting for the profits, and poor nomadic residents scattering in the winds with their vouchers, saturating apt. complexes in certain areas of the city and creating new overcrowded compounds.
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Old 02-27-2012, 09:19 AM
 
Location: The City
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Would think DC is the currently experiencing the most out of US cities; may not be the most but is most rapidly gentrifying currently
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Old 04-25-2012, 09:58 PM
 
Location: Metropolis
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Sad, isn't it? There used to be around 100,000 blacks in the city now it's less than 40,000.This is a good article that describes what's going on with SF gentrification Ethnic Cleansing in San Francisco - FoundSF
But wait a second, that can't be. San Francisco
is the most liberal, inviting, free thinking city in
America. Didn't you get the memo?
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Old 04-25-2012, 10:34 PM
 
Location: Pittsburgh, PA (Morningside)
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Sad, isn't it? There used to be around 100,000 blacks in the city now it's less than 40,000.This is a good article that describes what's going on with SF gentrification Ethnic Cleansing in San Francisco - FoundSF
To be clear though, this is part of a greater trend of blacks leaving the west coast. Portland, Oakland, the LA area - essentially everywhere. Gentrification is playing a role in most places, along with displacement by Latinos in Southern California. However, the pull of the "reverse great migration" back to the South is scooping up a lot of younger black people. IIRC, New York and Pennsylvania are the only two northern states which are maintaining their black populations in absolute numbers.
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Old 04-25-2012, 11:01 PM
 
Location: Philadelphia, PA
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It appears some people in this poll mistook 'gentrified' for 'gentrification'. Most neighborhoods in Washington DC are completely gentrified.
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