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Every city is experiencing gentrification to some extent as more people are fed up with being totaly car dependent and want a smaller living space.
However San Francisco easily I would say experienced the most gentrification out of all US cities although Boston and DC are quickly following in it's footsteps.
New York still have some areas that are untouched by gentrification mostly in the Bronx and some parts of Queens.
Then with cities such as Chicago and Philadelphia you still have wide swaths of the city that are still rundown and in need of improvement (such as North Philly or the west and south Sides of Chicago)
NYC is in a league of its own when it comes to gentrification. It has changed so much that affluent families are returning to the public schools. The vast majority of neighborhoods in every borough now have at least a few rich kid "pioneers." Don't be led astray by the filth and graffiti. That too has been gentrified and declared hip, and people actually make money there off of legal graffiti. Also pay no mind to the "NY is so rough" attitude of various poseurs and/or people who haven't lived there in decades.
It's so good it's bad. It's a faux-gritty urban Disneyland.
I know Denver definitely isn't experiencing the most gentrification, but it definitely has great things going on!
The Stapleton neighborhood replacing the old airport is coming along wonderfully and is really increasing Denver proper's population in addition to what's been done downtown.
Five Points is usually considered Denver's worst neighborhood, and it currently looks pretty nice, especially compared to what it used to be.
SF, DC, NYC are the champs. Pockets of it in all the NE and Great Lakes cities, some obviously far more than others.
Southward, Charleston and Richmond, likewise.
As an aside, the documentary Flag Wars, which details this very topic, specific to Columbus OH is very much worth seeing. It's well-made, wrenching at times, depicting a knock-down battle between mostly poor, African-American residents of an inner-east neighborhood in Columbus, who are displaced by wealthier white gentrifiers. Notably, the few humanized (and somewhat heartbreaking, each in their own way) characters include an African-American artist and self-proclaimed shaman whose arts ed program for poor kids is very nearly run out of the neighborhood, a bi-racial woman whose fight to save her own disintegrating house (and, by extension, the neighborhood for its' older residents) is derailed by her own precipitous slide into addictions and very severe health issues, and a blue-collar gay man whose attempt at buying his way into a rather elitist gay community that may or may not want him around has caused him to become dangerously financially overextended. The older residents are often very casually homophobic, and the mostly gay folks moving in are just as often rather casually racist, and both radiate highly individualized senses of entitlement. All of this adds up to a real stealth bomb of a film.
In DC black ppl started to move to Pg county, md naturally as the whites got older and sold their homes and folks got up on $$$...my folks tell me pg county wasnt always maj black and im like really.....i say around 1970's....this when DC was 70% black...as they moved out it left many of the poorer or poverty stricken behind...not that every black person in dc was poor but it became disproportional btw the haves and have nots....nowadays pg county assumes to be the oasis for black ppl leaving dc as 55% black and pgc 64%...since 2000 9.3 % of the black population has been leaving/ displaced and 19.3% increase in white ppl....so now the situation in DC is that you either live in the hood around the hood or you live somewhere decent but expensive (hope you own)....with very few middle class like Baltimore....Im glad DC is making leaps and bounds finally but im not the one accepting a voucher for section 8 bc they priced me out my rent or knocked over my whole neighborhood.....which is why DC's racial map looks like 2 majority groups that meet in the middle
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.
Also, how do you all know what city to vote for? Have you all been to each of these places? Have you explored and seen first hand what is actually going on?
Indianapolis even though its not on the list.
For Super Bowl 46 the national media did an article on the Super Bowl Legacy Project on the near east side.
Indianapolis also is revitalizing the near west side and were also turning a former GM stamping plant into a big project. Still being determined what they are doing with it. 16 Tech at the Bush stadium. All of this is thanks to Mayor Greg Ballards RebuildIndy projects the city is becoming more beautiful without breaking the budget.
we have 10,000 vacant structures in our city. Through Mayor Ballards RebuildIndy over 2,000 of those will be torn down by the end of this year. taking down 20% of your abandoned building stock in less than 2 years=impressive.
All of this was funded by selling the Utilities to a nonprofit group of people called Citizens energy group.
I would put Seattle on that list South Lake Union has had several billion dollars of new construction and 29.000 new employees since 2006. It was an old warehouse distric a few years ago and now its a thriving retail , resdential , and work space downtown . Amazon also just announced three new 1,000,000 square ft highrises for the neighborhood. Several new highrises are under construction all over downtown Seattle . At last count there is like 7,000 new housing units under construction in downtown area. Seattle is changing at a fast pace.
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really.....i say around 1970's....this when DC was 70% black...as they moved out it left many of the poorer or poverty stricken behind...not that every black person in dc was poor but it became disproportional btw the haves and have nots....nowadays pg county assumes to be the oasis for black ppl leaving dc as 55% black and pgc 64%...since 2000 9.3 % of the black population has been leaving/ displaced and 19.3% increase in white ppl....so now the situation in DC is that you either live in the hood around the hood or you live somewhere decent but expensive (hope you own)....with very few middle class like Baltimore....Im glad DC is making leaps and bounds finally but im not the one accepting a voucher for section 8 bc they priced me out my rent or knocked over my whole neighborhood.....which is why DC's racial map looks like 2 majority groups that meet in the middle
