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Old 03-05-2018, 01:59 PM
 
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I sure wish Houston would be next for anti-gentrification protest... Im not against gentrification if I was I believe that would mean I am for segregation........ Which I am not however, I do not want to be put out out of my new home because they are building $269,000 townhomes in my backyard and the rising property are simply too much for my landlord to pay (literally what im going through as of now)...... well I guess I am against gentrification with that said, Independence Heights is a colored mans neighborhood simple as that STAY OUT! Sorry not racist but I would like to stay in my home and not be forced out! I would like to continue to live in the city of Houston and not be pushed out of beltway 8 to the suburbs. Who is with me ????
We'll say that I might have been one of the people you're telling to stay out. But really I don't care to pay what developers in Houston want for fugly townhomes that don't even look like they should be where they are, to live in a city where I still have to drive everywhere, that has so-called "500-year-floods" on a regular basis, and has no particular commitment to anything besides building more and exacerbating that effect.

Can I come by and visit, at least?
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Old 03-05-2018, 02:02 PM
 
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This is always a difficult debate I see both sides of every day. I grew up in Third Ward and many of my old friends and neighbors are being pushed further out. It's sad to see, but the reality of economics is what it is. Like it or not, land is used as a means of wealth-building in this society - we don't have land tenure as some other societies do. My mother already has a contingency plan in place for when they inevitably come to buy out her Med Center-area property at some point in the future.
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Old 03-05-2018, 02:06 PM
 
Location: Independence Height\Studewood
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We'll say that I might have been one of the people you're telling to stay out. But really I don't care to pay what developers in Houston want for fugly townhomes that don't even look like they should be where they are, to live in a city where I still have to drive everywhere, that has so-called "500-year-floods" on a regular basis, and has no particular commitment to anything besides building more and exacerbating that effect.

Can I come by and visit, at least?
Hehe Trust me I dont think you want to visit you might want to visit Garden Oaks instead..... Its ok I would like to see the looks on the peoples faces after they buy their $269,000 town home only to hear gunshots ringing up Tulane street
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Old 03-05-2018, 02:10 PM
 
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Hehe Trust me I dont think you want to visit you might want to visit Garden Oaks instead..... Its ok I would like to see the looks on the peoples faces after they buy their $269,000 town home only to hear gunshots ringing up Tulane street
Ha.

I lived just outside the city limits southwest of Detroit up for about a year, ending a few months ago. These kids think they've been to the hood.

And even there, this same debate is a thing.
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Old 03-05-2018, 02:12 PM
 
Location: Independence Height\Studewood
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We'll say that I might have been one of the people you're telling to stay out. But really I don't care to pay what developers in Houston want for fugly townhomes that don't even look like they should be where they are, to live in a city where I still have to drive everywhere, that has so-called "500-year-floods" on a regular basis, and has no particular commitment to anything besides building more and exacerbating that effect.

Can I come by and visit, at least?
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Ha.

I lived just outside the city limits southwest of Detroit up for about a year, ending a few months ago. These kids think they've been to the hood.

And even there, this same debate is a thing.
lol reminds me of the Aleif or FM 1960 kids here
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Old 03-05-2018, 02:39 PM
 
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lol reminds me of the Aleif or FM 1960 kids here
I saw stuff that makes FM 1960 and Kuykendahl look like Cinco Ranch.
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Old 03-05-2018, 03:06 PM
 
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Hard to call it screwing a poor person when the poor person buys a house & lot for $25,000 and sells it for $250,000

If they didn't want to leave, sure its unfortunate for them, but getting screwed by making more in the sale of their property than they will in 10 years? No - that isn't getting screwed.
I'm sure most of them don't want to leave. Even if they did make that much profit, which I doubt many of them would, now they have to move outside the city.

It's the renters who are getting screwed big time, and then the small business owners.

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Old 03-05-2018, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Beautiful Northwest Houston
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I sure wish Houston would be next for anti-gentrification protest... Im not against gentrification if I was I believe that would mean I am for segregation........ Which I am not however, I do not want to be put out out of my new home because they are building $269,000 townhomes in my backyard and the rising property are simply too much for my landlord to pay (literally what im going through as of now)...... well I guess I am against gentrification with that said, Independence Heights is a colored mans neighborhood simple as that STAY OUT! Sorry not racist but I would like to stay in my home and not be forced out! I would like to continue to live in the city of Houston and not be pushed out of beltway 8 to the suburbs. Who is with me ????

Are we really supposed to stop gentrification and create ghetto reservations in these "select" neighborhoods ? Who selects which hoods are open for gentrification and which are reserved for rent control and generational squalor ?
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Old 03-06-2018, 08:22 AM
 
Location: Willowbrook, Houston
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What people forget about gentrification is this: Where do you think the former poor folks are going to go: They'll show up in River Oaks or the suburbs and jack up the crime in those areas. Unlike other Houston hoods, Acres Homes has managed to escape gentrification, but I don't know for how much longer. It's proximity to 290, 249, 45 & 610 is on developer's radar. Everyone wants gentrification to happen until the ghetto residents come to Sugar Land, River Oaks, Houston Heights, Galleria Area, etc.
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Old 03-06-2018, 08:41 AM
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I disagree, AcresHomes. People leaving gentrifying neighborhoods due to rising home costs are not going to land in River Oaks.
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