What's Parts of LA will be gentrified in the next decade? (Glendale: houses, safe area)

[shapeshift]

I learned back in the 80s and early 90s when long beach experienced a massive influx of southeast Asian refugees, the majority of them being Cambodians.. Within a few years of their arrival, they helped transformed a stretch of the Anaheim corridor.. They built Buddhist temples, opened up numerous shops and restaurants and a community center.. The large preexisting Hispanic community had a huge resentment to this.. The Cambodians were early gentrifiers of this area of long beach which had always been statistically high in crime and poverty.. Cambodians experienced a racial backlash from the latinos due to their newfound status of wealth ... Tensions were high and a racial gang war ensued between cambodians and mexicans.. I have read that latinos are also feeling a huge resentment towards white hipsters and yuppies moving into their areas.. Yet, there is hardly any racial backlash.. The LA
Latino gangs, rather than using threats or intimidation, like they did towards the Cambodians, simply are moving out of their barrios..but still leave gang grafittis while they pack up and leave.. I guess it all comes down to the housing market and Cambodians, unlike whites, were content to just rent a cheap house rather than invest in buying a home..most weren't interested in home ownership back then.. Now there's a bunch of Cambodian families living on top of signal hill..

[Pennychaser11]

Before when housing was cheap and traffic was decent in LA/socal, people just moved out of ghetto towards relatively new and cheap areas in IE/OC. Now bad traffic(will get worse over time) alone is a good enough reason that people will choose to live closer to work in major job centers like LA or OC. You can have a nice house out in Corona or IE but what's the point if you have to spend 4+ hours/day in traffic? Most likely you have higher probabiilty of getting killed by your commute than getting shot in LA area. Therefore gentrification of entire LA region is inevitable. Of course there will be bad pockets here and there no matter when.

[kttam186290]

The cycle of gentrification in most urban areas usually follows this pattern:

1. -- Hood Rat-infested ghetto neighborhoods become full of blight and crime and "food deserts", pawn shops, strip mall churches, wig stores, liquor stores and nail salons.

2. -- Latino/Asian Immigrants move in, bring in small mom-&-pop shops and tasty restaurants, taquerias, lavenderias, ethnic markets, etc.

3. -- The first gays and artists begin to move in and then Starbucks, Trader Joes, Corporate bank branches and PetSmart follow.

4. -- More and more gays and artists follow, bringing wine bars, florists, used book stores and art galleries and a weekly farmer's market.

5. -- the metrosexual Hipsters move in from suburbia wanting an "urban experience", usually bringing with them a brew pub or two, hobby stores and university extensions.

6. -- Noting the rising property values, better schools and demographics, the Rich Bastards start showing up and buying apartments, turning them into condominiums, and then marketing them to Yuppies and Rich Immigrants and Investors.

7. -- Federal government and county housing authorities start getting complaints about "housing discrimination" and begin investigating. They find that the area in question is now "too white", "too prosperous" and that too many wealthy people live there, so they build low-income housing.

8. -- More Hood Rats start to show up to take advantage of the housing quotas, test scores drop in nearby schools, burglaries begin to occur and 'For Sale' signs begin to sprout here and there.

9. -- A full-scale mass exodus of the wealthy, the artists, the gays and the children of immigrants begins. Condominiums are rented out as apartments, boutique shops begin to close and become replaced by smoke shops, liquor stores and payday loan centers. The farmer's market becomes less about produce and more about booths for social service providers and crime prevention.

10. -- Bank branches close for fear of being robbed, houses get rented out to Section 8 voucher holders, crime goes up, bars go up on windows of the last remaining businesses, test scores at local schools continue to plummet and people in pajamas at 1:00 p.m. begin fighting at bus stops. Soon will come the strip mall churches, pawn shops, liquor stores, wig stores and nail salons.

[jm1982]

So basically the government screws everything up by getting involved in housing , rather then let the market work . Likely a lot of truth to this .
I live in an area with no gentrification .
Even a pawn shop went out of business . The big cheesy ghetto pawn shop sign is still up though. The whole center is an eye sore and the landlord seems to bring in the worst possible busiensses . I would love for the whole center to be razed and a Starbucks open or something like that . Current businesses are a dusty liquor store , psychic , and a place advertising $8 haircuts . The former used tire store and pawn shop are vacant ..the used tire store was formerly an illegal marijuana store . There was also an unlicensed recycling facility that attracted many homeless , many that would go on to buy cheap liquor at the liquor store. For some reason it took the city a long time to shut that down even though they knew it was illegal . Typical .

[genjy]

Originally Posted by kttam186290

The cycle of gentrification in most urban areas usually follows this pattern:

1. -- Hood Rat-infested ghetto neighborhoods become full of blight and crime and "food deserts", pawn shops, strip mall churches, wig stores, liquor stores and nail salons.

2. -- Latino/Asian Immigrants move in, bring in small mom-&-pop shops and tasty restaurants, taquerias, lavenderias, ethnic markets, etc.

3. -- The first gays and artists begin to move in and then Starbucks, Trader Joes, Corporate bank branches and PetSmart follow.

4. -- More and more gays and artists follow, bringing wine bars, florists, used book stores and art galleries and a weekly farmer's market.

5. -- the metrosexual Hipsters move in from suburbia wanting an "urban experience", usually bringing with them a brew pub or two, hobby stores and university extensions.

6. -- Noting the rising property values, better schools and demographics, the Rich Bastards start showing up and buying apartments, turning them into condominiums, and then marketing them to Yuppies and Rich Immigrants and Investors.

7. -- Federal government and county housing authorities start getting complaints about "housing discrimination" and begin investigating. They find that the area in question is now "too white", "too prosperous" and that too many wealthy people live there, so they build low-income housing.

8. -- More Hood Rats start to show up to take advantage of the housing quotas, test scores drop in nearby schools, burglaries begin to occur and 'For Sale' signs begin to sprout here and there.

9. -- A full-scale mass exodus of the wealthy, the artists, the gays and the children of immigrants begins. Condominiums are rented out as apartments, boutique shops begin to close and become replaced by smoke shops, liquor stores and payday loan centers. The farmer's market becomes less about produce and more about booths for social service providers and crime prevention.

10. -- Bank branches close for fear of being robbed, houses get rented out to Section 8 voucher holders, crime goes up, bars go up on windows of the last remaining businesses, test scores at local schools continue to plummet and people in pajamas at 1:00 p.m. begin fighting at bus stops. Soon will come the strip mall churches, pawn shops, liquor stores, wig stores and nail salons.

Where has this whole process ever happened? Examples?

[majoun]

Originally Posted by genjy

Where has this whole process ever happened? Examples?

Hasn't happened anywhere in Los Angeles in the last two decades.

Sounds more like the Midwest, especially the Chicago and Detroit areas, than L.A.

[munchitup]

Originally Posted by majoun

Hasn't happened anywhere in Los Angeles in the last two decades.

Sounds more like the Midwest, especially the Chicago and Detroit areas, than L.A.

Yeah I was going to say, that does not sound like anything that has happened in LA.

[nmdesert]

Originally Posted by genjy

Where has this whole process ever happened? Examples?

Not familiar with LA or Highland Park, but it sure sounds like a shorter version of what the poster being questioned said in their 8 points -
York & Fig | Marketplace.org

If you listen to the audio archives, Nicole Deflorian might make your skin crawl.

[Dave Coe]

Los Angeles's Totally Unexpected New Hipster 'Hood Frontiers - Hipsters - Curbed LA

[jm1982]

It always seems like these curbed la articles are not really stating anything new or they are using exaggeration .
How are these areas " totally unexpected "