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^ well the gentrifiers are racists too for pricing black people out of the hood, so who cares about them?
But who put Black people in the hood? 80 years ago, most of these Black people were farmers in rural parts of the South. You had massive rural landholding consolidation as better farming technology made most of the rural laborers redundant. So many of them moved to industrial cities like NYC. Only the industrial companies left Northern cities, creating the hood.
But the hood in and of itself has NOTHING to do with Black people. Its a creation of corporate and government forces that can destroy it as easily as they created it. As easily as they pushed poor sharecroppers off their land, they can push ghetto people out of the ghetto. And this has nothing to do with the gentrifiers at all. It has to do with how society values real estate. NYC is now a premium city. You really have to be making a lot to afford it. If not, its bye bye Miss American pie.
At this point I'd say many Black Americans have bailed out of NY anyway.
Then the corporate sector in a NYC sense decided certain parts of town where good for the creative and tech sectors. And the government began investing in inner cities again. What was once viewed as bad, became good. And so the poorest people got displaced.
That's completely wrong - creative types and younger generations moved in to disinvested areas, made them trendy, and THEN the corps followed THEM, not the other way around. Companies follow growth potential
But who put Black people in the hood? 80 years ago, most of these Black people were farmers in rural parts of the South. You had massive rural landholding consolidation as better farming technology made most of the rural laborers redundant. So many of them moved to industrial cities like NYC. Only the industrial companies left Northern cities, creating the hood.
But the hood in and of itself has NOTHING to do with Black people. Its a creation of corporate and government forces that can destroy it as easily as they created it. As easily as they pushed poor sharecroppers off their land, they can push ghetto people out of the ghetto. And this has nothing to do with the gentrifiers at all. It has to do with how society values real estate. NYC is now a premium city. You really have to be making a lot to afford it. If not, its bye bye Miss American pie.
At this point I'd say many Black Americans have bailed out of NY anyway.
whatever. this is the hear and now, so what does it have to do with you is the question. if nothing, save the friggin lecture.
That's completely wrong - creative types and younger generations moved in to disinvested areas, made them trendy, and THEN the corps followed THEM, not the other way around. Companies follow growth potential
Not even. In the 1990s, the federal government gave huge tax incentives to revitalize urban areas. The gentrification was planned by the corporate sector and by the government quite sometime ago. The hipsters were mainly pawns used to advertise areas and make them cool. Once they were cool with enough hipsters, the corporate sector spent its money full forced and displaced the hipsters.
Gentrification has never been a grass roots movement. The other thing is the tech and creative sectors expanded in NYC because they got huge tax incentives to come here. Its why NY has a film and tv industry, and why NY has a tech sector.
Just for filming a movie in NY, you get nearly 1/3 of the budget back in tax credits. If it weren't for tax incentives/corporate welfare there'd be no creative sector and no gentrification in NY. And this has been going on at least since the 1990s.
Not even. In the 1990s, the federal government gave huge tax incentives to revitalize urban areas. The gentrification was planned by the corporate sector and by the government quite sometime ago. The hipsters were mainly pawns used to advertise areas and make them cool.
Then you'll have no problem citing specific incentives in specific areas right?
and as far as culture, you have got to be kidding? like Bushwick had any kind of culture you would want to live around?????
I'm sure a lot of the posters here know this already but Bushwick has only been a minority neighborhood since the mid-'60s or so. The excellent book Ladies and Gentlemen, the Bronx is Burning goes into a lot of detail about the history of Bushwick leading up to the blackout of '77 and its devastation during the looting. Bushwick was a very middle class, German-Catholic neighborhood until the '60s started. The loss of manufacturing jobs (especially those in breweries) started the decline of the neighborhood, which lasted a *long* time. The looting really, really did a number on the neighborhood and it's only relatively recently that Bushwick has started coming back.
I haven't listened to what Spike Lee actually said but I got the impression from CNN that he isn't so much against gentrification, as he wants the gentrifiers to be more respectful to the people who already live there. That they should add to the culture, not replace it. I can't really argue with that--nothing is more boring than a neighborhood that's been totally whitewashed (and I say that as the whitest, WASPiest person on the planet). I want to live in an area that incorporates a lot of different cultures, not just one.
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