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The protest at Mariachi Plaza didn’t seem, at first, like a declaration of war.
In fact, the Feb. 7 event looked like the same sort of grassroots, anti-gentrification gathering that might have taken place in any big American city at any point over the past 10 years as higher-income transplants have increasingly colonized lower-income urban communities, remaking once marginalized neighborhoods in their own cold-brew-and-kombucha image.
I don't agree with violent tactics, but I sympathize completely with their feelings. What's twisted about not wanting to be priced out of their neighborhood? This has been going on for ages, and it's not just millennials, particularly those of color, who are hurt by it. Often the first victims of such price increases are elderly people who have inhabited the newly "hot" neighborhood for decades. To make matters worse, increasingly, there is no place for them to go in these cities, because there isn't any affordable housing left - it's all been taken over. Pretty soon, most of our cities will be nothing but luxury condos and decaying high-rise projects, with no middle class or working class inhabitants at all.
Like I said, I don't like the tactics described, but if I were in their shoes, I might just feel differently about that. If my rent had gone up $600 in a single year, I am pretty sure I would.
Anyone can be priced out of their “home” by rising rents and/or property taxes. The lesson: nobody is entitled to the place where they live. Everyone is at the mercy of market forces and/or the tax man.
This is America. You are not a person, you are a resource to be exploited. Now stop complaining and get back to work.
I generally don't like the way gentrified neighborhoods look, even though I am technically the target demographic for them. Take Phoenix for example... There are a ton of old, eclectic, "lived in" neighborhoods near the city center. Single-family, 1940s-1960s style homes with large yards and unique style. I really love the look and feel of these areas compared to the gentrified areas where luxury apartments and condos are going up... these new places all have that trendy, generic, sterile look to them. They're just bleh...
Fortunately, flipping the SFH's with updated style appears to be on the rise. If I were in the market there, I would absolutely go for one of those as opposed to the apartments/condos.
I generally don't like the way gentrified neighborhoods look, even though I am technically the target demographic for them. Take Phoenix for example... There are a ton of old, eclectic, "lived in" neighborhoods near the city center. Single-family, 1940s-1960s style homes with large yards and unique style. I really love the look and feel of these areas compared to the gentrified areas where luxury apartments and condos are going up... these new places all have that trendy, generic, sterile look to them. They're just bleh...
Fortunately, flipping the SFH's with updated style appears to be on the rise. If I were in the market there, I would absolutely go for one of those as opposed to the apartments/condos.
This is how it usually goes. An interesting neighborhood is discovered, found to be unique and charming, and before you know it, the new development has displaced all of that and turned it into another soulless little Disney. Then, the people who killed the goose move on, in search of other golden eggs.
Anyone can be priced out of their “home” by rising rents and/or property taxes. The lesson: nobody is entitled to the place where they live. Everyone is at the mercy of market forces and/or the tax man.
This is America. You are not a person, you are a resource to be exploited. Now stop complaining and get back to work.
Unless you want to be a prisoner in your own country like the elite in brazil, mexico, ect, then you are better off finding a solution. The majority of people who can afford housing in these new expensive areas are well off, but they aren't rich. They can't afford bullet proof cars or armed bodyguards 24 hours a day. People will turn to crime like in Mexico, Brazil, Latin America, Africa, ect. Considering the recent massacres I wouldn't be surprise if someone loses their senses and starts targeting the well off. The masses will eventually turn on the elite. It has happen in the past and will happen in the future.
Recently, Apple employees in company transported buses have been fired on by an unknown person or group of people.
These hipsters who come to these newly gentrified areas are mostly white lefties, who are supposed to care about the poor and oppressed yet they are driving the oppression. So they can have their art galleries and hipster delis they are willing to displace poor minorities and the elderly. Even if some can manage to stay the hipsters tear down their neighborhoods making it an alien place to the natives.
The gentrifiers know exactly what they are doing, they may claim to want diversity but they do what they can to make it uncomfortable to impossible for the original neighborhood people to stay.
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