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Is that what Brooklyn is? I didn't realize that. I just took "New Brooklyn" to mean a formerly hard luck area that has turned itself around.
If you have a chance, go to Brooklyn sometime. I don't know, obviously many people think it's amazing, but I for one find it quite insufferable (at least in the northern half).
Really doubt that LA will reach such levels of gentrification. It's not walkable at all (which seems to be a prerequisite for current gentrifying cities), depressed job market, sprawling neighborhoods of dumpy little single family homes, some of the worst schools in the country. Besides being near the beach (where people actually want to live) there's not the kind of draw to LA that NYC/SF boasts.
My God, each post is worse than the last. Housing prices in LA makes Seattle look like a bargain, and as munchitup pointed out, most of LA's well-documented gentrifying neighborhoods are nowhere near the ocean.
Here you go..."little dumpy houses" with precious views of the Pacific!
Blacks leaving LA isn't a sign of gentrification. It's a sign of a horrible economy.
Blacks leaving is a precursor to gentrification. Whites in LA for the most part will not move into black neighborhoods so it's only Hispanic areas that gentrify. As blacks are replaced by Hispanics it makes those areas open for white gentrification. And as we all know, whites are the only ones that can "gentrify" a neighborhood. Middle class or even wealthy blacks and Hispanics moving in (absent lots of whites) is not seen as gentrification. Asians are somewhat gentrifiers as many hipster white guys are married/living with Asian women.
Sorry to make this so racial, but "gentrification" is completely racial despite people wanting to pretend otherwise. It's code for "whites moving in".
DC and it's not close. No city has seen a change over as fast as DC. Planners and economists around the country are studying DC's rise. It's unprecedented for America to see change happen like this. It began in 2004 and in 10 years, you can't recognize the city. The rise in housing prices by 800% - 1000% in 10 years is just staggering to think about. It's unprecedented for this country.
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Sorry to make this so racial, but "gentrification" is completely racial despite people wanting to pretend otherwise. It's code for "whites moving in".
I don't think so. As Boston has gentrified over the past 10-25 years, it has also (I believe) become more diverse in parts. Gentrification is more a socio-economic thing then a racial thing. On the other hand, it could be said that the majority of rich people moving into the city are white, and minorities tend to be on the other side of things. Not only is that not always true, it's also a problem that is separate from gentrification.
Here's a neat article about gentrification in Southie which was [and still is really] one of Boston's whitest neighborhoods, and here's another that talks about gentrification in Jamaica Plain, which was [and still is really] one of Boston's more Hispanic neighborhoods.
Both articles are dated, but I still found them interesting to read nonetheless. They show people of multiple races/ethnicities reacting to gentrification.
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Oh, and as for the thread, I found this while getting the articles above that says that Boston has gentrified more than any other city in the country. Not 100% sure that I believe it; lot's of areas have/are being gentrified, but there are still a good amount of not-too-gentrified parts of the city as well, I'd say...
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Seriously? Washington D.C. There are plenty of stories on it and how its affecting the city's residents.
Sorry New York, but you didn't go from murder capital of the world in the 1990's to one of the safest large cities in the country in 20 years mostly because of the efforts of gentrification.
DC is not one of the safest large cities in America. Crime here is still very high here. I don't know who told you that but it's not true. In fact gentrification is making certain parts of the city worse because different neighborhoods are now being forced to integrate which is causing new beefs over drug territory.
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