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Honestly, I think Atlanta is the outlier among the options. It just has such a different history and development pattern as a quintessential Sun Belt city to be exposed to "gentrification." Although I know Atlanta does have a slight post-industrial dynamic, it clearly was not as severe or robust for the city as others mentioned here. To this end, Atlanta is just "developing" rather than "gentrifying."
Over the past 10-15 years, it's clear that Brooklyn, DC, Boston and San Francisco have become the postern children of gentrification that are magnets for high-income, urban-oriented residents. However, these places have already become pretty cost-prohibitive in terms of housing and are now reach for middle and even upper-middle income households. I only see this trend worsening over the next decade.
Moving forward, I can definitely see gentrification really excelerating in LA, Chicago and Philly -- and particularly the later two, since they have relatively robust transportation systems, more diverse economies, relatively cheap housing and quick access to high-quality urban amenities.
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Honestly, I think Atlanta is the outlier among the options. It just has such a different history and development pattern as a quintessential Sun Belt city to be exposed to "gentrification." Although I know Atlanta does have a slight post-industrial dynamic, it clearly was not as severe or robust for the city as others mentioned here. To this end, Atlanta is just "developing" rather than "gentrifying."
Over the past 10-15 years, it's clear that Brooklyn, DC, Boston and San Francisco have become the postern children of gentrification that are magnets for high-income, urban-oriented residents. However, these places have already become pretty cost-prohibitive in terms of housing and are now reach for middle and even upper-middle income households. I only see this trend worsening over the next decade.
Moving forward, I can definitely see gentrification really excelerating in LA, Chicago and Philly -- and particularly the later two, since they have relatively robust transportation systems, more diverse economies, relatively cheap housing and quick access to high-quality urban amenities.
Atlanta does have some gentrification in it's inner neighborhoods, but for the most part your right about it being much newer and is more so developing than gentrifying.
Many of the heavily gentrified areas are in much more established urban neighborhoods. I should have added Detroit to the poll, as it will be interesting to see what happens there and maybe Baltimore as well.
Honestly, I think Atlanta is the outlier among the options. It just has such a different history and development pattern as a quintessential Sun Belt city to be exposed to "gentrification." Although I know Atlanta does have a slight post-industrial dynamic, it clearly was not as severe or robust for the city as others mentioned here. To this end, Atlanta is just "developing" rather than "gentrifying."
Over the past 10-15 years, it's clear that Brooklyn, DC, Boston and San Francisco have become the postern children of gentrification that are magnets for high-income, urban-oriented residents. However, these places have already become pretty cost-prohibitive in terms of housing and are now reach for middle and even upper-middle income households. I only see this trend worsening over the next decade.
Moving forward, I can definitely see gentrification really excelerating in LA, Chicago and Philly -- and particularly the later two, since they have relatively robust transportation systems, more diverse economies, relatively cheap housing and quick access to high-quality urban amenities.
Atlanta is gentrifying and developing at the same time. It's quickly losing it's black population and quickly gaining it's white population.
Neighborhoods like Westside, Inman Park, East Atlanta, Old 4th Ward are neighborhoods that are developing/gentrifying. Just because they are single family homes doesn't mean gentrification isn't possible.
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.
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NYC and SF most definitely.
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.
Couldn't we argue as a whole LA's metro has seen a decent level of gentrification with the dwindling black population that has clearly been leaving, not just the city but the metro area?
The black population is being replaced by low income Latino families though. That's not exactly gentrification. If they were high income, different story.
New York and Chicago have and will continue to experience a great deal of gentrification. I predict Philadelphia will be next and in another 10 years Detroit is also going to get hipsterized. Get ready for it, Detroit!
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