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Old 04-20-2016, 10:57 AM
 
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This has gone TOO far. Boyle Heights residents have no right to play god on who can enter the neighborhood and not. I guess they don't want tourist dollars flowing into their businesses.

Articles like this make an area with so much potential look like land of the lawless anarchy. If developers want to build there and yuppies want to move in then let them! The neighborhood was once Jewish, Italian, and German so change is bound to happen eventually weigher they like it or not. Also near by CSULA is alot more diverse.

Curbed LA source: Boyle Heights is Battling Fiercely Against Gentrification - Curbed LA

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Old 04-20-2016, 11:00 AM
 
Location: New Orleans
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:18 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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I've said for a while that Boyle Heights was going to be the next area for gentrification.
Lot's of ignorance.

"Activist Xochitl Palomera was more blunt: "Gentrification is a violent threat," she says.
"When we feel it we may react in an angry way, through fear.""

What do they fear?
Personally I'd be more afraid of gangbangers versus some moustached guy drinking a cold brew coffee.

Gentrification is a violent thread? Really? That's absurd.

If Ms. Palomera wants to live somewhere without gentrification and a non capitalist economy maybe North Korea might be a good option for her?


Here is another article regarding Boyle Heights anti gentrification..
Boyle Heights residents force a fresh start on Mariachi Plaza project - LA Times

""We've already lost Echo Park, Silver Lake, downtown and now we're being squeezed out by prices," said Adriana Alvarez, a psychiatric social worker who grew up in the neighborhood. "We want our paleteros [ice cream vendors] and our taco stands. We don't need glitter and glamour. That's what this looks like — arrogance and colonization.""

"The people who were most vocal were those who believe that outsiders who don't understand the joy of rancheras streaming from cars or the aroma of menudo on a Sunday morning will destroy their neighborhood's way of life."

If they are worried...I have some good suggestions of places they can move. It sounds like they want to live in Mexico?

Also glitter and glamour in Echo Park, Silver Lake, DTLA? ....All areas are pretty rough around the edges and gritty.

I find it scary to think that the one 'activist' is a psychiatric social worker...sounds more like she needs a psychiatrist..

Yes...the white people are coming...and they are coming to take your menudo and ban ranchera music..what a joke!
Are these people serious?

I think a safe place for these people to move might be Pacoima, probably not likely to get gentrified anytime soon versus Boyle Heights..

They live in a high crime area that has a pretty active number of gang homeboys..and this is their main concern?
Looks like their have their priorities mixed up..

I wish the Mayor and City Council would stop trying to appease these ignorant folks.
If someone can find me the stats of all the people that have died due to gentrification , I'd love to see them.
On the other hand there are tons of stats on the violence that gang members create in these areas.
Gentrification has been proven to lower violent crime (including murder) in cities across America.
I'd argue that gentrification saves lives.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:27 AM
 
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Lol. I can just imagine if a bunch of people with KKK garb went around scaring off Mexicans coming into their neighborhoods in Brentwood. The outcry would be heard nationwide.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:28 AM
 
Location: La La Land
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:33 AM
 
Location: La La Land
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Lol. I can just imagine if a bunch of people with KKK garb went around scaring off Mexicans coming into their neighborhoods in Brentwood. The outcry would be heard nationwide.
Except your situation is political and racial.

This situation is economic. A more reasonable example would be comparing the reaction of Holmby Hills residents to the introduction of Section 8 housing in their neighborhood.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:37 AM
 
Location: Los Angeles (Native)
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I still don't get why they can't have menudo and a gourmet coffee place or whatever.
Why can't people play Ranchera music and Indie Pop or whatever.

Also newsflash... White people love taco stands too...and big shocker..some even eat Menudo...

Sounds like the Boyle Heights 'activists' are anti diversity. Right now Boyle Heights with 94% hispanic population is not demographically diverse.

If the owners of Canter's Deli wanted to open another location in Boyle Heights (where their original location was before Fairfax) I wonder if these activists would be opposed to them coming back to the neighborhood..I'm guessing yes..

The argument that they "lost Echo Park" is absurd. Echo Park still has a hispanic majority and a ton of businesses that serve hispanics and others.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:43 AM
 
Location: TORRANCE
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I still don't get why they can't have menudo and a gourmet coffee place or whatever.
Why can't people play Ranchera music and Indie Pop or whatever.

Also newsflash... White people love taco stands too...and big shocker..some even eat Menudo...

Sounds like the Boyle Heights 'activists' are anti diversity. Right now Boyle Heights with 94% hispanic population is not demographically diverse.

If the owners of Canter's Deli wanted to open another location in Boyle Heights (where their original location was before Fairfax) I wonder if these activists would be opposed to them coming back to the neighborhood..I'm guessing yes..

The argument that they "lost Echo Park" is absurd. Echo Park still has a hispanic majority and a ton of businesses that serve hispanics and others.
They fear that opening up the neighborhood will lead to an influx of new buyers/flippers which will lead to the current population being priced out. It's going to happen eventually.
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Old 04-20-2016, 11:44 AM
 
Location: Whittier
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Gentrification is a very touchy subject in part because it ultimately isn't black and white.

There are shady tactics used by developers to kick out tenants, yet those tenants may be undesirable.

People live in neighborhoods all of their life then get displaced to an unfamiliar area. New people move in by choice, others have to leave because they have no choice.

From the shady deal that Latinos got from Chavez Ravine, gentrification symbolizes a sort of capitalistic eminent domain.

Does that mean that a prosperous safer neighborhood is bad? Obviously no, but people should be mindful of all sides, not just their own.
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Old 04-20-2016, 12:00 PM
 
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I've said for a while that Boyle Heights was going to be the next area for gentrification.
Lot's of ignorance.

"Activist Xochitl Palomera was more blunt: "Gentrification is a violent threat," she says.
"When we feel it we may react in an angry way, through fear.""

What do they fear?
Personally I'd be more afraid of gangbangers versus some moustached guy drinking a cold brew coffee.

Gentrification is a violent thread? Really? That's absurd.

If Ms. Palomera wants to live somewhere without gentrification and a non capitalist economy maybe North Korea might be a good option for her?


Here is another article regarding Boyle Heights anti gentrification..
Boyle Heights residents force a fresh start on Mariachi Plaza project - LA Times

""We've already lost Echo Park, Silver Lake, downtown and now we're being squeezed out by prices," said Adriana Alvarez, a psychiatric social worker who grew up in the neighborhood. "We want our paleteros [ice cream vendors] and our taco stands. We don't need glitter and glamour. That's what this looks like — arrogance and colonization.""

"The people who were most vocal were those who believe that outsiders who don't understand the joy of rancheras streaming from cars or the aroma of menudo on a Sunday morning will destroy their neighborhood's way of life."

If they are worried...I have some good suggestions of places they can move. It sounds like they want to live in Mexico?

Also glitter and glamour in Echo Park, Silver Lake, DTLA? ....All areas are pretty rough around the edges and gritty.

I find it scary to think that the one 'activist' is a psychiatric social worker...sounds more like she needs a psychiatrist..

Yes...the white people are coming...and they are coming to take your menudo and ban ranchera music..what a joke!
Are these people serious?

I think a safe place for these people to move might be Pacoima, probably not likely to get gentrified anytime soon versus Boyle Heights..

They live in a high crime area that has a pretty active number of gang homeboys..and this is their main concern?
Looks like their have their priorities mixed up..

I wish the Mayor and City Council would stop trying to appease these ignorant folks.
If someone can find me the stats of all the people that have died due to gentrification , I'd love to see them.
On the other hand there are tons of stats on the violence that gang members create in these areas.
Gentrification has been proven to lower violent crime (including murder) in cities across America.
I'd argue that gentrification saves lives.
Those types of "activists" just sound arrogant to me. It's hard to explain the point I'm trying to get across, but people like them make themselves out to be victims over silly things. Like you said, the Mexican culture isn't going to leave the neighborhood just because it comes a little more gentrified. But to be fair, I think most of the residents are more reasonable than the activists from that article

Isn't East LA mostly or largely occupied by homeowners anyway?
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