Demographics and changes in the outer East Bay (Oakland, Berkeley: houses, neighborhoods)

[sav858]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Concord has a reputation for being ghetto but I could see it becoming gentrified. Especially with the Naval Yards Redevelopment which will add 25k people mostly upper middle class.

I'm wondering how will be able to develop that area w/that many people as I don't recall seeing any plans to expand Highway 4 or 242. But that would be typical of Bay Area planning I suppose; build homes first and worry about infrastructure later when it's already overburdened.

I kind of debate buying a home in the North Concord area b/c it's relatively affordable. The trashy element isn't that bad I guess and I wonder if it will "gentrify" at all b/c it's pretty much the only area along the 680 corridor with somewhat affordable single family homes. Problem with Concord though is the schools are terrible overall. If they could gentrify the trashy element out of the area and improve the schools it would be great, it's actually a pretty decent location, next two 3 freeways and two BART stations.

[Dave Coe]

I think the barrier is it's proximity to Pittsburgh and Antioch.

[sav858]

eh, I don't really see any effects from being closer to those two cities has on the area. The hill creates a pretty defined barrier.

[Dave Coe]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

Probably because of it's proximity to the Silicon Valley but there's a lot of over development in that city. Its starting to resemble Orange County. I was shocked how white many of those cities are most people outside the Bay Area assume the East Bay is the most diverse region of California.

Also I think I read somewhere that Dublin in the fastest growing city in California.

[Dave Coe]

Census data: 78 counties shifted to majority-minority since 2000 | Economy | McClatchy DC



Contra Costa was one of 78 counties that became majority minority in the last census. The other Bay Area County was San Mateo, and also Sacramento and Stanislaus.

[Dave Coe]

SF Is on Track to Be the Whitest County in the Region By 2040 - The Numbers - Curbed SF

[Bisaro TMF]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

SF Is on Track to Be the Whitest County in the Region By 2040 - The Numbers - Curbed SF

lol

[Dave Coe]

The trend I've noticed is the white population growing in both the urban core and extreme exurbs but declining in the more established suburbs. A lot of nicer parts of the out east bay such Lamorinda, Walnut Creek, and Danville may end up resembling Cupertino and Fremont in 30 years.

[BroadwayDiva]

Originally Posted by Dave Coe

The trend I've noticed is the white population growing in both the urban core and extreme exurbs but declining in the more established suburbs. A lot of nicer parts of the out east bay such Lamorinda, Walnut Creek, and Danville may end up resembling Cupertino and Fremont in 30 years.

So is that supposed to be a bad thing for these areas to change in demographics?

[Dave Coe]

Originally Posted by BroadwayDiva

So is that supposed to be a bad thing for these areas to change in demographics?

It's all subjective. I know a lot of working class Latinos resent white hipsters gentrifying the Mission District. On the other hand many middle class whites were priced out of the places like Cupertino by wealthy Asian immigrants.