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Author	dddiamonddd
Comment	Pushing people out of the places they live in by making it unaffordable is not a good thing. All you do is move the poverty and the problems associated with it around, as well as just turning places into a middle class haven. The people being pushed out by the rising house prices need to go somewhere and council house provision is poor, private renting is expensive if you want to be anywhere semi-decent or accessible, and the new houses getting built are all expensive. People working £20k jobs (of which there are tonnes in Glasgow) can't afford to buy a £200k+ flat, can they? Especially if they have kids and so need more than 1 or 2 bedrooms. I got pushed out of Dennistoun by rising rents as it started to become "the new West End". I moved to another area that was, at the time, generally regarded as a shithole and got warned against it. Now that area is getting better, and there's loads of new houses! Except not a single one is selling for below £225k every time I look. And those are usually wee 2 bed terraced houses. If it wasn't for the fact that my own income has increased, I'd be facing the prospect of getting pushed out of here too. It is good when an area gets better, but it is absolutely not good when said area only gets better because you turfed out poorer people. You just concentrate poverty in some other area. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, so to speak. Instead, should we not aim for a rising tide that lifts all boats sort of scenario?
Reddit Link	https://www.reddit.com/r/glasgow/comments/wi1ppg/decline/ijarvuy/
Created	Sun 7th Aug 2022 12:25pm
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Pushing people out of the places they live in by making it unaffordable is not a good thing. All you do is move the poverty and the problems associated with it around, as well as just turning places into a middle class haven. The people being pushed out by the rising house prices need to go somewhere and council house provision is poor, private renting is expensive if you want to be anywhere semi-decent or accessible, and the new houses getting built are all expensive. People working £20k jobs (of which there are tonnes in Glasgow) can't afford to buy a £200k+ flat, can they? Especially if they have kids and so need more than 1 or 2 bedrooms. I got pushed out of Dennistoun by rising rents as it started to become "the new West End". I moved to another area that was, at the time, generally regarded as a shithole and got warned against it. Now that area is getting better, and there's loads of new houses! Except not a single one is selling for below £225k every time I look. And those are usually wee 2 bed terraced houses. If it wasn't for the fact that my own income has increased, I'd be facing the prospect of getting pushed out of here too.

It is good when an area gets better, but it is absolutely not good when said area only gets better because you turfed out poorer people. You just concentrate poverty in some other area. Robbing Peter to pay Paul, so to speak. Instead, should we not aim for a rising tide that lifts all boats sort of scenario?