| Comment | > You mean the shit area is now nice? And that's bad somehow?
I suspect most gentrification isn't caused by the people in the shit area becoming better off, but rather by those people in poverty being displaced by richer incomers. The poverty isn't solved, but rather displaced, and that means people losing their homes, their communities and being forced to move somewhere else even if they've lived in an area their whole lives. From that perspective, gentrification isn't a good thing, it's a form of economic displacement. |
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