| Comment | That's a good point. Certainly, when I was living in the West End we had HA neighbours who were benefiting from the area going more up-market in some ways, but losing out still in others. The local cafes and pubs were going upmarket too, and upmarket means higher prices, which they couldn't necessarily afford.
Funnily enough, we ended up displaced out to the country because we couldn't afford to buy the kind of place we wanted in the kind of areas we wanted to live in. And we aren't exactly on the dole.
I think overall gentrification is a mixed bag. I think it's good that frankly shit areas become nicer, but I think there are social costs to it as well. |
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