Gentrification and the ghetto across the street

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Just generally what are yalls thoughts on gentrification? I'm actually a bit torn on the issue. There are some solid Netflix docs on the topic.

Anyways, I deliver doughnuts for a living, and thus drive around town all day (Austin) and I swear to god there are parts of this town where one side of the street is affluent and the other is the ghetto, or more appropriately, the barrio.

It's insane.
 
I'm down for gentrification if it means I can get doughnuts delivered to me
 
I was driving once on the east side by Franklins bbq and it looks like a resort and next thing I know I'm driving by abandoned houses
 
There was a really good HBO documentary called Class Divide if you can find it.
 
How does one get started in the doughnut delivery business?
 
There was a really good HBO documentary called Class Divide if you can find it.

Honestly, I don't really respond to the argument that it pushes people out. I more so respond to the idea that it drains the culture out of cities. Like I want to get my traditional ethnic foods and ethnic business, not chain crap. That's what I go to the burbs for.
 
Im agin it
Gentrification makes everything bland, boring and homogenized, just like the food you people enjoy
I like my neighborhoods rich in tradition with a distinct flavor, and a little spice and excitement, just like the food us people enjoy
 
Honestly, I don't really respond to the argument that it pushes people out. I more so respond to the idea that it drains the culture out of cities. Like I want to get my traditional ethnic foods and ethnic business, not chain crap. That's what I go to the burbs for.

Yeah, it will probably open up wherever people move then get pushed out again and taken over by another chain. It's happened for a long time but i think we're getting closer to the end of the real immigrant melting pot the US had after the late 1800's - 1930's period.
 
Im agin it
Gentrification makes everything bland, boring and homogenized, just like the food you people enjoy
I like my neighborhoods rich in tradition with a distinct flavor, and a little spice and excitement, just like the food us people enjoy

For sure.
 
Certain groups of people have lower standards of living than others -and when they gather in areas together in large numbers they can wreak havoc on said area in a negative capacity.


I'm not going to name names here, but we all know who I'm talking about.
 
Certain groups of people have lower standards of living than others -and when they gather in areas together in large numbers they can wreak havoc on said area in a negative capacity.


I'm not going to name names here, but we all know who I'm talking about.

It happens in Chicago all the time. The interesting thing is.. over the past 10 to 15 years the South Side and West Side neighborhoods, it's mostly black investors that have developed the neighborhoods and caused the lower class to move out. Lake Meadows and Bronzeville are good examples of this. In fact when I worked in the South Loop and couple of my black coworkers had a name for them.. they called them "uppity blacks".
 
Property values go up, so everyone wins. If you've been paying a landlord your whole life you have been wasting your money.

I actually have sympathy for the people, the families specifically who lose their apartments, But there is 0 legitimate argument against rising property values. Its a speculative market, and the one market that everyone at some point hopes to play.

If you cant afford to live in Downtown Los Angeles, move. If you work a shitty job in LA, go get a shitty job somewhere else.
 
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