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> I just hope people are not in a hurry to displace what makes it cool They probably are, but only because everyone has a different perspective on what things

• throwaway6rusm2 10y ago
  It's great if you are a white person making 60k+ a year (a good bit of money in this city). There was a huge string of neglectful decisions to lower income families who have lived there for decades being forced out. These aren't "bad" people or criminals either. You guessed it: An overwhelming majority are African American. I can already hear someone typing "well that's just life, they should get over it." This would perfectly represent the ignorance around a lot of the city-wide issues. So much of today is around the hype-cycle issues presented from the upper-class/startup/city officials perspective. It isn't all bad, by any means, and I apologize if I sound jaded. To declare the city or an area wholly on the up-and-up or "largely positive" is certainly a sheltered perspective though.
  • doktrin 10y ago
    > It's great if you are a white person I'm not white > To declare the city or an area wholly on the up-and-up or "largely positive" is certainly a sheltered perspective though. Ironically, your perspective strikes me as a bit sheltered. Have you ever lived in or spent any time around a highrise project? Anywhere? They fucking suck, are incredibly difficult to police & govern, and almost invariably become hotbeds of shit. Tearing them down and distributing its residents to saner public housing is most definitely defensible as compared to just letting a bad situation fester uncontrollably.