> Isn't this exactly what you would expect from something pleasant and rare? If you just want to make an area more affordable, you should make it less pleasant

> Isn't this exactly what you would expect from something pleasant and rare? If you just want to make an area more affordable, you should make it less pleasant. I was a teenager in 1992 in a part of Chicago getting gentrified, and I recall socialist activists literally telling kids not to pick up litter for this reason. They had a point...