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Interestingly, this isn't restricted to white people. I recently listened to an episode of a podcast (Planet Money, iirc), about housing prices and NIMBYism, an
by thousandautumns 8y ago
Interestingly, this isn't restricted to white people. I recently listened to an episode of a podcast (Planet Money, iirc), about housing prices and NIMBYism, and some pro-housing activists attended some council meetings in a largely Latino neighborhood in the Bay Area, and were met with lots of hostility as new developments were seen as leading to gentrification and destroying the Hispanic culture of the neighborhood.
- jjeaff 8y agoIt's not really the same thing when you are worried about gentrification. While culture is a part of it, the biggest issue is that many do not own in poorer neighborhoods. They rent. And they know that gentrification will slowly push them all from their homes as rents creep upward. So, it's not that white people will ruin the Hispanic culture, it's that having no Hispanic residents will ruin the Hispanic culture.
- village-idiot 8y agoEven when they do own, property taxes can often force them to sell at a discount to avoid disastrously high tax bills. This was part of the selling point of Prop 13 iirc, although certainly not the real purpose.