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When white people move out of a neighborhood, it’s “white flight,” when they move in it’s “gentrification.” What is it called when they stay where they are?
by duado 8y ago
When white people move out of a neighborhood, it’s “white flight,” when they move in it’s “gentrification.” What is it called when they stay where they are?
- sigfubar 8y agoWe call ourselves trapped.
- scarejunba 8y agoI think you'll find that the bad part here is this business of people acting as a bloc of homogeneous race.
- iguy 8y agoBut both "white flight" and "gentrification" are a bunch of individuals making similar choices. There's no pre-arranged conspiracy to all sell up next year & move to X; the only "homogeneous bloc" is in the eye of the speaker. And it is indeed slightly weird how opposite things are perceived negatively.
- mturmon 8y agoThere is sometimes a name for that too: a racial housing covenant. When the California legislature passed a law outlawing them in 1963, the initiative process was used the next year to pass Prop. 14, which specifically allowed racial covenants in transferring housing. It passed with 67% of voters approving it.