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As someone who used to live in a house that got graffitied almost weekly, often with gang symbols, my sympathy for neighborhoods that are shitty because of the
by tathougies 8y ago
As someone who used to live in a house that got graffitied almost weekly, often with gang symbols, my sympathy for neighborhoods that are shitty because of the idiotic choices of their own residents is zero. Bring on the gentrification, the people are way nicer, and they actually make the city a better place to live.
- scarejunba 8y agoYou know, I think you can't really argue against gentrification _and_ against things like white flight. I suspect that most people actually feel like you do. What they don't want are the consequences of gentrification. They want things to get better but to capture all the surplus from the betterness. So they want to continue to live where they did, have the streets be cleaner, have the stores be nicer but not have anything go up in price. The economy isn't generally zero sum but some things definitely are close to zero sum.