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Displacement the word means moving something out of a place it currently occupies. You should find a better word.

• ironmagma 6y ago
  Displacement is constantly occurring because people can't find an apartment they can afford, so they leave the City. Why can't they find an apartment they can afford? Because the apartments they would have been able to get have been taken by people richer than they are, some of whom could buy a house. Why can't those people just buy a house and stop taking up the rental units? Because almost all the houses are spoken for by people who not only can pay market price but do so comfortably, including you. So, it is displacement, it's just so after a lot more levels of indirection than most people think about the problem with.
• shuckles 6y ago
  I described a situation where an owner occupier was selling their home. You are describing being priced out. The concepts overlap, but what I described is certainly not displacement.
  • ironmagma 6y ago
    If someone says you are contributing to the mistreatment of animals by buying fur coats, they are not implying that you personally skinned a beaver/fox/what-have-you. Although your purchase of a house does not necessarily directly cause someone else to get ousted, it is still contributing to the problem of displacement, because through a sequence of events it does cause someone to get displaced when their landlord says, "I can rent this place out for 4 times the amount you're paying, so get out."