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Is there an area where this has actually happened? It's a weird version of the standard gentrification fable. It is incorrect in most situations where it could
by menloparkbum 18y ago
Is there an area where this has actually happened? It's a weird version of the standard gentrification fable. It is incorrect in most situations where it could be descriptive because the gentrification "success stories" did not happen in african-american neighborhoods. For example, Williamsburg, Brooklyn was an industrial area surrounded by Polish, Puerto Rican and Hasidic communities.
Also, the story doesn't work if you take into account the actual locations the article mentions. No adventurous young gays and art students will ever be moving to Antioch or the suburbs of Salinas and Mobile, Alabama.