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Gentrification is not the opposite of crime. If anything, it incentivizes it, because there’s a concentration of wealth surrounded by depressed, displaced and d
by otikik 3y ago
Gentrification is not the opposite of crime. If anything, it incentivizes it, because there’s a concentration of wealth surrounded by depressed, displaced and discontent people. Peak Gentrification is when only gated communities with a lot of armed guards don’t have crime, and everyone else is a hellhole. That’s how it is already in many developing countries’ rich neighborhoods.
- vGPU 3y agoNot really. It rapidly causes increased pressure on local LEO to increase presence while at the same time voting for policies that increase taxation and cost of living will drive the poor out of the area.
- otikik 3y agoWe are saying the same thing. The poor don’t dissolve in thin air. They are still there. Only with less quality of life, and with a high concentration of wealth nearby, in what used to be “their” place. Put two and two together.