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No, that article goes on: > "The cost of living, especially housing, has made it more challenging for middle-class professionals — especially people of color —
by cantSpellSober 3y ago
No, that article goes on:
> "The cost of living, especially housing, has made it more challenging for middle-class professionals — especially people of color — to buy into the market, which hurts startups that have to compete with the Googles and Teslas for talent,” said Spearman, who is Black. “The monoculture speaks more to the income disparity that is pricing out musicians, artists and hospitality workers who are so essential to the creative culture that makes Austin a great market for startup founders in the first place"
- _heimdall 3y agoOh thank you for this, I skimmed the related TechCrunch article and must have missed this, and a search for "diversity" only hit on the original mention. I stand corrected!
- chrisco255 3y agoThis is just an anecdote, not a meaningful statement. Housing has gotten expensive everywhere in the past few years. From 2010 to 2020, the latino population grew by 35%, the black population grew by 26% and the asian population grew by 96%. https://www.austinchamber.com/economic-development/austin-profile/population/population-by-race-hispanic-origin https://www.austinchamber.com/economic-development/austin-pr...
- cantSpellSober 3y agoThanks I just meant that the article did address it. The ad for Austin you posted cites census statistics from 4 years ago, which are more meaningful, but not the topic, and they still show the city as majority white.
- chrisco255 3y agoIt cites 2020 statistics, which are 3 years old, the city has not changed so dramatically in the past 3 years, it's just agitative hyperbole. Most important is that census stats are the most accurate stats. Most of the United States is majority white, being a country founded by white people, this should not be a shocking fact nor a point of contention.
- cantSpellSober 3y agoI didn't write the article, their point is that aspects of it (like the housing market) have changed in that specific period, not the period the ad you linked to discusses
- chrisco255 3y agoThe demographics of Austin have not meaningfully changed in the past 3 years. It's not in the data, it's just a made up hit piece. Even if it was slightly more white than it had been 3 years ago, no one say why that would be a bad thing.