Some people think it's clearly a bad thing because it dislocates poor people from these gentrifying neighborhoods, but there's a lot more to it. There was a re

Some people think it's clearly a bad thing because it dislocates poor people from these gentrifying neighborhoods, but there's a lot more to it. There was a report last week on NPR that talked about how difficult it is for people to escape these closed-in neighborhoods: http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/what-makes-land-opportunity http://www.marketplace.org/topics/wealth-poverty/what-makes-... Essentially they found that the more rich and poor people intermingle in their daily lives, the more likely it is for those poor people to pull themselves out of poverty.