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In reality, gentrification is short term bad, long term good. In peoples' minds, gentrification is bad. Most of the arguments against it are poorly supported
by eqdw 11y ago
In reality, gentrification is short term bad, long term good.
In peoples' minds, gentrification is bad.
Most of the arguments against it are poorly supported and/or disingenuous. But the legitimate ones all refer to the instability created by gentrification.
Gentrification has large short term negative effects. Quickly changing neighbourhoods that rapidly rise in value force people who can't afford them to leave. If you're a lower income family barely getting by as it is, you might resent being suddenly displaced from the place you've lived for 30 years. Hell, if you're a lower income family, you might not be able to afford the cost of moving.
The big problem with gentrification is that we lack viable social supports to help people in transition during periods of gentrification. Too many people want to stick their head in the sand and ignore it, or foolishly try to legislate (or activist) it away.
- dragonwriter 11y ago> The big problem with gentrification is that we lack viable social supports to help people in transition during periods of gentrification. Gentrification largely occurs because we don't have viable social supports to help people in economic transition in general.
- throwaway9324 11y ago"In reality, gentrification is short term bad, long term good." I would say the opposite. Most of the good effects of gentrification happens in the beginning. Then time becomes a more important factor than gentrification itself. If you can't slow gentrification at that point the bad effects really starts kicking in and you're replacing rather than transforming. All successful examples of gentrification I've seen is when you gentrify up to a point where regulation gets in the way and then because of that another area starts getting more popular, which then gentrifies up to a point etc...