re: Gentrification, good or bad... Thoughts?

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plenty of white neighborhoods get new things and then property values rise

its just not called gentrification

its just call progress

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"Progress" is often whitespeak for exploitation.

Notice that your example is "white neighborhoods get new things." This is not gentrification because it is improvement (a new Neiman Marcus), not displacement.

Gentrification is one group, more affluent and almost always of the dominant race, exploiting the disenfranchised and disadvantaged and gutting a long standing ethnic neighborhood.