re: Mayors Discuss Ways to Stop Gentrification

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Imagine if someone said this about keeping minorities out of white neighborhoods.

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If?

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Imagine if someone said this about keeping minorities out of white neighborhoods.

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lol at this guy thinking gentrification = white people moving in (edit: actually the OP said this too, sorry for attributing it to you first, GeauxTiger)

Because only white people are wealthy.

At least in NYC and SF, gentrification looks very diverse. And the problems caused by gentrification aren't about race, they're about poor people being displaced from where they've lived for decades, and about the neighborhood losing its character. There's a real loss.

With that said, I believe that gentrification is a natural economic process and I don't think it should be stopped. Gentrification occurs when people act freely in their own interests (people buying cheaper real estate and fixing it up). There's obviously nothing inherently wrong with that, even if it indirectly makes life harder for someone who's lived in the neighborhood much longer.