re: Mayors Discuss Ways to Stop Gentrification

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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.

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I think it's fair to say that the context of these quotes are about race. It was as the Essence festival afterall.

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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.

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Agreed.