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re: Historically black neighborhoods in lafayette fear gentrification pushing them out.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:02 pm to A Smoke Break
Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:02 pm to A Smoke Break
quote:What do you mean duh?
People wanted to build newer homes in Scott/Carencro/Broussard/Youngsville because duh
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Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:08 pm to madddoggydawg
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What do you mean duh?
You have a lot of money that you want to invest in a newer home. All of the newer jobs/roads/infrastructure/stores/chains gravitate towards that end of town.
You really think I'm going to live right on an extention to an interstate that has awful traffic, older infrastructure, lower quality homes, and just an older base for everything?
Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:16 pm to A Smoke Break
quote:Why do you think this is?
All of the newer jobs/roads/infrastructure/stores/chains gravitate towards that end of town.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:24 pm to madddoggydawg
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Why do you think this is?
Economics. Mostly trend based and speculative/investment based. Based around chess players using land as the pawns.
Poverty has more to do with this than race. The same shite happens at your trailer parks than your ghettos.
Also, finish reading my comment:
You really think I'm going to live right on an extention to an interstate that has awful traffic, older infrastructure, lower quality homes, and just an older base for everything?
That's why I think that is what it is. At least in the case of lafayette. Evangeline thrw will always be horrible. Just like no one chooses to live in freetown.
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 2:26 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 2:28 pm to A Smoke Break
quote:
unpaid taxes, liens, need for repairs and foreclosure are all reasons people are losing their homes.
quote:
the tactics and strategies used, usually lead to those who actually live there, being pushed out,
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This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 3:23 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:00 pm to A Smoke Break
quote:How do you think this came to be?
You really think I'm going to live right on an extention to an interstate that has awful traffic, older infrastructure, lower quality homes, and just an older base for everything?
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:01 pm to A Smoke Break
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:03 pm to HeadSlash
quote:
How do you think this came to be?
Speculative.
Local.
Economics.
Based.
Around.
What
I've
Already
Said
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:04 pm to LNCHBOX
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They say this like it's a bad thing for that kind of culture to go away
But if another ethnicity moves into a predominantly white, Christian, suburban area, it’s considered a positive to see the culture change.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:07 pm to A Smoke Break
quote:What are they speculating?
Speculative. Local. Economics.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:10 pm to A Smoke Break
How are they being pushed out? It sounds like they are voluntarily selling their property.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:13 pm to madddoggydawg
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What are they speculating?
Dude, is this 20 questions?
Google speculative investing. They're banking on financial trends in the job, housing, and retail markets.
Better living follows money, plain and simple. Same can be said for those who want to invest in lower income areas: more money and more investing brings better infrastructure/education/living/retail/housing.
It's why you see the horrid "gentrification" word thrown around for private investment, yet when the government attempts the same with our tax dollars, it falls apart. Corruption and misallocation of funds has a lot to do with that.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:17 pm to A Smoke Break
I know you're attempting to race bait, but let's get this straight:
Numbers and stats don't see race. They see poverty, which is directly correlated to your financial statistics. Plain and simple.
But at the end of the day, that's based around POVERTY. White students who grow up in the same locations run the risk for the same leg chains of poverty. See: Eunice, Jennings, Rayne, Crowley, Opelousas, Ville Platte. Unless you come from farming or already have a family member with a specialized job, you probably WILL be either in the service sector, military, or oil field. Point blank. And it's YOUR responsibility to fix your situation. The state fails THOSE communities and kids, black and white.
Numbers and stats don't see race. They see poverty, which is directly correlated to your financial statistics. Plain and simple.
But at the end of the day, that's based around POVERTY. White students who grow up in the same locations run the risk for the same leg chains of poverty. See: Eunice, Jennings, Rayne, Crowley, Opelousas, Ville Platte. Unless you come from farming or already have a family member with a specialized job, you probably WILL be either in the service sector, military, or oil field. Point blank. And it's YOUR responsibility to fix your situation. The state fails THOSE communities and kids, black and white.
This post was edited on 4/30/21 at 3:19 pm
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:19 pm to Niamey Vice
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Why is gentrification looked down upon but black people moving into historically white neighborhoods not?
Why do you think? Because in the former scenario they risk losing a Democrat locked seat.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:21 pm to A Smoke Break
My neighborhood is kind of like that. I see more white people jogging and walking dogs every week. Houses are getting renovated all over the place. Zillow prices are up about 10% in the last 6 months. The school ratings shown in Zillow, etc. have even crept up.
I don't see where this is a bad thing.
I don't see where this is a bad thing.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:22 pm to Upperdecker
NO - EVERYBODY (except whitie) has a RIGHT to get EVERYTHING for FREE.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:41 pm to A Smoke Break
quote:So you can see why “young professionals“ moving as far away as possible from the north east side of Lafayette would facilitate better living for them than the abandoned communities that you suggest should be grateful to leave their homes?
Better living follows money, plain and simple.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 3:50 pm to A Smoke Break
I would take a flame thrower to parts of the North Side if I could. Lafayette is a cool little city ,but driving in on 49 to the Evangeline Thruway is usually the first thing people see who are not from the area. City would be so much better if parts of the North Side weren't such a shithole.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 4:07 pm to A Smoke Break
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The fear is if the properties in these neighborhoods are bought the long-standing history and culture will be lost.
A culture formed due to white supremacy and institutional racism that cares less when a black life is taken by a black than a “white supremacist” police officer doesn’t sound like a bad thing to lose…
But seriously like someone mentioned it’s racist when whites leave them and area goes bad, and it’s racist when whites come back and want to improve the area.
Quit hanging onto a culture of victimhood and blame. The Soul of a Nation is Hollywood BS, and will never be true until blacks let go of their broken culture, group think, group victimhood, their need to see race first always, and need to think every perceived negative interaction with a white person is because of the white person’s racism towards them instead of their own attitude they bring into the interaction and also their own racism towards white people and really all other races.
I know it’s not all blacks or most of them, but we are back to being told to see them as a group and not individuals with too few standing up to the current message pushers. That message drives that thugs are martyrs and are the actual heart and soul of the “Soul of a Nation” culture.
Posted on 4/30/21 at 4:44 pm to sawtooth
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In Baton Rouge blacks will move into white neighborhoods as soon as they can financially afford it.
Funny thing about this racist country...that is not unique to Baton Rouge. It literally happens in every metro area I've ever seen.
Why do so many black families want to be near deplorables?
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