re: What is your opinion on the gentrification of N.O.?

Im in support of it

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Ohhh. You're an out of towner ignorantly commenting on our city structure who should just shut the frick up.

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What an ignorant comment. You don't have to be a woman to understand sexism. You don't have to be a minority to understand racism. Believe it or not, gentrification is a common occurrence in many cities (not just NO) and a lot of people can understand it and appreciate it.

It's great! We have a home for the displaced, it's called New Orleans East.

Whitey will kill the culture

When wealthy people left the city, they were blamed for its demise. Perhaps considered racists too. Cities need a tax base and it showed when they left.

Now wealthy people are moving back in and being blamed for displacing poorer folks.

Where are wealthy people supposed to live to keep everyone happy?

at you slamming Bottomland. You are really ignorant to his experiences and knowledge of current New Orleans. As a native Bottom as been a very informative poster with a wealth of knowledge of changes taking place in the area. For instance he knows more about the greenway than anyone else on this board.

And FYI the neighborhood is called Bywater not The Bywater. Only transplant hipsters call it The Bywater. You should know that.

Look, no one who is objective about it really has a problem with with moving people from one subsidized housing project to another. The only way I could see justifying the failed current situation is if there was some cultural value to preserving a neighborhood, but in this case there would be a value to all in breaking up the status quo.

That said, I can see how someone who works hard at an entry or blue collar job would be upset when their rent jumps 50% and they have to move away from a neighborhood they've lived in their entire life.

But the reality is the current situation in New Orleans and elsewhere is that we've been living in a deviation brought on by the race riots of the sixties and generations of terrible government in our urban areas that chased out jobs and people who otherwise would've priced out those workers 40 years ago.

Basic market forces dictate that the best jobs and most expensive neighborhoods should be located in the city and that low wage workers would be located in the less desirable outer rings. People shouldn't naturally aspire to a 45 minute commute, they are forced to do it by the threat of crime and declining property values. Remove those two factors and the tide of affluence will start to flow back in.

We are just seeing a slow return to the mean so to speak and the only thing that will stop it is more poor government or an economic downturn.

It's freaking awesome. N.O. is better than it's been in 50 plus years right now.
And not just because some hipsters came into some bad neighborhoods.
People of all types have moved here like crazy and there are renovations and new construction of every kind going on all over the city in every neighborhood.

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When your working class can no longer afford to go to work. I don't know the solution, but I know a lot of cities are currently facing the problem of blue collar workers being forced out of the cities by higher rates. In New Orleans you have a huge service labor force that barely makes it by as is. New Orleans public transit blows donkey dick. How are those people going to get in to the city to work?

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Breesus, all he said in this statement was s general observation about gentrification - and a correct one at that. Then he made a factual statement about public transportation in NOLA (unless you want to argue that public transportation in NOLA is good )

You generally come across as a decent guy on here, so I'm not sure who pissed in your Cheerios this morning, but you don't have to live in New Orleans to understand basic principals of gentrification. New Orleans is a specia city, but it's not immune to the same cause and effect principals that other cities going through the same process have experienced.