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Originally Posted by Via Chicago
you honestly believe gentrification somehow solves poverty and segregation rather than sweeping it to another area that is in that moment less desirable to the gentry/capital? people can support economic growth that dosent also come at the expense of displacing the very people it is supposed to serve (i.e. current residents). gentrfication is literally the battle of the affluent against the poor. guess who wins that matchup everytime, and who's favor the odds are intentionally rigged? banks and other financial institutions are the primary causes and beneficiaries of gentrification. youre more interested in property rather than people, and at worst are conflating the two as the same thing.
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Are you arguing that the effects of rolling price increases in Pilsen, for example, hasn't made hundreds of previously low or middle income Mexican families millionaires? No one living in Pilsen or Logan Square has benefited from improving schools or reduced crime? How many Latino teens that have grown up in Logan Square are NOT dead that would have been killed in gang activity that was disrupted merely by the introduction of Gentry which has zero fear of "snitches get stitches"?
The problem with your theory about gentrification simply pushing poverty around is that it's empirically wrong. Studies have shown over and over again that people aren't actually displaced very often by gentrification and that, by in large, outflows of one group or another do not happen at a faster rate in gentrifying areas than they do in any other area. Here's a massive decade long study from the Philly Fed of 100 metros backing exactly what I'm saying up:
https://www.city-journal.org/gentrif...social-justice
There's having an opinion and then there's spitting unthe face of science. I view the anti Gentrification crowd as science loving and climate denier or anti vaxers. They deny reality. We can and do measure the effects of development in the inner city. We've done it for 100 years and there are very few studies indicating that redevelopment does anything other than improve schools and reduce crime for EVERY resident of the area.