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Originally Posted by bulldurhamer
Also, don’t call me a troll. I could call you a motherfucker but that would be mean to your mom so i wont. I will consider calling you a racist asshole though since it’s clear what bullshit you’re prioritizing. And ignoring the pressured hispanic neighborhoods is prefect.
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When the demand for living in a particular urban neighborhood dramatically increases in a short period of time, the vacancy rate drops to an "unhealthy" level and the real estate values rise far more rapidly than normal. As a result, two things (among others) happen: The neighborhood becomes so expensive that some of the lower-income residents can no longer afford to stay, and, developers develop because the pent-up demand presents an opportunity. Subsequently, gentrification and new development tend to coincide. It then becomes easy for some people to blame the one thing on the other. That's a myopic way of thinking in my opinion.
The people who frequent this forum tend to be the kind of geeks who read up on this development stuff. They tend to believe -- and IMO rightly so -- that increasing housing supply in neighborhoods with pent-up demand, eases the pressure on the market, and that, without it, gentrification would actually be worse because the value of such limited stock would rise even faster as more and more people compete for whatever piece they can get. Now of course you don't have to agree with that, but I hope you can at least see that there is some valid reasoning behind such an opinion, and that no one here is being unsympathetic to the displacement of Latinos -- let alone racist.
You have been consistently rude and abrasive from the beginning. Now I don't know if that's your true character, or if it's just a persona you take on for the purpose of trolling (I suspect the latter), but I would appreciate it if you would either make an attempt to be civil or leave.