Apoc3005
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| 17 Sep 2014 06:01 PM |
Gentrification is a shift in an urban community toward wealthier residents and/or businesses and increasing property values.
It is commonly considered a negative change to urban communities.
A video representation of gentrification: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jc6_XgtOQgI
Quotes from those who oppose gentrification: "Thanks Gentrification! Taxes grew, landlords raised, ethnicities dispersed,... Now we're the best ballers on the block!" - Anonymous, sarcasm from a Caucasian POV
"...the motherfkin’ Christopher Columbus Syndrome. You can’t discover this! We been here. You just can’t come and bogart. There were brothers playing motherfkin’ African drums in Mount Morris Park for 40 years and now they can’t do it anymore because the new inhabitants said the drums are loud. My father’s a great jazz musician. He bought a house in nineteen-motherfkin’-sixty-eight, and the motherfkin’ people moved in last year and called the cops on my father. He’s not — he doesn’t even play electric bass! It’s acoustic! We bought the motherfkin’ house in nineteen-sixty-motherfkin’-eight and now you call the cops? In 2013? Get the fk outta here!" - Spike Lee
How do you feel about gentrification? I'm curious of your responses.
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Apoc3005
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Apoc3005
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| 17 Sep 2014 06:07 PM |
| are all of the social philosophers and trolls sleeping? |
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Apoc3005
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Apoc3005
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Dravum
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| 17 Sep 2014 06:41 PM |
| if the people living there couldn't fix it up then lol happens |
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Altair55
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| 17 Sep 2014 06:43 PM |
>negative change >rich people and businesses moving in
Ok tyrone we get it |
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Apoc3005
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| 17 Sep 2014 06:49 PM |
they're arguing that it's 1. ruining their culture 2. forcing them to move to other neighborhoods because they can't afford to live their anymore (which is in turn a domino effect because as they move out, the land is occupied and re-purposed for higher income) |
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Altair55
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| 17 Sep 2014 07:26 PM |
| Yeah sorry that the first world is moving you out of section 8 housing I guess |
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Meercast
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Apoc3005
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| 18 Sep 2014 07:01 PM |
| Anyone care to oppose gentrification? |
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