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    1 year ago

    Gentrification is a good thing and being anti-gentrification is being pro-ghetto.

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        1 year ago

        What does this even mean?

        Gentrifying a place is investment of capital into formerly-poor areas in cities, and formerly-poor areas in cities were poor because they were ghettos, generally as a result of redlining, white flight, or both.

        We should be gentrifying every inner city, subsidizing current-occupant rent as it climbs, and lifting people out of the ghettos we built.

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            No I think when you shove a bunch of “undesirables” into an area by literally not letting them get loans or see houses outside of that area, you create ghettos.

            You may wanna give “redlining” a Google, and then search up the history of places you want to “protect” from gentrification. You’ll find the two are nearly always connected.

            We owe it to the people who live there to financially apologize for the atrocities we committed upon them and their families in the past.