Whites have been pushed out further and further by black and hispanics due to massive demographic changes. America will soon be more ghetto and slums then actual suburbs. Soon most Americans will be living in ghettos while the few whites will be living in their ivory towers like Brazil/South Africa.
The cities were actually a lot worse in the 1970's/1980's and the problem areas even bigger. Now these same demographics are complaining gentrification has turned many areas that were once mostly minority areas into mixed areas.
This post is part of our online forum on Race, Property, and Economic History. Ask anyone in Boston, “what’s going on in Roxbury?” and the word you’re most likely to hear is gentrification. Ask that same question in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury, and the word you’re probably...
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Ask anyone in Boston, “what’s going on in Roxbury?” and the word you’re most likely to hear is
gentrification. Ask that same question in the predominantly Black neighborhood of Roxbury, and the word you’re probably going to hear is displacement
. These two responses both say something important about what’s happening in Boston
as well as in other cities across the nation.
As speculators, developers and realtors marvel at record breaking real estate sales in Roxbury, real estate prices continue to soar at an alarming rate in what was once, dismissively, if not disparagingly, called “
the ghetto.” For many longtime residents, it may represent a “perfect storm”–a devastating mix of racialized gentrification, property exploitation, displacement, and capitalism. These changes have occurred so rapidly and with such ferocity, in fact, that the term “
hyper-gentrification” more aptly describes Boston’s current trajectory.
Newly released census data confirms what many in Harlem already knew: the neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying.
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HARLEM, NY — Harlem gained more than 18,000 white residents since 2010 while losing thousands of Black and Hispanic people, confirming what many in the neighborhood have known for years: gentrification is underway.
'We are in a war here': Black and Latino residents fight gentrification in L.A.
....With property and rent prices going up across Los Angeles, people with money — most of them white — are being drawn to formerly undesirable minority neighbourhoods where residents fear their culture will be erased.
"It kind of has the resonance of Columbus discovering America," says University of Southern California sociology professor Manuel Pastor. "That is, a newcomer sort of not understanding there was actually a thriving population already existing in the area and thinking that this is a barren wasteland on which to build something new."
UNITED STATES Chinatowns are at risk of disappearing due to accelerated gentrification, according to a new report. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) surveyed Chinatowns i…
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Chinatowns are at risk of disappearing due to accelerated gentrification, according to a new report. The Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund (AALDEF) surveyed Chinatowns in Boston, New York, and Philadelphia and found that the Asian populations in all communities are decreasing while rent and median housing value are increasing.
