Comment on The first step of gentrification is that the people that protest gentrification have moved in
whaleross@lemmy.world 6 months agoMy intent was a quite light hearted observation that I’ve made over the years when a hip crowd takes a liking to a previously neglected area and very rapidly claim to be hashtag-first and whine about gentrification with stickers and chatter in the cafes of which none of its kind has been there before.
NeptuneOrbit@lemmy.world 6 months ago
I think you could learn a bit about intersectionality?
So step one, is a group with political and economic power moves/redlines/ghettoizes a group of socially and economically.
Step two is to devalue that area. Through property tax funded schools. Through eminent domain. Under investment. Racial discrimination. Over policing.
Step three? People with no economic sway eventually move there because housing is cheaper and capitalism is relentless. Often newer immigrants, sexual minorities.
Step four, the artists follow suit, because yeah it’s the only place they can afford to live, with all the economic pressures.
Step five, it’s “safe” and sanitized for the trust funders and yuppies to move in.
All the while, during the later stages it gets too expensive for the people who had originally lived there to continue to do so.
And at what point are people allowed or not allowed to notice the cycle that perpetuates poverty, especially race based/zip code based poverty?
whaleross@lemmy.world 6 months ago
Dude. Chill.