I don't understand ppl complaining about gentrification

Idk what it's like around u but around here, they take homes that are almost condemned, fix them up, and sell them for maybe a little bit above the neighborhood average. I see these homes before and after. I see what they buy them for and what they sell them for.

The homes are still in the regular price range for the neighborhoods, maybe a little on the high end but definetly affordable.

It doesn't stop ppl in the area from affording to buy these homes. And Idk how it destroys culture because of that.

Yeah u lose a old house in ur neighborhood because it needed to be fixed up.

What wrongs with this

This page is a permanent link to the reply below and its nested replies. See all post replies »

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

Because it displaces and drives out the people who made the place desirable to begin with.

terribleperson

@CountScrofula uhhhhh

Idk how it displaces someone out of a home that is for sale and almost uninhabitable to begin with

And belive me none of these neighborhoods r desireable

The only motivation ppl from outside these neighborhoods have to move in is because the property is cheaper

CountScrofula · 41-45, M

@terribleperson Well you're taking extremes here.

What usually happens is a working class neighbourhood that may have had people there with a distinct culture which entices people. Trendy places open up, properties are bought and replaced, and the rents skyrocket so the original people have to move.

It's less of an issue if a place is completely run down, but people in poverty still need a place to live - so where do they go?

terribleperson

So it's more renters that r affected