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

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Insomniac100

Because it destroys the cohesiveness and culture of areas that are gentrified as well as driving out current inhabitants. I’ve seen it around DC growing up around that area. Everytime I go to the city, more and more areas get gentrified. I used to walk down this neighborhood with my dad when I was little because there was a good soul food/chicken spot there and I’d see neighborhood kids playing with the fire hidrant and old people playing their saxophone on their stoops. It’s was a neat little community. Now that whole block is a row of startbucks and a vegan place with pretentious townhouses across from it. The place has no soul

terribleperson

@Insomniac100 well soul is being kicked out of every community regardless of area or anything. Wallstreet overtaking main Street seems to be a separate issue but ppl keep bring up business in this conversation so that might play a part.

I guess if I wanted to hone my question, what is wrong with developers coming into community and modernizing them

Insomniac100

@terribleperson I already answered that. None of the people living in the those communities will be able to afford to live their anymore and will be kicked out after property developers jack up the prices. If you value your own perception of “modernization” over people being able to live in their own homes idk what to say. As far as “soul” what I meant was how most of these gentrified communities lose things such as community festivals, town halls, along with locally owned restaurants among other things.

terribleperson

From what I'm seeing the developers r selling the houses at the market averages. They don't want to make more renovation then they need to and they don't want to sell a house out of the price range of the neighborhood. No one would buy it and they wouldn't make money.

Yeah a lot of those things r going away in general aren't they? Even in already wealthy communities and such. Already overly developed areas are losing locally owned businesses. Less people are going out to social things and socializing online these days. A lot of that is just a normal change right now