@DanielKO She's 23.

If I'm raising a family, I'd prefer to live near other families of similarly aged kids, similar income bracket and education level.

think about it, if a bunch of redneck hillbillys moved into your neighborhood and didnt mow their yard and left junk cars in their driveway, you would want to move out
And no one wants to live there, so property values go down

@meratrix better late than never.

live where you want, I'm just saying that when "White Flight" was a thing minorities would get discriminated against. "In the United States, Redlining is the systematic denial of various services to residents of specific, often racially associated, neighborhoods or communities, either directly or through the selective raising of prices. While the best known examples of redlining have involved denial of financial services such as banking or insurance,[2] other services such as health care[3] or even supermarkets[4] have been denied to residents."

@Deleted User And If white people move in, its called gentryfication
So no matter what whites do, they get blamed

unfortunately

"Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by means of the influx of more affluent residents."

I actually dont see how its a bad thing...

Blacks are poor

Cant afford rent

Have to leave

then move, the neighborhood shouldn't stay shitty

Ask San Francisco, locals have been demanding tech companies engineers to move out.

Because poor people can't afford to live there anymore.

@Deleted User There is a reason we Love you

My take on this is: if white people moving out turns your neighborhood to shit, maybe the whiteys were the ones keeping it nice. They don't owe a nice neighborhood to anyone. That said, government shouldn't deny services, and I believe that's illegal.

Again we turn to Empire of Dust

at some point you have to separate market forces from perceived racism. people try to do what is in their best interest, and if enough people do that trends will emerge, and then you can look at those trends later and come up with all sorts of ideas as to what the motivation behind it was. but at the end of the day, it's just people trying to improve their lives.

If you see things only in a racial lense, you will see racism where there isnt any

exactly

yup

I actually don't understand the issue with Gentrification though, I probably don't know too much about it, but from the Wikipedia article, it sounds like the shitty neighborhoods are improving when "whities" move in.

Imagine Broo and Kaden watching Empire of Dust together

As for business leaving when demographics change, could simply be the new locals spend less money on the business. Maybe they have less money, or different culture. Gotta raise prices to stay afloat, or move shop.

The second thing is, who wants to own a shop in crime infested part of town?

White Flash is different btwfrom gentrification lol @franti

It's not as simple as "I'm gonna screw those niggers, jack my prices up do they can't afford it."

"white flash"

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But The Flash has always been white... Or did DC reboot it again?

I don't care if you are Purple or Green

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lX1zIIMQg30

gentrification can be bad for poorer people because making a neighborhood "nice" drives up prices because people want to move there. also more expensive shops will move in to cater to the richer people.

I have a Dream

racism is just an excuse for commies to shit on capitalism

In the Uk we call it Keeping up Appearances

in the USA it's more White picket fences

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dtdtX8k3uaM

lol, we have that show on PBS