Re:Why don't black and white Americans live together?
by totalZero on Thursday September 22, 2016 @03:23PM
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I always kind of assumed there was a constant gentrification effect in cheap NYC neighborhoods because young people are price sensitive, no matter what their race or profession.
Ethnic neighborhood is cheap -> Young professionals start to move in -> Integration begins -> Businesses that cater to young professionals establish themselves in the neighborhood -> Landlords slowly but steadily increase rent -> New immigrants and children of existing ethnic tenants move to a different, less expensive neighborhood
This is a very, very untrue statement. I grew up in New York and both the city and Long Island are pretty heavily segregated by race. Yes, there are areas where there is more integration but by and large blacks live in one area and whites live in another. Housing costs in the city have made it so that integration happens for a while in some neighborhoods but really only when that neighborhood is gentrifying. Post gentrification it ends up being pretty much just white or, if you're lucky, a mix of upper middle class people of varying ethnicity but still majority white.