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Re:Gentrification's Price: S.F. Moves: Yuppies In, the Poor ... by 40acres on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:07PM (#17017604)
In principal gentrification is fine, in practice its usually a mess. I'm from Brooklyn, which is definitely gentrified by any means. It's nice that property values are up, new businesses are booming, and crime is down -- but there is something to be said about the community which underwent decades of over-policing, redlining and discriminatory practices being booted out all because some property developers thought the neighborhood was "hot".
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Re:Gentrification's Price: S.F. Moves: Yuppies In, the Poor ... by _jal on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:20PM (#17017686)
I lived in Brooklyn for the better part of a decade, and was a gentrifier. I watched two neighborhoods change, and it seems to me the hard thing to talk about is that everything that's lost is immaterial. Destroying a neighborhood of folks who know each other can show larges gains on the balance sheet, but the losses can't be quantified.

Maybe Facebook can find a way to monetize those social relations, so the could be recognized as having a value. (/s)

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