‘One Property at a Time’: Newark Tries to Revive Without Gentrifying

Re:‘One Property at a Time’: Newark Tries to Revive Without ... by sickcodebruh on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:06AM (#26060995)

Gentrification is not an issue of one race displacing another, it is an issue of wealthier people moving into a poorer area and displacing the people who live there and destroying their communities. The racial aspect of it is related to the uneven distribution of wealth in America.

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Re:‘One Property at a Time’: Newark Tries to Revive Without ... by eggbert12 on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:14AM (#26061044)

That may be your perspective and the academic treatment of gentrification, but it’s use almost entirely seems to have been racial in recent years.

Wealthy black people moving into a neighborhood of other black people, and displacing them, gets no attention. Wealthy POC moving into a poor white neighborhood happens all the time in Atlanta, no mention of gentrification.

The word may having a different meaning in the dictionary, but it’s actual use almost always seems to be racial, and almost always about white people displacing non whites

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Re:‘One Property at a Time’: Newark Tries to Revive Without ... by david38 on Monday February 08, 2021 @09:45AM (#26065121)

Something can only be racist and talked about if it happens to select people. /s

If people spoke more in terms of wealth than color, a lot more people would be on board.

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Re:‘One Property at a Time’: Newark Tries to Revive Without ... by gurumeditations on Monday February 08, 2021 @12:12AM (#26061026)

Wealth and race is inextricably tied in the US though. Any wealth issue like gentrification will inevitably bring up racial passions as well.

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