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A comment on Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Urban U.S. Communities.

Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by hackncheese on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:17PM (#37126260)
Initiatives like these always prompt the question in my mind about gentrification. Money just seems to move so much faster than the legal system to keep gentrification in check
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Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by egoregorov on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:41PM (#37126546)
why is gentrification, rich people moving into to poor areas, a bad thing?
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Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by ch4s3 on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:22PM (#37126326)
It boggles my my that any time there is an attempt to invest in the built environment of poor communities, someone always cries gentrification.
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Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by TulliusCicero on Monday August 14, 2023 @04:39PM (#37126527)
They're not entirely wrong: if you make some area nicer, people with more money still start outbidding people with less money to live there.

The solution is to fix the situation with housing:

* Enable vastly more housing supply so there's less direct 'competition' with people competing for housing slots

* Protect tenants' rights to housing stability; if you haven't broken any rules, you should generally be able to stay in your home

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Re:Bezos Earth Fund Grants $400M for Greening Underserved Ur... by ch4s3 on Monday August 14, 2023 @05:23PM (#37126992)
Yes, I too am pro building more housing. It's generally the people that call restoring parks or adding bike lanes "gentrification" that oppose building more housing.
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