Many people believe that gentrification is harmful, but it’s actually helpful for improving the safety in neighborhoods, improving the economy, and improving the conditions of buildings and neighborhoods. Many people believe that gentrification is harmful, but it’s actually helpful for improving the safety in neighborhoods. According to the text “How gentrification may benefit the poor”, “There's often a decline in crime.” When people that have been living in a neighborhood for a long time and see an important change like crime declining. Wouldn’t they want to stay in an almost crime-ridden neighborhood. According to research, (http://bit.ly/1KaQdBR) economically and racially segregated areas tend to have a lot more problems with crime. That’s
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According to the text “Bring on the hipsters”, “As property prices increase, rents go up—but that also generates more property tax revenue, helping to improve local services.” These local services are education, hospitals, transportation, housing, etc. Even if your rent increases, it’s for the good to improve that neighborhood. If a gentrifier moves into a not so good neighborhood the owner of the building will try to improve the building, but if the neighborhood wasn’t gentrified the build would stay the same and not change. That could be bad or good because it depends on whether the building is a new or old. According to the text “Bring on the hipsters”, “In many cities, zoning laws force developers to build subsidized housing for the poor as well as pricey pads for well-off newcomers, which means that rising house prices can help to create more subsidized housing, not less.” This goes back to my point that “even if your rent increases, it’s for the good.” This improves the neighborhood because its gives shelter for the people who are poor. The more money the owner has the most subsided building housing he can …show more content…
Some people believe that gentrification is harmful because it kicks out the people that have been living in that apartment for a long time. According to the text “What is Gentrification?”, “ Neighborhood change is often viewed as a miscarriage of social justice, in which wealthy, usually white, newcomers are congratulated for “improving” a neighborhood whose poor, minority residents are displaced by skyrocketing rents and economic change.” When the changes are made in a neighborhood by gentrifier that causes rents to increase. This would lead to people being evacuated out of their apartment for not paying the rent. However, there is very little evidence stating that gentrification is happening. According to the text “The Myth of Gentrification”, “In fact, so-called gentrifying neighborhoods appear to experience less displacement than gentrifying neighborhoods.” When a neighborhood is so-called gentrified it improves the safety, economy, and the condition and neighborhood, which makes people want to stay in that neighborhood. People are leaving the non-gentrified neighborhood because they see that gentrified neighborhood are that it’s safer, there more jobs, and the condition of the buildings and neighborhood is
According to the text “Bring on the hipsters”, “As property prices increase, rents go up—but that also generates more property tax revenue, helping to improve local services.” These local services are education, hospitals, transportation, housing, etc. Even if your rent increases, it’s for the good to improve that neighborhood. If a gentrifier moves into a not so good neighborhood the owner of the building will try to improve the building, but if the neighborhood wasn’t gentrified the build would stay the same and not change. That could be bad or good because it depends on whether the building is a new or old. According to the text “Bring on the hipsters”, “In many cities, zoning laws force developers to build subsidized housing for the poor as well as pricey pads for well-off newcomers, which means that rising house prices can help to create more subsidized housing, not less.” This goes back to my point that “even if your rent increases, it’s for the good.” This improves the neighborhood because its gives shelter for the people who are poor. The more money the owner has the most subsided building housing he can …show more content…
Some people believe that gentrification is harmful because it kicks out the people that have been living in that apartment for a long time. According to the text “What is Gentrification?”, “ Neighborhood change is often viewed as a miscarriage of social justice, in which wealthy, usually white, newcomers are congratulated for “improving” a neighborhood whose poor, minority residents are displaced by skyrocketing rents and economic change.” When the changes are made in a neighborhood by gentrifier that causes rents to increase. This would lead to people being evacuated out of their apartment for not paying the rent. However, there is very little evidence stating that gentrification is happening. According to the text “The Myth of Gentrification”, “In fact, so-called gentrifying neighborhoods appear to experience less displacement than gentrifying neighborhoods.” When a neighborhood is so-called gentrified it improves the safety, economy, and the condition and neighborhood, which makes people want to stay in that neighborhood. People are leaving the non-gentrified neighborhood because they see that gentrified neighborhood are that it’s safer, there more jobs, and the condition of the buildings and neighborhood is