Gentrification Argumentative Essay
Many people call gentrification a myth because they argue that displacement is a fiction and will always happen and that it is a good thing for poor minorities. Many studies have examined whether this phenomenon affects or benefit communities. In order to understand this issue we need to define gentrification. The classic gentrification is usually defined as the process of neighborhoods changing that results in the displacement of lower income communities by the affluent populations. The issue of gentrification has historically included a strong racial component - lower income African American residents are replaced by higher income white residents. Beveridge, Halle, Telles, & Dufault (2013) identify an important issue of how it seems that
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Ms. Rivera questions, “how can they argue this building will bring people together? When the rich already want to be “especially” transported to the building because they don’t want to walk among a community that, according to them, is dirty and full of poor people.” She described this is the beginning of gentrification and the door to racism because “before no one wanted to live here, not even come here, and now the white people come to drink at the …show more content…
We must clarify the term gentrification is prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class. It was never meant to benefit everyone in the community. In reality, it was always meant to make change the structure of class in a certain area by raising property value through mass renovation and development. Here it is where the racial injustice in New York City comes in: why are the areas largely populated by minorities the main targets for gentrification?Why gentrifiers do not plan to go, buy, and destroy a housing building in the mid city to build a Luxurious hotel? The plan of gentrification does not only support a system of white privilege, it also makes it more difficult for those living below the poverty line to start living above it, unless these residents are
Ms. Rivera questions, “how can they argue this building will bring people together? When the rich already want to be “especially” transported to the building because they don’t want to walk among a community that, according to them, is dirty and full of poor people.” She described this is the beginning of gentrification and the door to racism because “before no one wanted to live here, not even come here, and now the white people come to drink at the …show more content…
We must clarify the term gentrification is prejudice against or in favor of people belonging to a particular social class. It was never meant to benefit everyone in the community. In reality, it was always meant to make change the structure of class in a certain area by raising property value through mass renovation and development. Here it is where the racial injustice in New York City comes in: why are the areas largely populated by minorities the main targets for gentrification?Why gentrifiers do not plan to go, buy, and destroy a housing building in the mid city to build a Luxurious hotel? The plan of gentrification does not only support a system of white privilege, it also makes it more difficult for those living below the poverty line to start living above it, unless these residents are