Gentrification is a process where old, often rundown, neighborhoods are taken over by affluent, young Caucasian folks, property values are raised, radically, and low- and working-class families and small businesses gets push out. Private sectors often would jump into these vulnerable towns as they see it as an opportunity to exploit the weak and poor. Not only that Smith (1992) pointed out that gentrification has been romanticized to the public audience to view the theory as “the cowboy taming the West” to steer people away from the predicaments at hand, which is to push the homeless, working- and lower class away using violent tactics to make room for the young, affluent whites. People think that by having the middle- and upper-middle class in these poor urban communities will “civilize” the people in the community. Yet when in reality, they are doing more harm than good. The homeless now have nowhere to stay or sleep. The community can’t use their park how they want to. And instead of putting funds into the shelters or build more homeless shelters, the government think that it is a wiser decision to build condominiums and extravagant buildings than to help the
Gentrification is a process where old, often rundown, neighborhoods are taken over by affluent, young Caucasian folks, property values are raised, radically, and low- and working-class families and small businesses gets push out. Private sectors often would jump into these vulnerable towns as they see it as an opportunity to exploit the weak and poor. Not only that Smith (1992) pointed out that gentrification has been romanticized to the public audience to view the theory as “the cowboy taming the West” to steer people away from the predicaments at hand, which is to push the homeless, working- and lower class away using violent tactics to make room for the young, affluent whites. People think that by having the middle- and upper-middle class in these poor urban communities will “civilize” the people in the community. Yet when in reality, they are doing more harm than good. The homeless now have nowhere to stay or sleep. The community can’t use their park how they want to. And instead of putting funds into the shelters or build more homeless shelters, the government think that it is a wiser decision to build condominiums and extravagant buildings than to help the