throws_rocks_at_cars t1_ix9l6i3 wrote on November 21, 2022 at 8:09 PM

Reply to comment by rockybalBOHa in City reaches 300th homicide for 8th year in a row by Maxcactus

100% of the discourse surrounding gentrification is completely unproductive and like it was shown in DC, Denver, Detroit, New York, Atlanta, and almost every other city in the US, “gentrifying” areas is a genuine net positive because it’s a made up word that, in reality, represents accessible housing, safe neighborhoods, public parks and public services, robust public transit, thriving small businesses, wealth generation, and collaborative business that raises GDP.

Gentrification is NIMBY code. The transformations that have happened in DC’s Navy Yard/SE, Atlanta’s Old Fourth Ward, and others, representing double-digit BILLIONS of dollars worth of investment, touches every part of the city and is an immense net positive.

People complaining about gentrification would prefer those places remain weed-filled cracked parking lots and piles of wind-strewn trash caught up against abandoned and condemned buildings in what is literally a wasteland.

Don’t let NIMBYs fool YOU.

todareistobmore t1_ixbd40p wrote on November 22, 2022 at 4:05 AM

> 100% of the discourse surrounding gentrification is completely unproductive and

obviously self-contradictorily, you're sallying into a thread about the homicide rate to ally with the cryptoconservative who introduced the diversion.

the best option re: housing in terms of mitigating any socioeconomic precursors to crime should be centered around mitigating those disparities. A fun game to play when people talk about gentrification as a means to trickle-down equitization is to ask them if they support landlords being required to accept voucher tenants bc, well, you know the answer.

rockybalBOHa t1_ixfz150 wrote on November 23, 2022 at 3:43 AM

I guess I'm the "cryptoconservative"? Nice word you made up there.

I don't consider myself a conservative. I'm more of a pragmatist. I see what has worked in other cities and think that's what needs to happen here because no one has done it any other way. Sure, it would be great if people could make any neighborhood safe and prosperous without population turnover, but that hasn't been the reality in America, and I doubt Baltimore is going to be the first city to figure it out.