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Comments

Re: Unpopular opinion thread

[(Anonymous)]

They don't 'turn the place around', though. They change it, and they destroy it, and it can never come back. They're like the Borg - they make every place after their own image. They destroy diversity, they destroy difference, they destroy distinctiveness.

I'm not saying that awful, crime-ridden neighborhoods have any kind of sanctity. But I don't think the solution is necessarily good, either. It's this endless process - they take every place, they fill it with the same kinds of shops, the same kinds of people, and then it becomes subject to the pressure of the market and the laws of supply and demand, and rents go up and up and it's another quirky, pleasant middle-class neighborhood. And the poor people are moved on to somewhere else shittier, and that territory never comes back. And quirky middle-class neighborhoods are nice. They are. I like them. But can't we have any kind of diversity in this country? Isn't there some option besides suburbs, crime-ridden inner city, and quirky slightly Bohemian middle-class cafe neighborhood? Why can't we have a style of city where there's room for more than one culture, where it's possible to have a diversity of class and race without having urban blight? Why is that apparently impossible? I mean, what's the endpoint look like ere?

I like hipsters personally, and I like the neighborhoods they live in (because I am no less a part of this process than any of us are). But I hate the implacable logic with which the process operates, and the homogenization it ultimately entails, and I wish it didn't have to be that way.

Re: Unpopular opinion thread

[(Anonymous)]

But how do you get rid of urban blight without making the people who caused it, the original people who lived there, move? Because if it was a good neighborhoods it would have had good people in it in the first place. I don't mean middle class people. I mean people who aren't junkies, thieves, muggers, etc. It's people like that, that make a neighborhood "bad." How do you change a neighborhood without having to get rid of them?

Re: Unpopular opinion thread

[(Anonymous)]

I don't have all the answers. It's a complicated question.

That said, there are two points that I would make. First, I think it's at least possible that you can move these people out without replacing them with the hipster gentrification train - at least in theory, I don't see why this is the only thing that can fill the void.

Second, I think a lot of the answer probably comes down to having a balanced economy - towards having good, well-paying working class jobs, to having a social safety net, to not having tons of poverty, to not having massive class inequalities. I think that's an enormous part of it that affects these topics in a myriad of ways - I think you're going to have less crime and blight, and I think you're going to have more people who aren't hipsters who can afford to move into a place, and all that. And I think in general, there are ways to combat urban blight besides gentrification - I mean, we say these are bad neighborhoods, but I don't think there's really that many places where everyone who lives there is bad, you know? It's always more complicated, and I think a lot of the answer has to do with the good people who are already living there.