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Alex you haven't actually shared your point of view.

And I agreed with bk until the name calling. (sorry bk)

It's not about squalor, people live where they can because it's where they can afford to. To have rich corporations come in and "clean up" the neighborhood that people have lived in for generations isn't about the neighborhood. It's about the money and pushing people that continue to be pushed out by society (people of color, elderly, disabled) out to another community to make money. How does that make sense to you?
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Wealth does usually = white. Yes the mix is becoming more ethnically diverse but the percentage of wealthy people is still majority white.

So when it comes to gentrification you have a community that is made up of mostly and largely communities of color (Like NE Portland Alberta district), gentrification happens, property values go up, new shops come in and the people that have lived there for generations can no longer afford to do so. The face of the neighborhood changes and those who used to live there populate another neighborhood. Until that neighborhood that's also primarily made up of communities of color gets gentrified and their forced to move again. The oppressions and continued pushing out of communities of color doesn't end and it happens over and over again.

Yes, the restaurants and coffee shops and stores are great. But it's at the downfall of the cultural and social aspects of the neighborhood.
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It's a amazing the power sticky notes have. My friends and I covered our co-workers/friends office with sticky notes for her birthday. I believe she loved and hated it all at the same time.
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My friends and I constantly talk about buying a church and converting it into a club/bar and calling it "The Cathedral" with the original paintings still up etc. Why let such a beautiful building go to waste?
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