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[–]IridescentAnaconda 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

The problem with gentrification is it is the improvement of a neighborhood for the benefit of the (usually white) people who have just moved there. If (usually white) people improved a neighborhood without expecting anything in return for it, then that would be welcomed. Actually, what should really happen is that white people should vacate their beautiful, clean, and spacious suburban homes and given them to BIPOC and trans people. They can go to the urban ghetto homes that BIPOC people leave but still pay them rent (or I dunno, just be homeless). And when the beautiful, clean and spacious suburban homes end up trashed and the ghetto becomes beautiful through the efforts of the people now forced to live there, (usually white) people will be expected to move back to their trashed homes (but keep paying rent to BIPOC folx).

That's how it should work.

[–]Canbot 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

AOC is that you?