Quote: (12-21-2015 06:44 AM)The Beast1 Wrote:
This is part of the government's plan to depopulate the inner city ghettos for the sheer purpose of gentrification.
Big east coast ghettos have some of the best inner city living. Close to public transit links, lots of small store fronts, and mostly buildings that came up in the 1950s-60s which are way better built than some of the junk being built today. The buildings are easily renovated into swanky downtown apartments within walking distance to a subway line.
All the government wants to do is make the "cities" filled with white people in tiny boxed in buildings while the trash live on the outskirts of town. This forces the businesses that rented offices in the cheap part of the city have to come into the more expensive inner city to be closer to the smart middle class people who staff these firms.
The suburban exodus is a real thing.
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"According to the Census Bureau data, 2013 saw 2.3 million more people living in metro areas than in 2012, with 269.9 million people now living in cities and their surrounding areas."
"The trend in city living is driven primarily by two groups: young professionals and Baby Boomers, who are retiring and moving back to the cities they left when they started families. William Frey, a demographer at the Brookings Institution, told USA Today. Frey described the trend as a “180 degree” switch from the exodus to the suburbs over the last decade."
"In all but five of the fastest-growing metro areas, the largest contributor to growth was net migration and not higher birth rates, according to the Census Bureau. Among the cities with the highest “natural increase” are Washington, D.C., and Provo-Orem, Utah, which was recently voted the city with the highest rate of well-being in the nation."
Source: http://www.thewire.com/national/2014/03/...us/359714/
All those SWPL yuppie types who grew up in the middle-upper class suburbs are flooding cities and making their mark with a cupcake shop on every corner. Plus, people are having kids later/not at all, want shorter commutes, walkable towns, and all the benefits of city life. They grew up in the bland suburbs and want nothing to do with it. I can understand and sympathize with this to some extent.
Of course, there are a ton of ghetto enclaves right now that are VERY ripe for gentrification. As noted, they have transport links, solid housing stock with "character", and tons of nearby work options. In a way, I'm OK with large ghetto enclaves being wiped out and moved elsewhere. Imagine if large parts of DC outside of northwest were safe, walkable, and nice. Southside Chicago? Baltimore? Detroit? Nearly every large city in America has significant ghetto enclaves that take up A LOT of valuable real estate. Why should deadbeats living on welfare get prime real estate?
For us guys on here who like good logistics, affordable rents, and not having to need a car, opening up large part of cities that were former war zones would do wonders for options. However, ghetto people have to go somewhere and as I made clear in my original post, they shouldn't be getting fast-tracked on the governments dime into nice middle class suburbs that some people work a life time to live in.
Instead, they should move on their own accord to where they can afford; thereby not disrupting the socio-economic integrity of areas they have no business being in; like nice middle class neighborhoods.. There is PLENTY of open space in this country with cheap land/rents and no people around to disturb. Built up cities with transport options on the other hand are very limited though. Again, why should significant sections of these potentially great cities belong to the welfare dependent class? If the gov't wants to intervene, give them and their teenage kids birth control, moving money to these open land areas, and an education voucher to goto a vo-tech/community college to learn something marketable (they can get this already via a Pell Grant).
When you hear about programs like the one in the article, all you hear from libtard idiots is how this and that is good for progress and equality. Nevermind the fact that YOUR family might have worked a lifetime to EARN their way into that nice middle class neighborhood that someone from the ghetto, who has made nothing but poor choices in life, gets the tax funded fast-track into it. Like many things in America, those that make sacrifices and do things right get punished while fuck-ups get rewarded. The final insult being that those that sacrificed pay for the fuck-ups reward.
It's an odd thing. One of the rally cries you hear among libtards is how gentrification in cities is pushing poor ghetto people out of future prime neighborhoods, that this isn't good and something should be done to make sure they can stay in-place via subsidies. Maybe its karma in a way. They took over my neighborhood in the suburbs. Now maybe I should take over theirs in the city.