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Neighborhoods are constituted by people not just shitty new wood frame construction.

Are migrants not considered "people"? Seems to me like a nativist argument.

I don't understand how this relates to my comment.

I think the parent was asking: why do we think that people who H1B immigrants who move in will make a worse neighborhood than current "native" residents?

Ah, I think I understand but the logic still seems a little twisted. Gentrification is an economic process, so the passport of the gentrifier doesn't really matter here.

Part of the reason I was confused is because -- at least where I live -- communities with a high number of foreign born residents are actually the ones most at risk of gentrification.

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