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Is gentrification a bad thing?

Neighbourhoods change, some get richer and some get poorer. That is the way of things. Both poor and rich alike need somewhere to live.

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The poor should get to share in the benefits of the improving community too, instead of having to move out, probably further from work, friends, etc. There are ways to control for this, of course, so it doesn't have to be so. Honestly, the poor get screwed over systemically in so many ways, I wonder where this ranks in relation to the others.

I guess I haven't seen neighborhoods get particularly poorer for some time, unless we're counting the tent cities.

Many places like this in the Rust Belt or Appalachia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decline_of_Detroit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_ghost_towns_in_the_Un...

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