Gentrification Pro and Con: Is it Screwing up Los Angeles and Hurting the Poor? Or Making Life Better? | L.A. Weekly. [Editor's note: What better topic than gentrification to split people in Los Angeles into distinct camps? Below, writers Art Tavana and Isaac Simpson passionately argue the point and counterpoint of L.A.'s gentrification boom.] Just Say "Yes" to Gentrification By Art Tavana Angelenos are sun-addicted colonizers who expect the pristine charm of their Victorian homes in Echo Park, the hippie stank of Venice, and daily weather patterns to respond to their personal preferences. When someone interferes with their self-entitled chi, they freak out and rely on loaded words like "gentrification" to identify the boogeyman: middle-class hipsters. We're spoiled enough here to have "tall-fence critics," who whine that residents of Venice won't let drunks run around their front lawns. Angelenos don't know their history from a 99-cent store: Before the film studios, in the mid-1800s, ranches and prostitution houses reigned. 1. 2. 3.
Not exactly. 4. 5. Follow Art Tavana on Twitter @NoiseJourno. 1. 2. 3. The gentrification of Skid Row - a story that will decide the future of Los Angeles | Cities. In the centre of one of the world’s most high-profile cities lies a concentration of desperate poverty unlike any other in the developed world. Los Angeles’s Skid Row, a common name for a once-common form of down-and-out quarter in American cities, persists as the last neighbourhood of its kind.
Skid Row’s very existence illustrates a major planning mistake the southern Californian metropolis made in the past. The struggles over what to do with it now reveal the extent of the challenge facing LA in its current transformation into a denser, more traditionally urban city. It’s no exaggeration to call Skid Row one of the main battlegrounds for the future of Los Angeles. The neighbourhood went from metaphorical to literal battleground last Sunday when, on a rare rainy day in this city, an altercation with Los Angeles Police Department officers resulted in the death of a 45-year-old resident. We know the victim lived in a tent; he’d pitched it near the corner of San Pedro and 6th street. Viva Gentrification! LOS ANGELES — FOR years, our family journeys have taken us from our hillside home, in the multiethnic Mount Washington district of northeast Los Angeles, into the flatlands of the Latino barrios that surround it.
My wife, Virginia Espino, who is Mexican-American, knows these neighborhoods well, especially the community called Highland Park. She grew up there in the 1960s and 1970s, when it was still integrated, before “white flight” was complete. In the decades that followed, Spanish-language ads took over the billboards, and the complexions of the locals became almost exclusively cinnamon and café con leche. Gentrification May Be Complicated, But It’s Not a Myth. In a recent Slate article, John Buntin, a correspondent for Governing magazine, argues that gentrification is a myth, a claim that we’ve certrainly heard before.
And much like his predecessors, Mr. Buntin bases this claim on two premises: that displacement is a fiction and that gentrification, or what we erroneously call gentrification, is not only incredibly rare, but a good thing for poor minorities living in bad neighborhoods. It’s a contrary position, and like many contrary positions, it claims to add nuance when in fact it elides it. And perhaps most importantly, Mr. Buntin’s argument is simply wrong. “It started in Soho, then moved to Chelsea and the East Village. Mr. Because, he claims, poor people of color aren’t being displaced by well-off white people at all: “Simply documenting that low-income people were being forced out of a neighborhood whose housing prices were rising didn’t mean in and of itself that gentrification was causing displacement, ” he writes.
New York City Gentrification Maps and Data. To assess how gentrification has reshaped urban neighborhoods, Governing analyzed demographic data for the nation’s 50 most populous cities. Changes in several measures, described below, were calculated for each city’s Census tracts and compared to others throughout metro areas. While the methodology is similar to prior research on the subject, no universally accepted definition of gentrification exists. Gentrification remains rare nationally. It did, however, greatly accelerate in many cities over the past decade. Gentrifying Census Tracts: These lower-income Census tracts experienced significant growth in both home values and educational attainment. Tracts Not Gentrifying: These Census tracts met eligibility criteria, but did not experience enough growth in educational attainment and median home values relative to other tracts within a metro area to have gentrified. New York City Gentrification Map: 2000 Census - Present Click a tract to display its demographic data: Map Key.
The Gentrification Effect. Using data from 1990, 2000 and 2010, Maciag found that in four major cities 50 percent or more of poor census tracts gentrified from 2000 to 2010: Portland, 58.1 percent; Washington, 51.9 percent; Minneapolis, 50.6 percent; and Seattle, 50 percent. Other cities experiencing substantial gentrification were Denver, 42.1 percent; Austin, 39.7 percent; New York, 29.8 percent; Philadelphia, 28.7 percent; San Diego, 27.5 percent; Baltimore, 23.2 percent; and Boston, 21.1 percent. The migration of professionals, often with advanced degrees, into the core of the nation’s cities is graphically illustrated in a study conducted at the University of Virginia.
Luke Juday, a research and demographic policy analyst at the University of Virginia, found striking changes between 1990 and 2010 in income and education patterns in Charlotte, N.C. In 1990, as shown in Figure 2, the highest level of education was found in the suburbs, seven to eight miles distant from the heart of Charlotte. Résultats Google Recherche d'images correspondant à.