In the last 5 years or so, Portnald and Seattle have been going through a phase of gentrification in "poorer" neighborhoods. IN Seattle, housing projects such as Holly Park and Highpoint, have been transformed into neighborhoods that are middle class. Seattles Central District, arguelby the "blackest" neighborhood in Seattle with the highest percentage of African American concentrated neighborhoods, is now over 50% Caucasian as of the end of 2006, including having a Starbucks and planted flowers on the side of newly erected condos.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800605.html
My question to everyone is, what are the pros and cons of gentrification? If your neighborhood was going through such a process, would you aprove? If not, what would you do to protest or stop it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/18/AR2006061800605.html
My question to everyone is, what are the pros and cons of gentrification? If your neighborhood was going through such a process, would you aprove? If not, what would you do to protest or stop it?