From the Mouth of a Gentrifier | Makenna Marshall | TEDxPhillipsAcademyAndover 

As a citizen of Bostonia, the second most gentrified city in the country. It is not about connection, it is about students from other states coming in to the city and moving poorer people out. So they can get to work or college quicker.

Where gentrification is concerned displacement of the lower income residents Is not unintentional, it's part and parcel of the process itself.

Gentrification is simply a huge tax grab without increasing taxes. Density, higher home prices, are higher tax revenues. The municipalities encourage this

You can’t have taxes and home prices rise proportionately. High taxes are do to areas with little industry, while areas with high housing prices have lower taxes. Why ? because wages , supply /demand and interest rates determine prices. Housing prices and taxes are Inversely proportional for those reasons. So actually areas being gentrificated see a flatting or reduction in property taxes .

When i thought she was going to end with a solid solution or point to dialog... nope. It ended with, "I'm privileged and I have inner struggles." Smh...

The focus on cost of living seems to be a key narrative in this and other gentrification pieces I have watched. The truth is that cost go up everywhere... even the burbs that she spoke of. People get squeezed out of their suburban homes all the time, there is no shield from foreclosures or rent increases in those picket fenced neighbourhoods she speaks of. Whether by rising costs of taxation, utilities, or escalating property values it can happy in any neighbourhood. People make adjustments. They don't have as many kids, they don't drive as nice of a car, they take fewer vacations and eat out less. When you can no longer afford to live somewhere, you either find a way to afford it, or you move. Same with any neighbourhood.

Gentrification is really a very serious issue indeed. I think, there should be properties set for sale and the rest only for rent with pricing protection from the government. otherwise there should be a way out for the "replaced" people to get some other "replacement area.

It’s simple. Own your property. You can’t get pushed out if you own it.

Oh, but by the way, some of us don't WANT to live in mixed-income housing developments.

Yeah... The HORROR of someone wanting to BUY(not rent) property where its cheap, and wanting to start a business so that THEIR family can prosper! The NERVE of them risking life, and limb trying to make money in those high crime areas, and maybe bringing JOBS to underdeveloped ghettos! How DARE you bring the property values up! I say How DARE you!!!

Interesting solution. Urbanize the suburbs

If gentrification is caused by working class people who are unhappy with the suburbs because of a social disconnect and choose to move into the city to be closer together and feel like they live in a social environment then how can we deny that to those people. Telling someone they shouldn't move somewhere because they work to hard and would force other people to have to work harder is worse to me than forcing people who let a neighborhood rot stay there......Probably wrong in someone else's eyes but just my thoughts.

Not only rents go up but also property taxes go up.and than the owners can't pay there taxes because it's so high that there force to sell there homes. That they lived for decades .to rich people. That want to save a buck.or to relastate investors.

The truth is not the moving, its the market reaction....So the point is what regulation can be applied to regenerate areas with 'mild' increase rather than high that short term attractive gains would attract quick return investors, or do local authorities front the money over long term and attract business to supply money for people to earn then consume (but still keeping housing out of investment)? Do we actually try and take housing out of investment portfolio's? Again all cause and effect, so we need some kind of 1980's cold war games to play out the various scenarios....my pennies worth...

That's right move to the suburbs. Build inclusive New Urbanist communities in the suburbs not in the city. Maintaining sprawl is absolutely great for the environment and community mental health.

That was excellent my sister

Great job.

The idea that people who are “privileged” need to cater to the people who are marginalized is getting old. I actually want to live in a society where a woman will fail if she chooses to have children she cannot afford to raise because she has no marketable skills with which she can provide for them. I want to live in a society where the degree of difficulty a man faces when he looks for a job grows in proportion to the number of felony convictions he has on his record. I want to live in this type of society because it’s a society that has chosen to allocate its resources to more productive projects, rather than choosing to invest in a way that prevents people from suffering the consequences of their bad decisions. While I take no pleasure in either deserved and undeserved human suffering, I cannot tolerate seeing a society throwing good money after bad investing in people who will never become productive. If the speaker wants to have important conversations about people who are not capable of finding a new apartment to rent when they get priced out of the housing market, she should be prepared to hear that a social safety net that is strong enough to save these people may not be worth the cost of maintenance.

This could’ve been an email

I love this

You are correct when you look at this as economic class, Race is not always the same as class. Those like Spike Lee (who assumes white people must be wealthy). White people should have the right to live anywhere they want to.

A dollar stay in the hood 18 hours in white hoods it stays for days. Why it never stay up in ours

What is more important to address is the root cause of the issue of people in a poor / ghetto community staying poor and getting in trouble and try to help them become less poor. >>> education about society, economics, career opportunities, training, personal finance as well as seeing role models, as well as systems with right incentives (so it actually makes more economical sense to work and achieve vs staying poor, giving birth to kids, and getting section 8 and food stamps - if one makes more money and puts less effort by not working and having lots of children then that is what most people will keep doing if they are rational). - ideally there should be free such educational programs for low income folks (especially for kids) in those areas so most of the kids learn the right mindset from young age and can actually grow up and be a bit more successful..

The supply will create the demand... good luck with that.

Virtue Signaling Defined Allow me to summarize: “Look what a good person I am.” Maybe she should consider a different idea. That for the families languishing in deep, intractable, intergenerational inner city poverty ANY change would be an improvement. So they’re forced to move from the old, rotting crime-ridden Harlem that they knew to a middle-sized and cheaper city in North Carolina or Texas that they don’t know? Boo hoo. Sounds about like the best thing that could have ever happened to those kids.

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Cognitive Dissonance....is the hurdle we all need to get over...its a high one..well done Makenna Marshall, though Trump is hurdle thats a bit too high for me at least.....

If you can’t afford to live somewhere don’t blame it on the government. Don’t blame it on race. Don’t blame it on property owners. When your land and the people around you are becoming better and increasing and you can’t afford to be on the same page then find a new place to meet your standards. That’s life. Learn to move on or somehow move up.

Your not a gentrifier tho. Look at you.

Yawn!

Is that HAIR on her chest???

nice pimples