Shot, edited, and produced by Adrian Marcano. This video shows many of the changes occurring in Brooklyn and offers critique from young people who grew up and witnessed the changes happening in Brooklyn.
Its not only Brooklyn gentrification is creeping up the Hudson. Idk where we gonna go but wherever we end up we have to take better care of our neighborhoods.
Barry Goldwater You must be a dense sub-human neanderthal. You state "if white people didn't buy your shit you'd starve," after I stated "buy black," signifying that you agree. In that case, tell your neanderthal friends to buy more.
i think the areas to buy are balitmore, chicago, fergueson, detroit ... eventually everything will gentrify - you got to buy before gentrification happens and the area has a high crime rate - if its close to downtown, it will usually gentrify - buy low, sell high
Stupid. Gentrification is a shitty ghetto full of section 8 welfare leaches getting turned into an actual livable neighborhood. These losers deserve to get displaced. Gentrification affects lazy uneducated assholes who typically live off government housing and welfare. Work hard and smart like the people improving these neighborhoods and maybe you can live like an actual human one day.
They aren't even self awareir. I'm a white person excited about diverse areas in Berlin, Germany. But I AIN'T gonna move into anywhere there. It is treason on the city and the people of the areas.
Were not moving in, we're moving BACK in. I'm returning to the same neighborhood my father grew up in. Blacks happen to live there now, but my grandparents & parents are from there as well.
@@niccoarcadia4179 are you working class or beorgious? And admit you're the minority, most are yuppies and hipsters who have no tie to the big city whatsoever
@@PodcastCentral333 My parents had owned a diner/restaurant in Park Slope. My fathers family had a apartment above the diner and when the neighborhood changed to violence& drugs they sold out & moved. Now we've moved back. My kids will attend same schools that their grandfather attended.
I love this video. These are really well educated people regarding this subject, and it’s sad to see them get swept up in a wave of gentrification and displacement that is taking so many other people and families like them. I support.
I was born in Brooklyn. Back in the sixties the demographics were mixed with different cultures. The ONLY difference was the economical status was the same. In other words all families were making about the same income...They were a few jewish doctors, who may had had a little more capital. But pretty much the income of families were equally matched. The difference now with the influx of "gentrification" is that the original income of the community is being pushed out by the higher income of families with more capital to spend thus the community of the culture changes. This is where you hold your electoral officials in the community accountable.
Agreed!! I grew up in Park Slope 2 blocks from Grand Army Plaza, which now you have to rich to afford to live in. Most of the people we knew did make the same income and worked decent jobs. My family moved out in the mid 70's to Gravesend near Kings Highway due to Park Slope becoming like a war zone. My mom was mugged in broad daylight on Union Street, beaten and robbed. My brother & his friends were jumped and beaten a number of times by blacks when they were on their way home from Brooklyn Tech HS. There were murders, drugs and abandoned properties all over the place so my parents moved us out. We rented the Park Slope apt. at the time but my parents bought a small house when we moved to Gravesend. My brother got married after college, I moved on as well, first had an apt. in Brighton Beach when I finished HS, worked, etc. Later on moved to Queens in the mid 80s when I got married. Fast forward 10 years, my dad passed in 1993, mom stayed in house for a few years but retired and sold the house but didn't get much because it was in disrepair and she had taken out a 2nd mortgage, but it was enough for her to move back to Park Slope and rent an apt. in a friends 3 family house on 15th Street between 5th & 6th Avenues (they gave her a discount). By that time (late 90's) Park Slope was gentrifying and the area was much safer than it had been when we moved out. I recently found out through a real estate broker that our old apt. in Park Slope is still a rental and it was a 3 bedroom which my parents paid around $80 a month for in the 70's. The rent is now $4,500.00 a month!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm sure the apt. has been renovated but that's a shitload of money for a rental. It was also a walk up!! 4 story pre war building so it had no elevator.
invest in your neighborhood and become a homeowner that way you have more staying power. next if your property value rises and you can't afford the taxes you can sell the property for a hefty profit. this is really the only way your can be moved.
Nicholas Jasmine and buy a nice house twice as big and with an acrenof land in the forest. I did that, i sold a house in san francisco near down town for 8 million when it cost my granparents 125 thousand to build 50 years ago. I moved to texas. I have millions in the bank now and a very well paying job.
Homeownership will not save you. In Brooklyn, many people who refused to sell got slapped with outrageous water bills and tax bills that they couldn't pay. Also, take into account illegal foreclosures. If they can't use fabricated bills they will enforce eminent domain policies. If the government can run people out of their own country, they can surely uproot people out of a neighborhood.
I'm gonna miss brooklyn, the way it was. I'm also getting pushed out and toward the south. I'm working class and there's nothing I could afford in the whole damn state. and this isn't just happening here, I've watched it happen to a number of places that used to have there own thing and their own locals. Unfortunately I have to leave the northeast all together, but I'd like to get that girl in the fatigues number before I do ;)
My block in Prospect Place, in Brooklyn is becoming more and more like hipsters and yuppies galore, and I'm beginning to think it more like Mulberry St. in San Francisco, and Portland, Oregon moving into the East Coast of Brooklyn, NY.
I don't think of these people as "yuppies" or "hipsters." I know folks call them that. Yuppies were from the 80s, young urban professionals and very corporate. Hipsters were even earlier and at least had some idea of culture to them even if they were posers. I call these folks the eatery crowd because they basically create places to sit and eat and gather that way but are thin on any other type of communal activities or vibe.
@@benjaminsmith2287 I agree. I was a white (Italian) artist musician who grew up working class/middle class. I moved to NY and other cities and lived in many "bad" neighborhoods but LIKED them. So did many of my creative friends. I ate rice and beans and caribbean food etc. in Crown Heights and was glad it was there. That's partly why I moved to NYC. I hated seeing "whiter" people than me moving into hoods and demanding yoga places, wine stores and turning bodegas into health food stores. That ain't Brooklyn. I went to Pratt starting in 1987. I liked being part of a neighborhood - not bending it to suit some different ideals.
Born in and raised in crown heights Brooklyn lived there for 18 years and then our rent got to high so me, my brothers and sisters and mom had to move to castle hill Bronx
Yes Brooklyn used to be soooo hip and fresh. Now even the Bronx is different... There used to be a lot more black Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Italian, & 2nd generation Jamaicans and some Jewish people from a long time ago. I see a lot of them gone in the Bronx and now other fresh off the boat immigrants are there now,,,, the vibe is sooo different now,,, its not the same boogie down fresh vibe that it used to be... I miss the old NYC a lot
@@PodcastCentral333 not only hipsters, but a whole new set of immigrants that weren't as dominant before... it's a sanctuary city now.... very different
yeah im jewish and my great-grandmother was raised in williamsburg bk way before it was cool. now i would never be able to afford willi. i live in ch when i say that people assume i live in the gentrified part because i pass for white but i dont. i could never afford that.
Speaking from the Ski Mountains of Northern Utah, I had never heard that word until 2010… and it was just a obscure word that had never heard but remembered it.
I’ve seen my grandparent’s old neighboorhood de-gentrify. Turned from a safe, well maintained, thriving part of the town to basically a ghetto in less than 30 years. Made the rent cheap tho.
think of all the aged jews and assorted senior citizens who tried to stay put when their neighborhoods turned into drug zones; fine quiet places filled with decent people and spotless streets changed into criminal hangouts with murders happening daily. then the older people were attacked, mainly as a way for gutter slime to pass their day. their quiet lives changed into a living hell horrorshow.
Spoken like a true NON Brooklynite!! They talking about gentrification but you wanna shift the conversation, this is the game your type of people play to try and make it seem like what your doing is so right but it's SO not right. Should people be thrown out of their neighborhood they have lived in for years because of an intentional rent hike to bring in a whole different demographic? It's no different than you talking about crime driving old people out of a neighborhood, this is the same thing in reverse! Just instead of guns, they using a pen to sign away zones and areas that minorities inhabit because they KNOW the property value is cheaper and it can be exploited. Then when people begin to commit crimes to try and hold on to their little piece of the neighborhood, they get thrown into slavery (jail) and end up losing their place anyway. These law-makers are savages! #ItsallAboutmoney
Cry to the federal government. They intentionally flooded black communities with guns and drugs. (Reagan's contra wars, and COINTELPRO under J. Edgar Hoover's FBI.
@@Wugyz108 you mean the drugs the government distribute only to lock up and blame the dealers. When they got the money,drugs and guns but it's not their fault my bad.
The thing that makes gentrification bad gets left out of this video. These are neighborhoods that under class and minority populations were effectively confined to via redlining during suburbanization and white flight. With no way of garnering capital to improve their neighborhoods, let alone garner capital to improve their own lives, these neighborhoods struggled and no one outside wanted to help because of the high crime rates that comes with impoverished conditions, lack of potential to profit, and the general attitudes towards these people. Now that young, white neo liberals are moving back into the city because of the job opportunities and desire to be “cultured,” commercial spaces are being bought out to be converted into boutique coffee shops, art galleries, and co-working spaces, commissioning outside artists to paint colorful murals that depict the cultural and ethnic diversity that they want to market to the neo libs. Then the rents get jacked up to remove lower income people. This is also happening in inner city neighborhoods all around downtown LA as well.
Great Documentary. . .Hey man what's the name of the song in the beginning of the movie? I'm from Chicago and looking forward to visit NY area especially Brooklyn later this fall.
Or blacks who didn't get approved since blacks don't' receive as much in loans as any other ethnicity or do they get paid equally. When the odds are stacked against a demographic its easier said than done. Of course, there are things that can be done about it... like for blacks to stop investing in white businesses and corporations. Withdrawing all their money and putting it into black banks. Building and buying black. With the amount, blacks spend every year they could not only rebuild their communities but take over other places. There's no organization within the black community and their priorities aren't straight... but that's a whole different conversation.
@@nylotus In reference to NOT getting approved for a house loan, the biggest factors are the following: steady income, good credit, and good down payment REGARDLESS of race or ethnicity. I'm a Hispanic who started working at age 16 in 1995 & will I did bad financial decisions in my late teens and early twenties I finally got it together & was able to buy a place of my own in as early as 2001. Most of my friends did the opposite and wasted it on the following: clubbing, designer clothes, jewelry, and a new car and most also ruined their credit. I never owned a new car, but managed to finish college (undergrad) without loans. I could have easily kept renting & it was really cheap in the 90s, but I knew it was gonna go up some day (but I had no idea it will get this crazy). All I am saying is feasible for a lot of people if they are RESPONSIBLE. If you look at the Chinese in Chinatown San Francisco and New York, you will learn that most of them came poor, but managed to save and own something.
nylotus well there are blacks who have bought property and are doing well. The issue is that many blacks are complaining and not competing or taking care of their own neighborhoods.
Yeah gentrification is a really complicated subject. One thing you an do to prevent is to: 1. Quit giving larger businesses tax advantages over smaller businesses, perhaps even reverse it. If you want to keep things affordable, stop encouraging more larger companies to fit into smaller areas. Beyond that, you have to be really careful. Because its actually better for more people of different economic and class backgrounds to be near each other. So you probably want some young professionals in your neighborhood, even better if you can get young people with children. That money and the expertise these people bring can be extremely valuable for economic mobility. Now a few specific policies I like are: 1. Mixed income housing: special grants for mixed housing so that low income housing is mixed in with high income housing. 2: Investing in new areas near the existing city, but outside it. That way you encourage new residents (who want to be in the area for work and cultural reasons) to move somewhere with fewer people. This can easily be done with limited time tax exemptions. Ultimately though, some people just love to live in densely populated cities or near them. And they have the money to pay whatever it costs. So at least some gentrification is going to happen if you want any social mobility. But I think it can be mitigated through some reasonable policies so that it hurts people less. At the very least we can stop ENCOURAGING its worst effects. When all else fails, move. I know that is harder if you are used to having a life and being in a community. A lot of America doesn't have a strong sense of community though, so that's kind of what you're up against.
Gentrification happens when you fail to plan. If you fail to earn a proper education then you will fail to be worthy to earn more. You will not have the education, training, and experience necessary to qualify for better paying jobs. If you fail to earn enough then you will not be able to afford to buy your home. If you do not own your home then the owner can and will evict you for any valid, legal reason. If you fail to obey the law, you can lose your job. If you fail to take care of your home, you can be evicted. If you fail to vote for the Republicans, the Democrats will work hard to make life difficult for you. Never forget that the Democrats hate you every bit as much as they ever have. If you fail to teach your children to do these things, you are not securing your future and the future of your family and neighborhood. Even if you do own your home, if you do not raise your children properly, they will be screwups and you will not have anyone worthy of inherent in the foundation that you have worked so hard for. Far too many in the black community fail to take care of business. I grew up in the hood. My parents worked hard, but many of our black neighbors did not. We succeeded. They failed.
@@michaelshultz1590 Republicans are actually the cause of this from a federal policy perspective. Cuts in education, job training, Federal funding to state & local governments etc.... Other countries such as Germany and Canada, their federal governments manage things better..
@@michaelshultz1590 Yeah, I've been to both and lived in both too. hmm, many will contest your assertions that we have more freedom than them. For a simple fact, They still have freedom to have an abortion as well as freedom to access healthcare from the poorest of their population. Germany has also more freedom to access higher education while most of us have to take loans...! The US can follow their federal policies while maintaining moderate taxation..
@@kinkiesse7736 Yes, they still have the freedom to murder their children, which means that some do not have the right to life. Healthcare is completely accessible here in the USA. Like any service, the service providers deserve to get paid. Healthcare is not a right, but rather something that you earn as part of your compensation package from your employer for working or something that you pay for yourself. Free healthcare is an oxymoron since someone has to pay. The workers in those countries pay for it with very high taxes. They lose most of their money. Having the government tax you to death is not freedom. Nobody owes you anything. You must earn a secondary education. I earned my degrees by serving in the USMC. It was part of my compensation package. Your idea of moderate taxation would never be enough. In the USA, an average of 46% of the population is not paying federal taxes. They’re not paying into that system. The people that are paying into it cannot cover the people that are not. In every country that has universal healthcare, a much lower percentage of the population are not paying in and those that are paying are paying a munch higher tax rate. It simply would never work in the USA.
Eric Heart what this person was saying was that gentrification has basically a similar or Same premise. Kicking out people who live in an area for long amounts of time give or take a couple years to centuries and living off that land they’ve gained from said people being kicked out as well as having large amounts of resources and economy. Colonization isn’t so different. I think gentrifiers and a lot of whites got much economy, I don’t see why their up in the asses of black communities.
@@kolins.4356 actually it's not the same. One was by force. Gentrification isn't at all. They go after high crime low wage areas of the city. What gets me is that they never complain about the crime but once the value goes down due to crime they complain about people coming and buying the property. Everything can not stay the ghetto for ever.
Neighborhoods change all the time. The Brooklyn my mom grew up in is not the Brooklyn these kids grew up in nor will it be the same Brooklyn in 20 years. When a neighborhood becomes more desirable to live in, prices will go up. I live in a gentrified area of DC and it's A LOT safer and nicer now than 20 years ago.
See where I live in the suburbs we got diversification happening out here. Before it was all Irish and Italians with a small Hispanic community, boiling over from Brewster. Like in elementary school you could literally county the amount of African American in the school on your hand. Now we're becoming much more diverse. Lots more Hispanics and African Americans. Its kinda cool.
As someone who was raised in Brooklyn (In Coney Island by the way), and traveled to the bad neighborhoods like Brownsville, Williamsburg, and even Bed-Stuy -- in the 90s, those were the places most people stayed away from, but each neighborhood had a distinct personality. My parents got a job in Florida, and we moved out of NYC in 2000. It's been about 12+ years since I last visited home (2005 was the last time I visited)... I plan on going back this year. To see that Brooklyn is "gentrified" is actually a great thing, and I don't want to see it change. It makes the "used to be hoods" not scary to go to anymore.
If there is a good thing about this pandemic and the economic collapse that followed, is that gentrification, for the time being, is done. A lot of these yuppies are going to lose their shirts , overpaying for a house in a neighborhood that they thought was "Trendy".
How to prevent Gentrification is by buying property in a low market. Than turning it into a community cooperative where the tenant (members) own a share of the assets.
How come some blacks in Brooklyn talk like their white? Where did they come from? Was they previously from white neighborhoods and decided to move out their parents house and move into a black neighborhood?
Its a Trade off, Redlining caused no investment in low-income neighborhoods and that was considered a problem. but if you do invest, it will cause an increase in demand, property value, and taxes and thus gentrification. In Philly there is a policy that allowed longterm homeowners to pay lower taxes to curb displacement...but then homeowners sold their houses anyway because gentrification increased the value of their homes. There are no solutions, only trade-offs - Thomas Sowell.
There really are solutions, but they will just never happen. There was a financial crash in 2008, a crash caused by bankers being rubbish at their job. What the gov do to fix it??? They bailed the bankers out!! So the rich stay rich, not because they are clever. But because the government keeps them rich. Why can't they give this free money to people in poor areas??? They won't because they are sick in the head.
Good commentary. The Brooklyn of Biggie Smalls is gone brother. This is now the Brooklyn of Vice magazine. Follow Nipsey Hussle's example. He was right. Period.
@@myradioon unfortunately they are given Carte Blanche to do as they wish. There a lot of tech companies that have started in Brooklyn . There are lots of possibilities in the outer boroughs.
@@shauncameron8390 Yeah ironic right. I saw that whole Vice thing happen in the late 90's - early aughts. They used to go to loft parties taking "do's and don'ts" pictures. Met a few of them. Never liked them. Always thought that was the real beginning of the end for NY/Brooklyn - bunch of middle class white kids from Canada selling some myth of NY and hip hop clothes back to people who were never from there.
Definitely a George Soros funded bot They’re probably much better at not getting caught and do better drugs. You hang out with a lot of white hipsters?
Son Mexicans came up on gentrification in Cali because we wasnt renting we owned no matter how nice or bad the hood, thats why Mexicans in San Jose got paid its the 1st city in the nation has a median home price of over a million. Same thing is happening in east LA while in the 80s and 90s ny minorities fell in love with and bragged about fast money but didnt own anything and called Mexicans slaves but we owned what we got now we getting paid son!
Y’all are too young to know how calamitous it was to live in NYC in the 70s and 80s. Those crime bills literally brought major crimes to a halt. Word to the rise, urban renewal aka gentrification is a God send!! I grew up in Flatbush so this video is just conjecture to me.
My people (I'm black) need to go to school and get education and that degree to gain higher paying jobs so they can compete financially and be able to pick and choose where they want to live and support themselves and their family buuut unfortunately alot of my people don't want to do what it takes to be in the same or even better position as their white or well to do counter parts and just become comfortable being poor or just making it. Money is power period!!!
The inequality in wealth caused by the different access of education, especially financial education is the more concerning issue. When you don't understand how capitalism works, it's very hard for you to become wealthy. And hence you are less likely to see how wealth is created. It's a vicious circle. Instead of blaming the "invaders", the community's own attitude towards education and wealth creation is to be reconsidered. How many times can you hear a black rapper bragging about how hard he studied in school or how disciplined he was about his savings and investment? None! But those are the very few ways to become wealthy. Instead, if the most representative figures in a community only promote how violent they are and how irresponsible they are towards money, that instills a bad role model for the young. Definitely have met hard-working, straight thinking smart individuals from all races. But the entertainment a society is consuming and the culture it's promoting definitely influence the behavior of its people.
Yes he is Black...just like me. But here's the difference...Gentrification is going to happen and nothing you can do can change that. Since that's the case, make your money so you can afford to live in that same house or apartment turned condo. That's what I'm doing. I started my own business so I can afford to live where I want to live. Yes Dan, a lot of lower income people, and especially Blacks are being displaced and that's my point...DON'T BE IN THAT LOWER INCOME. Do something about it, or suffer the consequences. Dolton just sees the positive aspects of Gentrification...lower crime, abandoned housing, and no or very little gang activity. Like Earth Wine and Fire sang...THAT'S THE WAY OF THE WORLD...so we have to either deal with it, or move to an area, where the gangs are, and the drugs and the crimes, and the murders.
Willieburg native 30 yrs-1960 thru 1991. Newspaper article once called Williamsburg, Vietnam, that’s how bad it was. Now it’s hipster capital of America and I’m so cool with that. People gotta understand, neighborhoods have cycles of change. Ethnic groups move in, stay in those neighborhoods for 20, 30, 50 years, then a new group moves in. If you don’t make an effort to purchase a house or property during your stay, I believe you have no reason to grip when the new bunch moves in and takes over (gentrification). Now, this may be a blessing in disguise, I was one of those that got pushed out of Willieburg. I relocated to Dallas Texas. I now own a beautiful home with a pool and a great job, all due to gentrification. Thank you hipsters👍🏼
This is the difference between a community minded vs. upwardly mobile mentality. At the end of the comment, it's about "I," not the community. It's expensive to own because anything happens to a property, you're responsible. Renters need protection as well. Now, neighborhoods do change and one thing black and Latinos have to ask ourselves is what's going on with the crime and littering and general decay in too many of our neighborhoods vs. others. Address that and stop that cycle. Even if an area is modest it should be safe and not filthy.
Brooklyn was all Italian, Polish and Irish and then they got forced out by gangs and drugs. Your landlord would rather have $2500 a month not $900. You can pay you can stay. If you are not taking advantage of all the money that is being made in Manhattan then you don't need to be 3 subway stops from Manhattan. Move out to NJ. That's for real.
"We are building a religion, we are building it bigger, we are widening the corridors, and adding new lanes. To resist it is useless, it is useless to resist it." - Cake, "Comfort Eagle"
NYC is very segregated, you go to Midwood that is very Jewish you can see kids walking alone way after dark because it is safe. It is always clean, tons of small and big stores and people take pride in there they live. You go to Brighton Beach or Sheepsheadbay and Russians are the same way, GREAT restaurants, clean and safe. You go to Flatbush and you can get robbed any time of the day.
Bullshyt my family came here in the 1870s n im from nyc n see the corrupt shit happening...you think this happy story of cleaning is gonna make it look good..russians are known for smuggling heroin prostitution ...ive seen it all ...you are blind individual
I don't understand gentrification. How is that possible. How are people displaced .Do landlords just not renew leases,raise rents ,and out price poor, rent stabilized renters. How is that possible. Is it racist because its just mostly white people moving in or because the landlords are Jewish or Italian or whatever else. If it were upper class Asians bringing productivity and prosperity ,is it still racist. Yes ,technically it is racist, and classist if poor neighborhoods that have a character they want to preserve and not simply a matter of the classical definition of upward mobility, Capitalism, and vibrant opportunity that we are all expected to adhere to for its Capitalist benefits. The neighborhood first and foremost has culture and identity that people are proud of and want to preserve and have adapted to. I think Manhattan still has alot of property to develop for upper class folk,no matter who they are and at the same time we need to focus on affordable housing for the poor and at risk populations in our communities. Compromise.
People who are bothered by gentrification are either intolerant or made a really bad deal with exploitative investors due to ignorance and now regret it
There is nothing fun, exciting or interesting about the gentrification of once steady communities. In fact gentrification does more to destabilize communities than stabilize them. That is because it brings together opposing groups of people that do not like each other, understand each other or respect each other. They will always remain estranged from each other, if not hostile and antagonizing to each other. The only way forward is to replace the poor people in the gentrified communities who do not own anything and have no say in what happens in those communities. Most of them are just renters or squatters with low education anyway. Let them have the most boring parts of New Jersey to live in. With gentrifiers come in new business developments and educational opportunities anyway. Plus they provide cleaner, safer communities. New York City became so quickly gentrified and uber-expensive that gentrifiers were forced to move to parts of Brooklyn to find decent homes. It became prime real estate on the market. Brooklyn will quickly follow suit. Then New Jersey. This notion that Manhattan is much older and more historical than Brooklyn is foolishness. Brooklyn has always been the more famous and noteworthy city, with its extensive network of public parks, open spaces and culturally significant institutions. Leave Manhattan to its bossy, noisy and bratty ways, teen-aged mentality, clownish skyscrapers and growing collection of rats, roaches, hustlers and scammers. Brooklyn is the truest of American cities, with over 1/4 of its citizens having their origins there. 🏘🏠🏡
Grew up in Fort Greene, in the projects. Back in the 60s and 70s, blacks and latinos flooded the projects. Crime went up, up and up. The place began to resemble a war zone, broken down cars, trash and houses crumbling into hovels. It got dangerous to walk around or even take the bus or train. All the brownstones were owned by whites, Irish and Italians. White flight happened starting in the late 60s/early 70s. I hated living in the projects and the new influx of people around who were all racist and violent. I used to have to try and make it home everyday without getting mugged, beat up, raped or killed. Now more law-abiding higher income people are moving in. I say it is a good thing. Now if they could demolish all those projects in all boroughs, maybe the neighborhood would be almost totally safe. And Spike Lee and his family MOVED TO BROOKLYN IN 1967 FROM ATLANTA. He complains about people doing the same fucking thing his family did. They bought a brownstone for $40,000. Spike is NOT a Brooklynite but a southerner who moved to Brooklyn. If you dislike gentrification so much, MOVE the hell out. It will be a better place without most of you anyway.
This is a simplistic and foolish assessment. Richard Rothstein in his book The Color of Law discusses how residential segregation was government policy. Rather, he argues, government policy at the time was to designate racial boundaries so that blacks and whites would not live near each other. These policies were so profound that they still determine the racial landscape today. In the 1950s, federal government again reinforced racial segregation via the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) which was designed to move white families out of the urban centres into the suburbs. This was the epoch of the stereotypical 1950s housing idyll, yet it had an explicit racial basis. In the 1950s, federal government again reinforced racial segregation via the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), established in 1934, by not insure mortgages in areas near to African-Americans, ‘foreign-born’ people and poor whites. This policy was known as ‘Redlining’, and contributed to white families moving out of the urban centres into the suburbs. Then came the epoch of the stereotypical 1950s housing idyll, yet it had an explicit racial basis. Thousands of homes would be built in suburbs and even though the US was not a suburban country at the time and the very idea at the time was seen as a waste, yet developers gained support from the FHA after submitting their plans, architectural designs and street plans for such suburban subdivisions - yet with the express proviso that such accommodation would not be sold to an African-American as required by the FHA. The FHA even required developers such as Levitt in New York, to place a clause in the deed of every home prohibiting resale or rental to African-Americans. African-Americans were therefore explicitly prohibited from moving into such homes even though they could have easily afforded those homes, not that they did not want to reside in those areas. Those homes at the time were sold for between $8-10,000 and are now worth anywhere between $300-700,000. The white families over subsequent generations gained hundreds of thousands in equity, which would be used for their children’s education, health care, periods of financial difficulty and, which is the issue here, the funds to then later return to urban centres and purchase properties from renters and local municipalities African-Americans did not accumulate such wealth as a result of this federal subsidy. So today African-American incomes are about 60% of those of white-American incomes, and African-American wealth is 10% of white-American wealth. This therefore was due to government housing policy.
So you saw this coming?? Sounds like they were too busy partying, instead of building up or fixing their property. Earning and acquiring assets. You conform and let gangs rule over your community.
Gentrification is such an old subject and I don't know why Black people keep talking about it. If you cannot afford to live in NY, move out. I don't know why Black people want to stay in NY, when they can move South where life is much more promising.
certain black people don't like it - many do like it, especially the people who worked hard and bought their homes when the area was poor and crime riddled - there all rich, they love it
Jakierria Williams No area of the US is more refined racism than the New England states particularly NYC. Really "stop and frisk" program, that's total slave patrols and nazism. Absolute police state in nyc. You can't even own firearms in nyc.
This is a simplistic and foolish assessment. Richard Rothstein in his book The Color of Law discusses how residential segregation was government policy. Rather, he argues, government policy at the time was to designate racial boundaries so that blacks and whites would not live near each other. These policies were so profound that they still determine the racial landscape today. In the 1950s, federal government again reinforced racial segregation via the Federal Housing Administration (FHA) which was designed to move white families out of the urban centres into the suburbs. This was the epoch of the stereotypical 1950s housing idyll, yet it had an explicit racial basis. In the 1950s, federal government again reinforced racial segregation via the Federal Housing Administration (FHA), established in 1934, by not insure mortgages in areas near to African-Americans, ‘foreign-born’ people and poor whites. This policy was known as ‘Redlining’, and contributed to white families moving out of the urban centres into the suburbs. Then came the epoch of the stereotypical 1950s housing idyll, yet it had an explicit racial basis. Thousands of homes would be built in suburbs and even though the US was not a suburban country at the time and the very idea at the time was seen as a waste, yet developers gained support from the FHA after submitting their plans, architectural designs and street plans for such suburban subdivisions - yet with the express proviso that such accommodation would not be sold to an African-American as required by the FHA. The FHA even required developers such as Levitt in New York, to place a clause in the deed of every home prohibiting resale or rental to African-Americans. African-Americans were therefore explicitly prohibited from moving into such homes even though they could have easily afforded those homes, not that they did not want to reside in those areas. Those homes at the time were sold for between $8-10,000 and are now worth anywhere between $300-700,000. The white families over subsequent generations gained hundreds of thousands in equity, which would be used for their children’s education, health care, periods of financial difficulty and, which is the issue here, the funds to then later return to urban centres and purchase properties from renters and local municipalities African-Americans did not accumulate such wealth as a result of this federal subsidy. So today African-American incomes are about 60% of those of white-American incomes, and African-American wealth is 10% of white-American wealth. This therefore was due to government housing policy.
@@davyjones-locker979 I agree that residential segregation used to be dejure and that those policies still affect us today. I think the white flight was due more to personal desire than federal policy. I don’t think the federal government should be in the business of insuring mortgages. They don’t insure mine and they did not insure my parent’s or my grandparent’s mortgages. Redlining was more a policy of privately owned banks than the government. The US has always been a country filled with people who want to move away from cities for a variety of reasons, space being the most important one. Developers get their permission to build from local government not the FHA. Almost no one can “easily afford” to buy a home. Just because homes were $10,000 then and $700,000 now does not mean it was “easy” then to borrow $10,000. Remember the effects of inflation. White families gained equity, but they paid for it through the cost of upkeep and taxes despite any mortgages deductions. Home ownership can also be a financial burden. African-American income and wealth are lower than white-Americans for a variety of reasons mostly having to do with unwed motherhood, divorce and crime, less so to government housing policy. None of this change the fact that, white or black, if you are a renter you are living in someone else’s house. You started your post by calling my assertion “simplistic and foolish.” You can say what you want but I’m the sensitive type so anymore insults like that will bring my part of this discussion to a close.
@@glennwatson3313 Fair enough, please accept my humble apologies. However, I think you should read, or listen on RU-vid, Richard Rothstein. As African-Americans were, as he outlines, placed at an initial disadvantage in terms of housing due to FHA loans, the 1943 Housing Act, banks expressly not loaning to African-Americans and the federal government telling property developers to include provisos and conditions that they should not lease or sell to blacks. This had a huge impact. Denial of this fact will not do one any favours my dear fellow.
You people had all this time to fix up the property and make it livable instead you allowed drugs, prostitution, and murders happen under your watch. Despicable. No good businesses. Nothing.
