Inglewood: a Gentrifying City 

And Harlem

@Crusader Knght Black people were there already for centuries before white immigrants.

White Boy - do you have 🐶🧠?

@moe Games definitely not safe u sound dumb

U mean they doing the same thing in Brooklyn, Brooklyn still Brooklyn on my side, u probably live next to hipsters

You must not be a property owner. Inglewood is up to something good.

Be tolerant

@@GGIC. nothing good about property taxes going up

@Gary Hunter you are completely right. Let's RECALL MAYOR BUTTS.

@@GGIC. exactly the people who live there are getting pushed out all you care about is money and not people

I was born at Centinela; my brother at Daniel Freeman. I still attend St. John's on Sundays for Mass once in awhile.

RatFinkDirty Really? It’s still a beautiful church

@@PalmSpringsCindy They changed the walls behind the altar with paintings, strange art but nice.

Very cool story... I grew up in East LA in the 70’s and I feel the same way. “Alleys”haha we had em too. Great short cuts.

I was born at Centinela and lived there as a child early 90s off Inglewood Ave & Arbor Vitae. . I have few, but good memories from that place. We ride bikes and go to the park. Moved up north in 93. Havent been back since. .

I'm from Inglewood too, and remember when there was a Century Drive-In on Century Blvd. No Home Depot, No Costco, no La Super.

That's when Inglewood was good

Charlotte Manigo correction, that’s when it was ghetto. Level up y’all.

@@GGIC. Man, you sound ignorant

@@generationxer8153 I’m Hispanic so don’t hit me with that as if I don’t know any better. Gentrification is positive for actual long term members of a community like property owners.

That’s what they want. The whole point of the government putting people in hoods was so no one could have shit. Once they saw people talented people in the hood they started doing this

Nah they just want black out and the brown people are the ones taking them out 🤷🤷

@@georgehudson5019 EXACTLY

Seriously, the neighborhood is improving. Pot holes are finally getting fixed.

G R one word. OWNERSHIP. That is the way you stop gentrification. If the families that have been theowner generations, how come they never became owners?

I am an owner, and to be honest most of the people who are moving in are middle class minoritys ie black and Hispanic. This is a good thing folks yes it's displacing the poor but it's also getting rid of all the people that gave Inglewood such a bad name. Don't you want to see a city full of prosperous minoritys.

I agree but sometimes the opportunity to buy was not presented to all , and we have to be considerate of that, displacement is wrong ... some of the new investments parks , schools, stadiums we will enjoy but keep in mind they are not intended for people of color to enjoy at least not long term , it’s only a matter of time ...

I get the point you're making about safety ...However, home owners may possibly face the same financial impact that the rentere are faced with, once their property taxes begin to skyrocket.

@@GR-um3hm So poor people have been stereotyped as being criminals??....Over the years, politicians and other college educated white-collar individuals have proven otherwise. People of all races, economic and religious backgrounds can learn from this gentrification and covid-19 craziness....As you can see, no one is guaranteed life tomorrow nor is today's success a guarantee for tomorrow. If I were you, I would humble myself because the very poor people and ptsd Veterans that you look down on, may very well be the very ones you may need to look up to some day.

That's because everyone getting pushed out of California sees Colorado as a cold-climate California, and I honestly think city developers understand that and are building Denver to cater to Californians.

@@Turtle_Legs can confirm this is true as a colofornian

It already happened

My homegirl from Inglewood moved to hotlanta

It's still affordable AF down there lol Yall don't know what expensive is. I feel you though.

Any city metro area that has good economics and is growing is going to attract people from all over, not just from Cali or New York. It's in city's all over the west, southwest in into parts of the south. Plenty of that happening in the major city metros in Texas for the past 20 years, but you see less of that occuring in states like Alabama,Mississippi and Louisiana. I happen to know a few people leaving Atlanta for the crime and traffic relocating to Dallas.

No one from California is moving the dirty ass Atlanta

Too bad you guys lost a NHL team twice, especially when it’s relocated to 🇨🇦

200k back in '12 seems a tad low to me

exactly my dad got a 2.7k sqft home with an acre property right off the freeway in phoenix arizona by the cardinals stadium for 280k now it’s 610k

Yup. When inglewood was first built it looked like a postcard. Decades later it looked like a refugee camp. Now it is becoming really nice again. The first kid should stop complaining and maybe paint his house. Preferably not mint green.

$200K back in 2012 was too low for Inglewood it was more like $400K even during that recession. Today it's in excess of $600K. I know this because I've owned property there since the late 1990s. Inglewood is a majority minority city, but it is also a city of solid middle and working class black and latino residents who have owed their homes for years. They city has always encouraged home ownership and property improvement which keep the neighborhood values up. The city also has plenty of healthy retail and banking and the city is home to many small and minority owned businesses. Yeah it's nice that some of the more typical food chains like Starbucks, Jamba Juice, 5 Guys, Chipotle have planted stores in our city, but that won't stop community minded residents like me from patronizing our local soul food, fish-fry, Mexican food and pandarias any time soon. It's okay if some parts of the city cater to westside tastes as long as the city can maintain some of its cultural diversity. The opening of an over priced, trendy yogurt shop does not make any significant difference in the lives of most Inglewood residents. We don't really care. We mostly care about the loss of a small family run business that was a part of the community and that gave back to it.

So true. Even without the stadium development Inglewood has always had pretty stable, well kept neighborhoods that have steadily increased in value. The city has had a lot of retail business doing well. It's not like the stadium rushed in and saved some dying community. It's just attracted a lot of speculators trying to make a buck. I'm not against progress, but I'll always choose diversity both ethnic and income wise and a mom & pop small business Mexican food or fish fry place over an over priced, over hyped gourmet yogurt shop any day.

I remember Buggin’ Out from “Do The Right Thing” scold white boy for owning a brownstone house in Bed-Stuy

Property owners welcome the change. Gentrification is good for the community. Renters don’t have a right to other people’s property.

@@GGIC. Gentifrication is never good. Especially when it displaces those who aren't rich

@@generationxer8153 The question is if it is fair. A community should have the right to improve and become a desirable location to live making the area more expensive. Simple supply and demand.

When you’re poor the barrio is all you can afford and all you know. We shouldn’t have to leave home

@@diabloakland nah, you can pursue better opportunities elsewhere, that is if you have the desire to better your life of course. Otherwise stay on the same spot

@@demayoexperience6646 You pick up and leave your home then, put yourself in their shoes. People want stability for their families, they don't want to be kicked out of their communities

When was Inglewood ever considered an "old poor barrio". I know in the 70s and 80s black folks left Watts and South Central to live in Inglewood for a a stable middle class environment.

Home is home even if its ghetto when its all you know you get attached

During that time Inglewood had restricted covenants, the government wouldn't even let black veteran purchase property in those areas. People should educated themselves on the history of wealth transfers, when blacks were allowed to buy into those areas, when and why white flight occurred, the Watts riots. The history may be an eye opener as why there are various opinions and how economic instability is still happening, many blacks neighborhoods were deliberately government sponsored failures by design.

Zillow is a problem! They're purposely raising the cost for people

@@mrkilo-g8794 zillow is a just a house listing website, they have nothing to do with price increases.

@@jackpanozzo6004 yes it does

@@mrkilo-g8794 alright then explain to me how Zillow is a factor in housing price increases. I’m interested to learn more.

That’s good 👍

@@C1K450 I don’t mind the diversity at all, but most people living in low income communities won’t be able to buy a home. This will lead to more apartment complexes and people simply moving to another state. Heck even living in a household with multiple salaries is complicated.

Black****

True story

Yes sir. I grew up in the Antelope Valley damn near my whole life. Moved as of recent, but when I lived there I came up in the Projects met brothas all over L.A. not even including my dad and his gang who came from the Silver Lake area. The Valley is going to end up becoming another Atlanta watch.

@@vanessaavila5485 yeah, black...just like you're most likely brown, but you could be any color. We get what the man is saying. It wasn't racial. Just spitting the facts with everyday informal, not disrespectful words. I don't refer to my white friends as Caucasian or my black friends as African-American. That's such a mouth full and I'm not addressing the NAACP. My friends do the same in that case and we have no problem with it.

Sooner and Later most black families will move to Africa or the Caribbean 😔

Californian progressive politicians have been doing that to themselves for a long time now. It’s about time this place gets a change and serve as a chilling reminder to not have the same voting habits when moving to red states.

Nice.

im up the street from inglewood in Westmont and when they tried to gentrify it but they are scared. We play our music loud and do donuts over here lol

@@harrydaloc9112 You need to grow up.

@@RatFinkDirty you need to stfu talking to me

@@harrydaloc9112 I hope your Avatar isn't really you!

Hope you found a “safe” white place to live I live near Beverly Hills and all the white homeless are terrifying I’m talking straight demonic!!!!!!

I def see here in minneapolis

No, MY city. I pay property taxes, you probably don't.

@@RatFinkDirty you want a high five and a cookie or sum?

@@5turkeystringz916 No, thank you.

My pops told me this story once while in prison. He said this lifer would say "We're fighting for blocks and streets we don't even own. The government owns it." Brothas die for a place that isn't even there's. Foolish is what it is. I'm glad I'm out the streets I'll never go back.

@@5turkeystringz916 sorry brother but your mentality needs to improve why would you what to live all ghetto?

Why does progress have to occur only when there is economic interest from non black and brown people. That is the issue. The state won't fund thngs that would help Inglewood when gangs or crime was an issue but now that there is the stadium and white residents buying property they are dropping everything to "Improve" the city and displace people.

It’s not progress when the 5percenters and upper middle class displace families that can’t afford homes. It’s not a good sign when a dual 150k salary is barely enough to get by. That is not progress at all. This is one of the reasons why California is losing population.

@Ash Hegde Everything else is expensive though including the bills, taxes, food, gas/electricity and clothing. People used to live comfortably with that salary, but not anymore.

@Ash Hegde It’s not about making better decisions. My parents worked all their lives in the agriculture sector because they didn’t have any type of diploma or degree. They gave up their self-growth to feed my siblings and I. It’s not about “moving out because you can’t afford or because you made bad decisions”. It’s the fucking stupid liberals overpricing everything and the low income folks have to pay. I wish California would stay with only high income earners and the 5percenters to see who the hell cooks their food, harvests their crops, cleans the streets, and who builds their “beautiful homes”. I speak for people that couldn’t make it not because of their decisions, but because they gave up their self-growth for the future of their kids. I don’t think you will understand, but I don’t care. Thankfully my 3 singling and I all have college degrees with great careers, but that doesn’t mean we forget where we came from. I won’t step over people that worked all their lives to give opportunities to their children. Real men understand that it’s not simply about “making better decisions”. Get your mind straight dude you are simply someone that believes he/she is better than others.

@Ash Hegde I don’t believe I am better, but I am definitely better than you. I don’t have any kids 😂, I am 29 and single thank god. You are just the type of person to think about yourself and your well-being without disregarding those that built the country . The same type of person to die alone and have everyone just reach out to you because of what you offer them. Sad life to live 😢

So you rather live in a crime ridden hood than pay a bit more in rent?

when white people move out its white flight and racist. When they come back and improve the neighborhood then its racist.

@@bohrcyber1175 exactly

When white people move in there catered to when it’s minorities were giving less resources no jobs poor housing conditions .

You have a peanut brain if you can’t see the whole picture Jesus

And kick all the low clad people out I hate those people

It won't, it will just move them

For real, the neighborhood is finally looking up. Good stuff.

No they moved to Texas and Atlanta ect...I'm still out here but im moving soon

@@harrydaloc9112 lol visit Hemet and u will bump in to all your cuzzins

@@rolandochavez8591 Iol I rather visit TJ again to meet some of your female cousins for $60

@@harrydaloc9112 lol

It is ETC! Not ECT!!! Maybe taking notes in elementary school English could have helped you succeed instead of playing victim .

Me too!

You should've been moved to Inglewood prior to the gentrification crap

@@generationx-man6539 lol nah they would’ve been Swiss cheese 😂

Yeah cus it's much better having a bunch of thugs in the neighborhood right? GTFOH literally

It's half Black half Latino

Shall this white gal tell YOU the story of how *I* watched my Inglewood get taken down by crime? I've got stories about what happened to me that would make your skin crawl.

I wanna know Both of your stories

@@RatFinkDirty nobody cares sir

The same people that ruined this city are the same people crying about gentrification. Usually broke as ignorant people!

But where are those with lower incomes suppose to go?

@@pooppt3936 To states with predominantly lower incomes where people can actually live off of those low incomes such as Oregon, Nevada and Arizona. There are plenty of other states as well where homes cost 30k to 100k. You can pretty much afford that working at an entry level job.

@@Law19157 Dude don’t be ignorant lol. A 30k is gonna buy you a house in either the hood, or in the middle of nowhere 10 miles from the store. I can’t believe you said that you sound extremely naive

@@IIOctaneII Ingelwood was the hood so what are you talking about? these people lived here previously but another hood is a problem all of sudden? smh

@@C1K450 Wow, you made a lot of racist statements.

Hispanics and latinos are 2 different races

Yea cuase Hispanics and black people weren’t allowed or outcasted back in those times. Did you not know that?

Such of surface way of looking at it

@@lastlvl I'm a realist

The higher the property value the higher it costs to obtain that property. People want hood prices with suburban amenities. They would curse you out if you put a cap on there salary but have no problem putting it on others.

Its good news for property owners. But its bad news for the low income renters and tenants. They get evicted or displaced.

@@rooseveltmasoniii7930 damn straight

@@mountainous_port they don't have to live in California there are 49 other states to live in

@@timmensch3601 u live in Inglewood but you not from Inglewood

It’s not about the place getting a facelift it’s just damn you lived here and payed taxes for years living through the city when it was trash then it gets a facelift and now your thrown to the side. It’s all about city showing they care for the ones when they was a popular city .

Imagine this your momma has a house and the city doesn't want her tax money anymore, the city makes a deal with an apartment complex to buy your house specially the lot, they will force you to give up the land and gave you crumble change for it knowing they're going to bank on it

@@mrkilo-g8794 they forced my mom out of her apartments to build a parking garage . they gave her $12,000 toward a down payment on a house .

@@717tech5 some people don’t wanna do that take the dodger stadium for example they chose that spot because Hispanics lived there and yes they offered money but when they refused they took them out there houses by force