@@TartarianTopG Well poor people are displaced in favour of rich people. The poor people still have the same problems and gentrification adds to this when they're displaced, their communities are broken up and lose close valuable support.
@@coolbreez773 Even if this is true, moving money and businesses from one city to another still benefits the recipient city right? So in the context of a single city, gentrification does basically create wealth.
So the goal is to work towards not being poor anymore instead of embracing it. Face it, nobody likes to be poor. It's not fun. Instead of complaining about being poor, do something about it, whatever it takes, legally that is.
@@wturner777 most poor people work the most hours in our country. Idk if you been poor but some of my family members been and let me tell you. If you think there poor cuz there not working hard enough then you thought wrong. They are there because our country has no care for poor people. We act like we care by saying you have welfare and public housing but those programs are underfunded to heck of it. And unemployment check barley helps. Schools in poor areas don't teach well at all and of you want a better education if you're poor it dam near impossible to get it without putting yourself in a mountain of debt that u can't pay back for 30-40 years after.
No, you mean 4 of those areas he named were historically Native American. Austin, Denver, Phoenix,San Francisco were Mexican & White Boston was irish New York was Italian Minneapolis was German Miami is CUban. THe only ones you had were DC and NO. Like he said when gringos move into the inner city , it's called 'gentrification' but when hip hop moves into Austin, Seattle, Minneapolis ... it's called 'diver5ity' , which turns into flight. . And South Central was originally a Jewish neighberhood then it turned ghetto and now the Salvadorians are taking it over.
@@robroux5059 Anglos and Blacks were in Miami before Cubanos. NY was not Italian. Italians didn't start en masse coming till early 19th century. Few mexicans in denver, sf historically.
You live in a city all your life, work hard, buy a home, manage to pay off a 30 year mortgage and have finally saved enough to retire comfortably. Then they gentrify your neighborhood. Because the homes are worth more the taxes go insanely high. You can sell for a decent amount now, but where are you going to live? You're completely priced out of the market. Yeah that sounds awesome. This is why you see 70 year old cashiers and uber drivers.
The people in my neighborhood who benefited magnificently from gentrification sold their little houses to developers for beaucoup bucks then moved back home to the Midwest or South. I still live in my little (unbelievably valuable) house because I love Denver and love what gentrification has done to the neighborhood. Denver taxes are still very reasonable. I certainly feel for the people who are losing out though.
If you bought a home in a place that needs gentrification in the first place you already screwed up. That's on you. Also if your home's neighborhood gets gentrified you can sell the house for far higher a price and use the extra capital to move. It's a win-win.
There has to be a balance.. I work in health and human services and the hardest part of my job is finding housing for my low income housing clients. Poor people need homes too.
One part of the solution is to assist those clients who can to acquire more marketable skills ,which willlead to higher incomes incomes. Then they will have more market choices.
I am from Cincinnati and was recently on vacation in Boulder, Colorado. There was a march/protest going on when I was there about housing. As an outsider, I can't claim to know the full story, but through my own observations, I noticed that Boulder and much of the Denver metro is extremely gentrified and 90 percent of the housing looks fancy and expensive. To me it looks like there is no middle or lower class- just upper class and homeless.
Dont vote Democrats and this won't ever be a problem. I actually wonder how many democrat supporters are negatively affected by this that well end up being hypocrites and continue to vote democrat anyways
@Badass Beaver Would you still be supporting the democrats if you found out the fact that all the cities with the most most murder rates per capita and all the cities that are being destroyed by rioters are all democrat controlled
@@Psyclone500TV did you know that major cities in the country are Democratic ran. Also Democratic States rank higher and better than most republican states like healthcare and education. It just that both parties have there flaws. Also social reform is need especially in a country with high income inequality. It weird cause both sides have voters voting for thing that hurt them. Rich Democratic actively advocate for higher taxes for there pay role and power republican vote for them when none of the taxes reform would help them and still keep them poor
I live in a Gentrified city and I can tell you that black familes suffer the most. From what I have seen over the past 10 years , black families are moving out of the gentrified areas and Hispanic and Asian familes are staying. Hispanic and Asian familes tend to have multiple households living under 1 roof.
Lots of neighborhoods are turning from black to Hispanic. This is something that’s constant, change. Because most of those black neighborhoods used to be white neighborhoods before that. Change is the only constant thing.
Maybe the Asians and Hispanics have the right idea, stay in the area that is being improved and make up for higher rent by splitting it among more people.
@@chinoto1 Without Black home owners, Black tenets are less likely to be rented out to. Hispanic do the lower wage jobs for the wealth class so some are accommodated with space to live. You know it isn't Billionaires brewing your coffee.
I am in the Bay Area. There are definitely a lot of positives and negatives to gentrification. Everyone who complains about the loss of culture which is a terrible thing, don’t seem to remember the gang wars in the Mission district of SF before gentrification. Crime has definitely decreased
I say Gentrification is important to any city, it sucks that it displaces some people who have lived in the neighborhood for generations, but without it that city gets put on the fast track to becoming another Detroit.
@@itzpro5951 Sure is, but only around the Downtown area, the rest of Detroit, well... Edit: with the exception of some Detroit neighborhoods like Palmer Woods
Gentrification can be a great thing as long as it doesn't go too far. Like Nick said it raises everyones income, improves schools, lowers crime, etc. which benefits all residents no matter how long they've been there and only leads to a 5% increase in low income people moving out. However when it goes too far in cities like SF, LA, NYC even the middle class is driven out and thus leads to diminishing returns on crime, income, schools and hurts everyone but the richest.
Great for whom? Only those that are at a high enough income to take advantage of the increases in property values. For all the rest, they get dumped by the wayside.
Pushing out middle and low class buisinesses and even the jobs will do that. SF is especially bad and forces lots of people to commute from out of town making the traffic really bad. I recently look at the numbers and apparently the homeless numbers are on par with the amount of vacant houses which is quite ironic.
@@pasta9368 San Francisco is likely the #1 city in the nation guilty of gentrification, followed closely by New York with Harlem being the most notable area of current gentrification. As areas become rezoned to make space for more businesses, affordable housing decreases concurrently. Some call gentrification the new method of segregation. Others know it as the "new urban crisis."
I used to drink that koolaid but after witnessing it first hand in a smaller city, I realized gentrification only benefits the rich. Ive never seen so many homeless people. There are some parts of the city that are, 'cleaner' but now no one can afford housing anymore. Californians are directly responsible for this. I'm at a decent job and I cant even compete anymore let alone a poor hardworking American
Gentrification is not always good, usually in stablish working class neighborhoods when that occurs, many of the long time home owners have to flee cause of high property taxes. The higher the houses sell for, the higher the taxes will get.
And jogging chicks in ponytails and yoga pants. Sometimes walking dogs. Also, guys in sandals, shorts, T-shirts, and pushing strollers. Lots of breweries....
The fact that you chose the section of the strip district that meets Lawrenceville in Pittsburgh as the opening shot is pretty fitting for a video on gentrification. It’s amazing what you can do to a neighborhood when you sweep the poverty under a rug and put in some new buildings
Main problem I have with Gentrification is companies are willing to buy up the neighborhoods and restore them, but they aren't willing to help move the people that are displaced. I understand that progress must be made, but it shouldn't come at another human beings expense
So neighborhoods that have been left neglected for decades until the property values have bottomed out get back the funding so that the people who suffered through those decades are forced to move out. And that’s praise worthy 🤔.
We were accused of gentrification in Boston, when the locals were all shooting each other, robbing people, or passing out in the gutters. Sometimes you just can’t win.
Gentrification is a mixed blessing. IMO the rents and mortgages aren’t really worth it. The lower mid class and low income folks still need a place to live.
I think _gentrification_ is a part of a cities' progress. It's been going since humans decided to be sedentary and develop cities. They grow, they shrink, people move around depending on demand, etc. Even Paris went through MASSIVE gentrification during the Haussmann Era. It did tear down a lot of historical buildings from the Medieval era but Baron Haussmann built Paris as we see, love and admire today. Paris became a model for many cities around the world. Boulevards, Avenues, large squares, parks, rotondas, specifically making laws for monuments to stand out, distinct neighbourhoods, well-lit streets, etc. I just hope that the developers and the city councils also think of the poorer people who are being affected by gentrification but that's when it gets tricky :/
Another thought, I think this also lead to an increase of homelessness. People who are being pushed out and replaced don't have necessarily anywhere to go, since they are in the lower income bracket. I wonder what percentage of SF's homeless population is caused by gentrification?
8:08 the graph shows that crime was coming down significantly for years, then a year of not noting crime and then the process of decreasing crime that was before gentrification took on. It shows no impact of gentrification on crime. It only shows that something in 1997 was happening to crime.
The only way for gentrification to work properly is to institute a UBI. That way poorer citizens have the tools to participate in the gentrification process instead of becoming a victim of it.
UBI is nothing but a nice sounding pipe dream. Where is the money going to come from? Right now we are borrowing 50% of the money we are spending. You cannot print your way to prosperity. The US dollar and our economy is in the process of collapsing before our eyes. The end game and reset is near. Wealth is created by people producing, building, working and creating. Paying people to do nothing is just the opposite and is unsustainable. People have to learn there is no free lunch, we have to live within our means, the Gov't/taxpayer cannot "fix" everything and everybody, and it was never meant to. We have created a entitlement mentality monster. A host organism can only support so many parasites before it dies.
@@nan-sea3814 Yes, that is the typical response from the so called "progressives", spend other peoples money, lol. But you are nor grasping the numbers involved here. You could confiscate everything the 1% owns and that might pay the bill for a few of months, then what? We just keep coming back to basic economic fundamentals here. You can't just keep taking out without putting back in. UBI is just a fantasy for those that think you can get something for nothing. For those who have had everything given to them and don't understand that somebody has had to pay for it.
@@johnstudd4245 Excellent comment! I hope economics are, once again, reintroduced into the classrooms, so people have a better understanding of why socialism always fails.
Gentrification is a complex subject. On the surface it is a solid thing to do to improve home properties and the like. However, it also pushes out those who are already their by raising their tax rates through the roof. In response to the Obama thing, he is was trying to rectify the fact that far too many people who are trying to move up in the world the proper way from doing so. Too many areas won't take Section 8 even though it is just like cash. Do I think that every person should be able to abuse the system? f course not. However, there are people out there who have done everything they can do get and just need that little bit of help. If you wanna say they cant stay there because they have a history of not paying rent or destroying property or criminal record, that is fine. My concern is that we are zoning areas so that "those" people can't come into "our" neighborhood. And in response to Gentrification, and I know TONS of people are going jump down my throat, it is similar to how our country has treated Native Americans...you can have that land no wait, there is gold there. You can have that land, no wait, there is OIL there, you can have THAT land....we promise. We don't invest in these communities unless we can, like another person posted, set up a bunch of corporate shops and to show how affluent we are. Watch South Park handle this idea. It represents both sides. Last thing and Iw ill shut up. I have no problem trying to improve a place HOWEVER, if your intent is to force other people out of the area because you want them MORE LIKE YOU..that is a problem.
i used to work for section 8. since then; any time i've moved somewhere, one of first things i tell a prospective landlord is how to make a unit fail the section 8 pre-rental inspection. believe you me. there is valid reason nobody in their right mind wants to live with/around section 8 people. and to be fair, in the opposite direction, i don't want to live with/around elitist pod people, hipsters, and karens either. best places to live are where rush hour begins at 5-6am, and is comprised mostly of pickup trucks.
Well said Mr. Montez. It's never benefitted my people. It's been my personal experience that when these neighborhoods weren't in the best shape the city never could come up with funds to correct problems yet when people are displaced and move away, the city comes up with all types of funding...that's not right
Gentrification is nothing more than modern day apparatus to achieve segregation. It hasn't gone away, rather, simply taken on a new title. The results are exactly the same.
@Badass Beaver Im also an SF native, I would like to see the day the city finding a betterment in income equality, and homelessness. Id hopefully move away by then but would still like to see it.
san francisco 250 years ago was part of spain, if fact california , argentina , chile , the Philippians and spain were the same country and they last a few centuries together, were california has been under american rule for under 200 years, that is yesterday california is not venice.
Very interesting topic. It’s always good to learn something new even though it’s a more serious topic. Sucks about San Francisco, which is so ridiculously priced. No Mappy appearance, but.....we did get many Nick appearances!😍 And that makes me happy. 😊
@@Acadian.FrenchFry I guess we have a totally different view of what is affordable. Although compared to WF (where prices are outrageous) it is less expensive.
I've seen people deliberately limit their employment so they don't lose their stuff like section 8 and government aid. Such an easy system to abuse, and nobody is willing to admit it.
i find myself clicking like before i even watch Nick's videos now! Keep up the great work . I was suprised about New Orleans being on this list, must have been because they reached such a low point with hurricane Katrina
Super surprised Chicago, and Milwaukee aren’t on here. Wicker Park and Logan Square in Chicago used to be rougher and now they have lots of hipsters living there, and Milwaukee has the Third Ward which used to be all industrial wasteland and now is a huge bar district and also hosts Summerfest Music Fest
@@sneakerheadonlys I know Chicago’s not that bad, I live here. I’m saying though we do have lots of gentrification which is a good thing cause crime goes down
@@joejonas3684 Chicago bad on all gentrification only happening on a few parts of the city all sides have shootings Chicago had high car jacking for 2 decades
it’s probably so high because rebuilding after katrina. i went down to new orleans 3 years ago, there’s still some poles and signs with water damage from katrina. insane
Gentrification isn't a bad word.... it means development, job, safety and pleasant to the senses. It's ok as long as lower income housing is also available
No everybody who lives in housing are bad people. When my parents were accept in housing was a great. People congratulate us. The reason why the housing is bad now the government started to accept everyone the druggist people who fight in the streets who orine in the elevators, dog fights anybody was accepted no requirements needed. No marriage need only to be single children without fathers and welfare.
David Gonzalez jr yes, when I was living in New York City in a housing every year that I get an increase my rent went through the roof. In 1984 I was paying 365 rent with two girls I was having struggles with 2 girls was easy.
@@JudithSanchez-ht6jn that not even true. My grandmother lives in public housing and she one of the hardest worked I every saw . 90% of all people there are nice and hard working people. It just they underfund the system so much. For example if your shower broke and you call the plumber. It take up to 3 or 2 months for them to actually come. The janitor is never there . Also the people from outside the neighborhood treat it like garbage. For example I saw someone dumb there trash there and leave.
8:20 Crime has been generally going down since the 90s. I wouldn't solely attribute that to gentrification. You can even see it going down before Katrina hit.
@Bernard Garrett no fam since the George Floyd incident crime has risen across the us I even remember a video on this channel where the narrator mentioned I believe since 2015 crime in the US has been on an uptick
San Francisco blocks of nice condos with people sleeping in front of them in the tents. U will dine at nice restaurant while a homeless poops on the sidewalk in the window in front of you, a person working two jobs as a cook can’t afford rent has to sleep in car and shower at the gym because rent is too high. This is the reality of gentrification.
I didnt realize gentrification was controversial at all. To me, I think it's very important for a city to revitalize and improve its neighborhoods. As we see more people wanting to move to the cities, the cities that will attract these new waves of people will succeed.
@64imma Well, if another country buy up where you live, view it the same way. I see banks and foreign investors are buying up single family homes in middle America. If those people get pushed into the woods, it is what it is.
@@godofthisshit now that this comment has had a year to age, I'd like to say that while I'm still not totally against gentrification, I do think it shouldn't come at the expense of taking away what might be peoples only assets. I think the government should be required to pay people twice what a homes assessed value is in order to take it for the sake of gentrification
It doesn't surprise me at all that SF is the most gentrified. Honestly as a result of so many people leaving that insanely expensive city my hometown of Santa Rosa just an hour north of it has really gone up in price too and all the new houses I see including homes rebuilt after recovering from the Tubbs Fire of 2017 are hella expensive and honestly feels like gentrification is happening here too but not for the better. There are however some places that cost way less than the California state average but even so still pricey. And I love your intro song. "Where did all my old stuff go. I can't live here cuz I'm poor." It doesn't matter that I'm white. I know this feeling.
Phoenix, AZ has seen gentrification in the Downtown area over the last twenty years. ASU built a campus there along with construction of a light rail system, Downtown has seen a renaissance. Although developers are putting up mostly luxury condos it doesn't seem to effect the residents in the area all that much. Downtown does have Roosevelt row for young people and local artists in the area. The City also managed to build Downtown's first grocery store.
Dude! You drove all the way to Detroit just for footage all the way from NC? I always figured you traveled for your day job and just got footage while out. That's dedication!! You Go.
Brilliant video Nick! As a non US person very interesting topic and I’ll learn more in the comments ! You have another 1000 subs since I commented 2 days ago! Way to go! Well deserved and really good video editing too. Yes Mappy and Co don’t belong in a video like this. See them later.
Its good and bad. My husband and I owned our first home in a now gentrified neighborhood. It cost us 60k and we sold it for 280k. It enabled both of us for the first time ever to leave unsafe low income areas. We both grew up in "bad" areas and now our kids don't have to. However, if you don't own you are just pressed out with no compensation and moved into a worse area as rents continue to rise everywhere. Its a double edged sword, but it also can benefit a lot. Its a layered situation, but it shouldn't be demonized.
Badass Beaver that’s a nice area, I had a girlfriend who lived out there and went to Washington a couple years back. She told me it was predominate Russian / Japanese.
I’m surprised that Seattle is not on this list. You need property tax incomes from gentrified neighborhoods in order to keep existing services for your city.
I know about my neighborhood that use to have Greeks and Italians some Brazilians families. Now the gentrification brought homeless, criminals, drugged and violent people from the hell. My neighborhood was safe and nice, now is same as neighborhood of Bronx, not safe, dirty and horrible
I noticed that too a lot of time it back fires and a horrible way. Just causing more homeless , drugs and crime as more people go south trying to make it. Some turn to drug to cover their pain, others turn to stealing, others turn to selling their bodies and the murder rate goes crazy as people stop caring completely.
I'm fairly certain this guy has a predisposed narrative going into all these vids and looks for data to reaffirm it after the fact. It's a fallacy to even try to attribute crime rate to one single loosely connected variable like gentrification
I live in Denver in one of the fast gentrifying neighborhoods just to the northeast of downtown. Been here a year and have seen alot. The townhouse that I purchased used to be city housing projects that were purchased and renovated by a private investor. I've seen this repeated a few times in the neighborhood in the past year. A FRENCH BRASSERIE restaurant just opened a few blocks away-I was surprised because I didn't think the demographics were "quite there yet". Right now the neighborhood appears to be 1/3 white, 1/3 black, and 1/3 Latino, with everything from housing projects to expensive new townhomes and remodels. I want to freeze the neighborhood right where it is now and stop any further gentrification. It still has a little bit of flavor while still being diverse.
It’s gonna wound up making it’s own flavor when the gentrification process is completed...a different flavor than the one that was there before it...you can’t freeze that stage for long because the two classes of people just don’t mix...it won’t stay the same...it’s not about race, it’s about class...it just happens those with money moving in are mainly whites...
I've been a resident of Denver for over 20 years (I'm under 40 years old), and I have seen Denver change in ways that make me want to cry. Sure, gentrification is making many of the neighborhoods look better, but I think it's largely to blame for the spike in homelessness in the city too. I say this because I'm one of the folks that are experiencing what I call the "gentrification push". Generally, I could be classified as middle class; although realistically my annual income is just barely above the threshold of what is considered low income. I'm currently being forced to relocate for the 3rd time in less than 2 years due to "improvements"; and I'm having a very hard time finding decent housing that I can afford anywhere in the whole greater Denver metro area. I never would've guessed that I'd be in this predicament. It's just crazy! The whole situation is a complicated mess but it makes no sense to have nice buildings if the streets these buildings sit on are lined with homeless encampments on the sidewalks.
@Los 7 It’s not about race, it’s about poor areas in urban cities. Hell’s Kitchen in NYC was a poor Irish-American neighborhood that was gentrified the same as black neighborhoods in inner cities and that’s because it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with inner city poor neighborhoods.
Jabari Standberry Listen to yourself with some logic. If a community continues to deteriorate over time the value will decrease and folks will come in and buy the houses in the area, rebuild them and sold them. You mention people not being able to afford well most law obeying citizens leave, black white whatever due to being sick and tired . They take the money and leave. Most are retired with their houses paid for so majority of them are doing fine. Again take are of your community or else. 🤷🏿♂️ would you want to continue to leave in a filthy crime ridden community?
With more young people seeking walkable, more dense and less auto-and-truck dependent urban areas expect to see more and more gentrification. All things considered, I'm very happy to see this!
Gentrification is to housing tracts what “urban renewal” was to commercial tracts in the 1960s, the American style of ethnic cleansing real estate. Notice that no black business districts are left standing, just like “urban renewal”
8:50 Cathedral in Palma de Mallorca! One of the most beautiful cathedrals and islands I’ve been been to :) Funny seeing that footage here because it’s not in the US. It’s in Spain.
You kinda touched on the long-term effects of rioting. A lot of the city neighborhoods known for poverty and crime now were booming until the riots in the 60s. It's shocking how hard it is for these places to rebuild.
I manage a loft in Rochester, NY. The city is DYING right now. I’ve never seen such human depravity on the street in my life. People passed out on the street, begging for money, public urination and defecation, and harassing women. It shouldn’t be this way. Can anyone offer some advise on how to fix this?
I live in Rochester and yes that is definitely right but start fundraisers and get sponsors to build a group home/Rehab center but push it out and be mindful of people that own there homes
ANN ARBOR MI. First, cops, teachers, nurses and other service people could live there. Now they cannot afford to and must commute from other towns. Now those other towns like Chelsea, Brighton and Saline I’ve seen dramatic skyrocketing property taxes and home prices and are becoming an affordable as well. For everyone that is wealthy enough to live in Ann Arbor, I suggest they start cleaning their own offices policing their own streets, teaching their own kids, and starting their own IVs. Nobody should have to spend two hours in traffic to go to work to help these people who don’t want “the poors “ living amongst them. Gentrification on its face can clean up a city but those cities need to find a way to House the people who keep them up and running. Good video Nick.
Hi Nick! Good Video and Subject Seems to improved area's greatly around here in Tacoma Wa It's nice to see modern buildings and transportation systems in the city, where once old brick buildings stood. Keep up the video's coming 😊😊
The cities should do more to at least help small businesses who are displaced to either a new location or help them stay in existing neighborhoods. Nothing really wrong with it as long as they’re not completely erasing established residents.
What about Philadelphia? I know that the local governmental leadership is horrible, but how did it not make the list for gentrification? I mean, I was born and raised in Kensington (the opioid/drug infested neighborhood) for 13 years, then moved away, started coming back to visit seven years later. (Family.) Within the last 12 years a lot has changed, and in the last five that I have been visiting there has been a lot of development in certain neighborhoods. I’m moving to Center City, later this month-just curious.
you're not solving anything by making neighborhoods look nice. it displaces the poor who do not have the resources or time to clean their neighborhood. to actually make better neighborhoods is to have strong mutual aid centers, & incentive less demand to conform to the economy so people have the means to help each other & their neighborhood.
@@averageboi5195 that’s life. Cities have been gentrifying since they were created, over and over. Most people living in those neighborhoods you’re describing are not the original inhabitants anyway and came from elsewhere to gentrify it’s former residents. The only thing constant in cities is change. I can’t wait for gentrification to become complete. Resurrecting old crumbled cities to their former glory and to become even better than they were before.
@@krane15 I mean there's a reason people are willing to buy 1.4 mil houses. The amount of opportunity in that city in INSANE compared to even my own city of Austin
Gentrification is a broad word. Give my an example of a gentrifier person/community. 60% of persons moving in to established neighborhoods are the LGBTQ community. 30% are empty nesters, couples over 50 years old. With no children. 5% are mixed couples. 5% are people that once lived there. Became successful. Now are nostalgia about the community to move back. For community to successfully become gentrified. There needs to some charm. ie... old buildings/homes, active artisans, and the feel of up-and-coming. Researchers show that 90% of gentrifiers are liberal people. That are okay about a diverse community as it redevelopes.
What sources do you use to track gentrification? I’m shopping for my first house in Los Angeles and need to compare Van Nuys, Highland Park, and West Adams.
Surprised Los Angeles neighborhoods didn't make you list. Echo Park, Silver lake, lots of places that have been impacted. Gentrification is ok but not mandated zoning to multiple units as being pushed in CA.
Local New Orleanian here.. it’s helped our city for the best, more diversity bringing in new restaurants and small businesses to help our community for the best. Most of all, locals being open and appreciative to newcomers, as long as they respect the locals of course 😂
what this guy thinks gentrification is - new development replacing old buildings what gentrification actually is - public policy that funds projects designed to extract poor people, specifically minorities, from their century old communities. Tax valuations and property taxes continue to go up while federal and local assistance programs continue to get cut. Historically redlining has forced minorities to stay in lower quality neighborhoods with worse schools and less infrastructure, and we later kick the minorities out when the city expands enough for the land to be desirable. There is development that doesn't gentrify, and its not an individual developers choice to "do a gentrification". It's public policy that allows and funds development that gentrifies. So they use our taxes to raise taxes, pretty much.
In most cases it’s not century old communities...more like since the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s because most of the areas getting gentrified are not redlined areas...they are areas in the city core somewhere where the real estate is valuable because of location proximity to its downtown. Nothing wrong with gentrification in my eyes...but I have money so I’m looking at it from my socioeconomic class point of view...not your point of view which is the poor one...so to me, gentrification is a good thing..,
We are facing an unprecedented issue where people are working remotely which means they can live in smaller towns and destroy those now! This must be stopped. Any poor or middle class American needs to stand against this.
Growing up in an area that got gentrified, I personally like it. Before gentrification the area is usually bad, high crime, drugs etc. Afrer gentrification the area all the sudden becomes great. So I def rather pay more to live somewhere safe instead of the dump it was before.
A lot of people bring up homelessness, but a lot of homelessness has been caused by the closing of mental health hospitals. The city I use to live in had very few homeless until they closed several of these hospitals. Then they were everywhere.
My town of Marquette hasn't really changed a lot except we have more shopping now. Places like Star Bucks, Michael's craft store, best buy, etc. So I guess that counts as gentrification a little. Most of these are out of the city limits, and we don't have high rises so it's unlikely our official population will ever change.
@@azmisunshine I was a student at NMU then too! You should see the campus now, they've rebuilt Jamrich, West science, and a whole bunch of dorms and appartments.There is another science building too I think.
Kathy Main Yes, I was super impressed with all of the renovations. Some of my profs from back then are gone now, so it was a little bitter sweet. RIP Daddy Bear. #NMUtheater 💗
The worst thing is Gentrification. I use to live in a nice, safe and cleaning neighborhood and after gentrification is violent, dirty, crowded. Can’t wait to move out.
Gentrification doesn't solve most problems it just moves the problems.
How so?
@@TartarianTopG Well poor people are displaced in favour of rich people. The poor people still have the same problems and gentrification adds to this when they're displaced, their communities are broken up and lose close valuable support.
@@coolbreez773 more tax revenue and jobs come along.
@@RocketmanRockyMatrix No gentrification moves tax revenue and jobs, the wealth is moved, not created.
@@coolbreez773 Even if this is true, moving money and businesses from one city to another still benefits the recipient city right?
So in the context of a single city, gentrification does basically create wealth.
If you are poor, Gentrification is bad for you. If you got money, Gentrification is good for you.
I got some money at the ATM, so I guess I have my answer.
@@jamesmcinnis208 lol😂
that is true
So the goal is to work towards not being poor anymore instead of embracing it. Face it, nobody likes to be poor. It's not fun. Instead of complaining about being poor, do something about it, whatever it takes, legally that is.
@@wturner777 most poor people work the most hours in our country. Idk if you been poor but some of my family members been and let me tell you. If you think there poor cuz there not working hard enough then you thought wrong. They are there because our country has no care for poor people. We act like we care by saying you have welfare and public housing but those programs are underfunded to heck of it. And unemployment check barley helps. Schools in poor areas don't teach well at all and of you want a better education if you're poor it dam near impossible to get it without putting yourself in a mountain of debt that u can't pay back for 30-40 years after.
All those areas you named were historically Black neighborhoods
Well no one wants to move to Wilkes Berry PA and live in a trailer 😅
Even the Phoenix one?
No, you mean 4 of those areas he named were historically Native American.
Austin, Denver, Phoenix,San Francisco were Mexican & White
Boston was irish
New York was Italian
Minneapolis was German
Miami is CUban.
THe only ones you had were DC and NO. Like he said when gringos move into the inner city , it's called 'gentrification' but when hip hop moves into Austin, Seattle, Minneapolis ... it's called 'diver5ity' , which turns into flight. .
And South Central was originally a Jewish neighberhood then it turned ghetto and now the Salvadorians are taking it over.
@@robroux5059 Anglos and Blacks were in Miami before Cubanos. NY was not Italian. Italians didn't start en masse coming till early 19th century. Few mexicans in denver, sf historically.
@@cnnnpc4351 Seminole(Proto-Mexicans) people were in Miami before anglos and blacks ..so....
You live in a city all your life, work hard, buy a home, manage to pay off a 30 year mortgage and have finally saved enough to retire comfortably. Then they gentrify your neighborhood. Because the homes are worth more the taxes go insanely high. You can sell for a decent amount now, but where are you going to live? You're completely priced out of the market. Yeah that sounds awesome. This is why you see 70 year old cashiers and uber drivers.
That sounds awful🙄
yeah that does suck big time.
The people in my neighborhood who benefited magnificently from gentrification sold their little houses to developers for beaucoup bucks then moved back home to the Midwest or South. I still live in my little (unbelievably valuable) house because I love Denver and love what gentrification has done to the neighborhood. Denver taxes are still very reasonable. I certainly feel for the people who are losing out though.
So true!
If you bought a home in a place that needs gentrification in the first place you already screwed up. That's on you.
Also if your home's neighborhood gets gentrified you can sell the house for far higher a price and use the extra capital to move. It's a win-win.
There has to be a balance.. I work in health and human services and the hardest part of my job is finding housing for my low income housing clients. Poor people need homes too.
One part of the solution is to assist those clients who can to acquire more marketable skills ,which willlead to higher incomes incomes. Then they will have more market choices.
@@ianandrews6890 bs...
@@ianandrews6890 that's what I do as part of my job I help them develop life skills and employment skills.
@Caleb m poor people have a culture?
@Caleb m this is exactly what people need, Thank you!!!!
I am from Cincinnati and was recently on vacation in Boulder, Colorado. There was a march/protest going on when I was there about housing. As an outsider, I can't claim to know the full story, but through my own observations, I noticed that Boulder and much of the Denver metro is extremely gentrified and 90 percent of the housing looks fancy and expensive. To me it looks like there is no middle or lower class- just upper class and homeless.
How is overtaxing properties and raising rents so that the average working person can’t afford to live there a good thing?
Dont vote Democrats and this won't ever be a problem.
I actually wonder how many democrat supporters are negatively affected by this that well end up being hypocrites and continue to vote democrat anyways
@Badass Beaver Would you still be supporting the democrats if you found out the fact that all the cities with the most most murder rates per capita and all the cities that are being destroyed by rioters are all democrat controlled
@Badass Beaver you are blind
@@Psyclone500TV did you know that major cities in the country are Democratic ran. Also Democratic States rank higher and better than most republican states like healthcare and education. It just that both parties have there flaws. Also social reform is need especially in a country with high income inequality. It weird cause both sides have voters voting for thing that hurt them. Rich Democratic actively advocate for higher taxes for there pay role and power republican vote for them when none of the taxes reform would help them and still keep them poor
It raises the value of living there for people who can afford it.
It's a good thing, just not for everyone.
I live in a Gentrified city and I can tell you that black familes suffer the most. From what I have seen over the past 10 years , black families are moving out of the gentrified areas and Hispanic and Asian familes are staying. Hispanic and Asian familes tend to have multiple households living under 1 roof.
Lots of neighborhoods are turning from black to Hispanic. This is something that’s constant, change. Because most of those black neighborhoods used to be white neighborhoods before that. Change is the only constant thing.
@@IslenoGutierrez not when it’s only happening to one group of people
@@nycblixky8530 But it’s not happening to just one group of people.
Maybe the Asians and Hispanics have the right idea, stay in the area that is being improved and make up for higher rent by splitting it among more people.
@@chinoto1 Without Black home owners, Black tenets are less likely to be rented out to. Hispanic do the lower wage jobs for the wealth class so some are accommodated with space to live. You know it isn't Billionaires brewing your coffee.
I am in the Bay Area. There are definitely a lot of positives and negatives to gentrification. Everyone who complains about the loss of culture which is a terrible thing, don’t seem to remember the gang wars in the Mission district of SF before gentrification. Crime has definitely decreased
The bay has culture?
They aren't losing culture they are gaining multiculturalism
YES BUT ARE THERE ANY THING FOR ELDERLY LOWINCOME
I wonder if the crimes disappeared or just moved somewhere else...
I say Gentrification is important to any city, it sucks that it displaces some people who have lived in the neighborhood for generations, but without it that city gets put on the fast track to becoming another Detroit.
But Detroit is already being gentrified
@@itzpro5951 Sure is, but only around the Downtown area, the rest of Detroit, well...
Edit: with the exception of some Detroit neighborhoods like Palmer Woods
@@itzpro5951 I've been thinking of getting a "Runaway Location" there. Nobody would find me.
@@nothat0therguy992 exactly
@@itzpro5951 one of the many problem with Detroit is years of inaction to try to prevent decline, but there is so much more to it
Gentrification can be a great thing as long as it doesn't go too far. Like Nick said it raises everyones income, improves schools, lowers crime, etc. which benefits all residents no matter how long they've been there and only leads to a 5% increase in low income people moving out. However when it goes too far in cities like SF, LA, NYC even the middle class is driven out and thus leads to diminishing returns on crime, income, schools and hurts everyone but the richest.
Great for whom? Only those that are at a high enough income to take advantage of the increases in property values. For all the rest, they get dumped by the wayside.
Pushing out middle and low class buisinesses and even the jobs will do that. SF is especially bad and forces lots of people to commute from out of town making the traffic really bad. I recently look at the numbers and apparently the homeless numbers are on par with the amount of vacant houses which is quite ironic.
@@pasta9368 San Francisco is likely the #1 city in the nation guilty of gentrification, followed closely by New York with Harlem being the most notable area of current gentrification. As areas become rezoned to make space for more businesses, affordable housing decreases concurrently. Some call gentrification the new method of segregation. Others know it as the "new urban crisis."
I used to drink that koolaid but after witnessing it first hand in a smaller city, I realized gentrification only benefits the rich. Ive never seen so many homeless people. There are some parts of the city that are, 'cleaner' but now no one can afford housing anymore. Californians are directly responsible for this. I'm at a decent job and I cant even compete anymore let alone a poor hardworking American
@@krane15 Harlem is not the most noticeable, it's areas in Brooklyn(Fort Greene/Clinton Hill/Bedstuy/Bushwick, etc).
Gentrification is not always good, usually in stablish working class neighborhoods when that occurs, many of the long time home owners have to flee cause of high property taxes. The higher the houses sell for, the higher the taxes will get.
Gentrification directly links to an increase of Karen’s. Fun scientific fact right there
And jogging chicks in ponytails and yoga pants. Sometimes walking dogs. Also, guys in sandals, shorts, T-shirts, and pushing strollers. Lots of breweries....
@@Thomas116-m2n Do you live in my neighborhood? Because you sure described it.
@@kerrynight3271 Lots of SJW causes also, signs in the windows, not activities. Driven through lots of gentrified areas. They're pretty similar.
Best comment on this video!
@arturo smith Rural America is Carhart jackets and ball caps. No coffee shops except the local McDonald's or Burger King.
The fact that you chose the section of the strip district that meets Lawrenceville in Pittsburgh as the opening shot is pretty fitting for a video on gentrification. It’s amazing what you can do to a neighborhood when you sweep the poverty under a rug and put in some new buildings
David Gonzalez jr yeah that’s pretty much what gentrification does. To hell with the people who came before you. Individualism is a hell of a drug
Main problem I have with Gentrification is companies are willing to buy up the neighborhoods and restore them, but they aren't willing to help move the people that are displaced. I understand that progress must be made, but it shouldn't come at another human beings expense
yes that does happen.
So what's the solution?!?!
@Badass Beaver 💯
That’s not their concern...it is up to the folks moving out to be able to supply housing for themselves elsewhere...it’s a dog eat dog world...
Companies don’t care about that, they care about making money. If you don’t make them money, they don’t care.
So neighborhoods that have been left neglected for decades until the property values have bottomed out get back the funding so that the people who suffered through those decades are forced to move out. And that’s praise worthy 🤔.
We were accused of gentrification in Boston, when the locals were all shooting each other, robbing people, or passing out in the gutters. Sometimes you just can’t win.
Time now for most gerrymandered cities in the US.
haha oh man.
Oh that's a good one!
@@NickJohnson be brave!
Nick Johnson hey please do unboxing hawaii and unboxing nevada
Gentrification is a mixed blessing. IMO the rents and mortgages aren’t really worth it. The lower mid class and low income folks still need a place to live.
Exactly we just gonna get more desperate
Misteriosi81 u funny asl u should try that
I think _gentrification_ is a part of a cities' progress. It's been going since humans decided to be sedentary and develop cities. They grow, they shrink, people move around depending on demand, etc. Even Paris went through MASSIVE gentrification during the Haussmann Era. It did tear down a lot of historical buildings from the Medieval era but Baron Haussmann built Paris as we see, love and admire today. Paris became a model for many cities around the world. Boulevards, Avenues, large squares, parks, rotondas, specifically making laws for monuments to stand out, distinct neighbourhoods, well-lit streets, etc. I just hope that the developers and the city councils also think of the poorer people who are being affected by gentrification but that's when it gets tricky :/
Another thought, I think this also lead to an increase of homelessness. People who are being pushed out and replaced don't have necessarily anywhere to go, since they are in the lower income bracket. I wonder what percentage of SF's homeless population is caused by gentrification?
super great stuff Ali. You and I would be friends in real life :)
@@NickJohnson Oh gosh, I think so too haha. I love your content! 💗
@@alistairt7544 Yea, that's what developers usually do, think about the poor people. Yup, they build poor doors.
And Paris sucks now
8:08 the graph shows that crime was coming down significantly for years, then a year of not noting crime and then the process of decreasing crime that was before gentrification took on. It shows no impact of gentrification on crime. It only shows that something in 1997 was happening to crime.
The only way for gentrification to work properly is to institute a UBI. That way poorer citizens have the tools to participate in the gentrification process instead of becoming a victim of it.
UBI is nothing but a nice sounding pipe dream. Where is the money going to come from? Right now we are borrowing 50% of the money we are spending. You cannot print your way to prosperity. The US dollar and our economy is in the process of collapsing before our eyes. The end game and reset is near. Wealth is created by people producing, building, working and creating. Paying people to do nothing is just the opposite and is unsustainable. People have to learn there is no free lunch, we have to live within our means, the Gov't/taxpayer cannot "fix" everything and everybody, and it was never meant to. We have created a entitlement mentality monster. A host organism can only support so many parasites before it dies.
Unfortunately UBI will just cause inflation, just like minimum wage.
UBI has failed everywhere it's been implemented even in the United States
@@nan-sea3814 Yes, that is the typical response from the so called "progressives", spend other peoples money, lol. But you are nor grasping the numbers involved here. You could confiscate everything the 1% owns and that might pay the bill for a few of months, then what? We just keep coming back to basic economic fundamentals here. You can't just keep taking out without putting back in. UBI is just a fantasy for those that think you can get something for nothing. For those who have had everything given to them and don't understand that somebody has had to pay for it.
@@johnstudd4245 Excellent comment!
I hope economics are, once again, reintroduced into the classrooms, so people have a better understanding of why socialism always fails.
Gentrification is a complex subject. On the surface it is a solid thing to do to improve home properties and the like. However, it also pushes out those who are already their by raising their tax rates through the roof. In response to the Obama thing, he is was trying to rectify the fact that far too many people who are trying to move up in the world the proper way from doing so. Too many areas won't take Section 8 even though it is just like cash. Do I think that every person should be able to abuse the system? f course not. However, there are people out there who have done everything they can do get and just need that little bit of help. If you wanna say they cant stay there because they have a history of not paying rent or destroying property or criminal record, that is fine. My concern is that we are zoning areas so that "those" people can't come into "our" neighborhood. And in response to Gentrification, and I know TONS of people are going jump down my throat, it is similar to how our country has treated Native Americans...you can have that land
no wait, there is gold there. You can have that land, no wait, there is OIL there, you can have THAT land....we promise. We don't invest in these communities unless we can, like another person posted, set up a bunch of corporate shops and to show how affluent we are. Watch South Park handle this idea. It represents both sides. Last thing and Iw ill shut up. I have no problem trying to improve a place HOWEVER, if your intent is to force other people out of the area because you want them MORE LIKE YOU..that is a problem.
i used to work for section 8. since then; any time i've moved somewhere, one of first things i tell a prospective landlord is how to make a unit fail the section 8 pre-rental inspection.
believe you me. there is valid reason nobody in their right mind wants to live with/around section 8 people. and to be fair, in the opposite direction, i don't want to live with/around elitist pod people, hipsters, and karens either.
best places to live are where rush hour begins at 5-6am, and is comprised mostly of pickup trucks.
Good reference. South Park's take on Gentrification is fantastic.
Well said Mr. Montez. It's never benefitted my people. It's been my personal experience that when these neighborhoods weren't in the best shape the city never could come up with funds to correct problems yet when people are displaced and move away, the city comes up with all types of funding...that's not right
Jamie Gurley black people?
Gentrification is nothing more than modern day apparatus to achieve segregation. It hasn't gone away, rather, simply taken on a new title. The results are exactly the same.
San Francisco is so gentrified that when you tell people your a SF native they're either shocked, don't believe you or they start to feel bad.
lol true.
Well the real question is, how do you gentrify the poop on the streets?
Same here in West Oakland.
@Badass Beaver Im also an SF native, I would like to see the day the city finding a betterment in income equality, and homelessness. Id hopefully move away by then but would still like to see it.
san francisco 250 years ago was part of spain, if fact california , argentina , chile , the Philippians and spain were the same country and they last a few centuries together, were california has been under american rule for under 200 years, that is yesterday california is not venice.
Idk why his videos are so relaxing to watch but I love em all
Very interesting topic. It’s always good to learn something new even though it’s a more serious topic. Sucks about San Francisco, which is so ridiculously priced. No Mappy appearance, but.....we did get many Nick appearances!😍 And that makes me happy. 😊
aww :)
@Badass Beaver Trader Joe's is my favorite store. Healthy awesome food at affordable prices. Whole Foods can suck eggs, they are way too over priced.
@Badass Beaver I understand. Just support Trader Joe's... they can be the exception. **wink**
@Badass Beaver The smaller business grocery can't compete with the chains. There are none left in my city.
@@Acadian.FrenchFry I guess we have a totally different view of what is affordable. Although compared to WF (where prices are outrageous) it is less expensive.
Some politicians wants to keep people down by helping them and limiting them. Sadly some people don't see it.
*cough* democrats *cough*
User Name coughs poorest states are red. Coughs again
Cough creepy Joe cough
I've seen people deliberately limit their employment so they don't lose their stuff like section 8 and government aid.
Such an easy system to abuse, and nobody is willing to admit it.
Badass Beaver true, just seems like democrats are worse with it
i find myself clicking like before i even watch Nick's videos now! Keep up the great work . I was suprised about New Orleans being on this list, must have been because they reached such a low point with hurricane Katrina
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Was waiting for you to mention, I’m glad you did it’s getting really bad over here
How Atlanta didn't make this list blows my mind!
Hey, thanks for your video. This content is not biased like many of those that try to push a narrative and I appreciate it.
Ok Emmy
Super surprised Chicago, and Milwaukee aren’t on here. Wicker Park and Logan Square in Chicago used to be rougher and now they have lots of hipsters living there, and Milwaukee has the Third Ward which used to be all industrial wasteland and now is a huge bar district and also hosts Summerfest Music Fest
Chicago really that bad compared to other places
@@sneakerheadonlys I know Chicago’s not that bad, I live here. I’m saying though we do have lots of gentrification which is a good thing cause crime goes down
@@joejonas3684 Chicago bad on all gentrification only happening on a few parts of the city all sides have shootings Chicago had high car jacking for 2 decades
Gentrification is "buy cheap, sell high".
I mean New Orleans still has one of the highest murder rates per-capita though.... Not sure if it should be so high
You mean
it’s probably so high because rebuilding after katrina. i went down to new orleans 3 years ago, there’s still some poles and signs with water damage from katrina. insane
@nat lee Huh?
Yes, an excellent place to get killed. I met an older lady who was beaten so badly she was crippled for life. Still stayed there though.
@@Business_News Ahh yes... French people!
All old cities face gentrification
If people with money want to live there that is.
@Green Future Are you British? The term "social housing" sounds British.
Hartford Connecticut hasn’t. Who would want to gentrify it?
@@jonlouis2582 Puerto Ricans are sort of white
@@jonlouis2582 In hartford so gentrification
This has been one of the most interesting vids you have done and I already liked most of your videos! Keep 'em coming!
haha ok Paul.
Gentrification isn't a bad word.... it means development, job, safety and pleasant to the senses. It's ok as long as lower income housing is also available
I completely agree! It's improvement and progress, but we also cannot forget the people who are being pushed away from gentrification.
No everybody who lives in housing are bad people. When my parents were accept in housing was a great. People congratulate us. The reason why the housing is bad now the government started to accept everyone the druggist people who fight in the streets who orine in the elevators, dog fights anybody was accepted no requirements needed. No marriage need only to be single children without fathers and welfare.
David Gonzalez jr yes, when I was living in New York City in a housing every year that I get an increase my rent went through the roof. In 1984 I was paying 365 rent with two girls I was having struggles with 2 girls was easy.
@Badass Beaver im an SF native too, and I remember 10 years ago alot of landlords booting out renters in the mission and charging techies 3x the rent.
@@JudithSanchez-ht6jn that not even true. My grandmother lives in public housing and she one of the hardest worked I every saw . 90% of all people there are nice and hard working people. It just they underfund the system so much. For example if your shower broke and you call the plumber. It take up to 3 or 2 months for them to actually come. The janitor is never there . Also the people from outside the neighborhood treat it like garbage. For example I saw someone dumb there trash there and leave.
That was different but good, learned something new, keep up the good work Nick !!
Glad you liked it Jim!
8:20 Crime has been generally going down since the 90s. I wouldn't solely attribute that to gentrification. You can even see it going down before Katrina hit.
Diego Marcelino crime going down? Where? I want move to this place
@Bernard Garrett no fam since the George Floyd incident crime has risen across the us I even remember a video on this channel where the narrator mentioned I believe since 2015 crime in the US has been on an uptick
More mass shootings than the 90s
Great video. I'm originally from Harlem NYC and your assessment was perfect.
Wow, what a cyclical place. Rich then run down then back up again. I guess Harlem has seen a little of everything.
@@susanhowell1673 when it was rich before they where african american. Now there white people from the mid west.
@@shaddythewiz3836 interesting. I have often wanted to go there. I'm sure it is rich in history.
@@susanhowell1673
look at Sheepshead Bay & Coney Island Brooklyn threatening to put a B.I.D. that displacing mom & pop shops
Excellent topic, had no idea what gentrification was, thanks.
Glad it was helpful Paula!
You should check out Nashville Tennessee. Gentrification has hit the city very hard.
The city has changed SO MUCH in the last decade. A little too much. It was so much more laid back years ago.
does it have anything to do with the brand new ballpark?
@Jabari Standberry when did it start,I was there in 2009
San Francisco blocks of nice condos with people sleeping in front of them in the tents. U will dine at nice restaurant while a homeless poops on the sidewalk in the window in front of you, a person working two jobs as a cook can’t afford rent has to sleep in car and shower at the gym because rent is too high. This is the reality of gentrification.
Noted. It is sad.
I didnt realize gentrification was controversial at all. To me, I think it's very important for a city to revitalize and improve its neighborhoods. As we see more people wanting to move to the cities, the cities that will attract these new waves of people will succeed.
@64imma Well, if another country buy up where you live, view it the same way. I see banks and foreign investors are buying up single family homes in middle America. If those people get pushed into the woods, it is what it is.
@@godofthisshit now that this comment has had a year to age, I'd like to say that while I'm still not totally against gentrification, I do think it shouldn't come at the expense of taking away what might be peoples only assets. I think the government should be required to pay people twice what a homes assessed value is in order to take it for the sake of gentrification
It doesn't surprise me at all that SF is the most gentrified. Honestly as a result of so many people leaving that insanely expensive city my hometown of Santa Rosa just an hour north of it has really gone up in price too and all the new houses I see including homes rebuilt after recovering from the Tubbs Fire of 2017 are hella expensive and honestly feels like gentrification is happening here too but not for the better.
There are however some places that cost way less than the California state average but even so still pricey.
And I love your intro song. "Where did all my old stuff go. I can't live here cuz I'm poor." It doesn't matter that I'm white. I know this feeling.
Phoenix, AZ has seen gentrification in the Downtown area over the last twenty years. ASU built a campus there along with construction of a light rail system, Downtown has seen a renaissance. Although developers are putting up mostly luxury condos it doesn't seem to effect the residents in the area all that much. Downtown does have Roosevelt row for young people and local artists in the area. The City also managed to build Downtown's first grocery store.
Dude! You drove all the way to Detroit just for footage all the way from NC? I always figured you traveled for your day job and just got footage while out. That's dedication!! You Go.
Yes Terry!!
What a great informative video. You did a great job.
Glad it was helpful Jill!
Brilliant video Nick! As a non US person very interesting topic and I’ll learn more in the comments !
You have another 1000 subs since I commented 2 days ago! Way to go!
Well deserved and really good video editing too.
Yes Mappy and Co don’t belong in a video like this. See them later.
Its good and bad. My husband and I owned our first home in a now gentrified neighborhood. It cost us 60k and we sold it for 280k. It enabled both of us for the first time ever to leave unsafe low income areas. We both grew up in "bad" areas and now our kids don't have to.
However, if you don't own you are just pressed out with no compensation and moved into a worse area as rents continue to rise everywhere. Its a double edged sword, but it also can benefit a lot. Its a layered situation, but it shouldn't be demonized.
Great channel. I LOVE your pitch, style and sense of humor!!! Fun and educational at the same time = JOY :-)
So glad! Stay safe :) *hugs*
My prediction: San Francisco on the list (in a bad way)
Edit: wow I was actually right
Badass Beaver yeah those are the weak points of SF. I’m from SF, too.
Badass Beaver a teen living there right now. The streets now are... deserted.
@Badass Beaver born and raised in SF too, 29 years old.
Badass Beaver Excélsior. I went to Paul revere marina, sacred heart. How about you?
Badass Beaver that’s a nice area, I had a girlfriend who lived out there and went to Washington a couple years back. She told me it was predominate Russian / Japanese.
Are you still gonna do the states with the most dangerous animals?
Humans are the most dangerous animals
@@stevena3871 Mosquitoes are the most dangerous.
Florida !
a lots of alligators there
Humans?
I’m surprised that Seattle is not on this list. You need property tax incomes from gentrified neighborhoods in order to keep existing services for your city.
I know about my neighborhood that use to have Greeks and Italians some Brazilians families. Now the gentrification brought homeless, criminals, drugged and violent people from the hell. My neighborhood was safe and nice, now is same as neighborhood of Bronx, not safe, dirty and horrible
Aww I'm sorry Zizi.
I noticed that too a lot of time it back fires and a horrible way. Just causing more homeless , drugs and crime as more people go south trying to make it. Some turn to drug to cover their pain, others turn to stealing, others turn to selling their bodies and the murder rate goes crazy as people stop caring completely.
8:15 uh what? That graph makes it pretty obvious that the decline in crime was before Katrina lmao
Also, New Orleans's population more than cut in half by Katrina, so those statistics actually suggest a higher crime rate.
I'm fairly certain this guy has a predisposed narrative going into all these vids and looks for data to reaffirm it after the fact.
It's a fallacy to even try to attribute crime rate to one single loosely connected variable like gentrification
I live in Denver in one of the fast gentrifying neighborhoods just to the northeast of downtown. Been here a year and have seen alot. The townhouse that I purchased used to be city housing projects that were purchased and renovated by a private investor. I've seen this repeated a few times in the neighborhood in the past year. A FRENCH BRASSERIE restaurant just opened a few blocks away-I was surprised because I didn't think the demographics were "quite there yet". Right now the neighborhood appears to be 1/3 white, 1/3 black, and 1/3 Latino, with everything from housing projects to expensive new townhomes and remodels. I want to freeze the neighborhood right where it is now and stop any further gentrification. It still has a little bit of flavor while still being diverse.
It’s gonna wound up making it’s own flavor when the gentrification process is completed...a different flavor than the one that was there before it...you can’t freeze that stage for long because the two classes of people just don’t mix...it won’t stay the same...it’s not about race, it’s about class...it just happens those with money moving in are mainly whites...
I've been a resident of Denver for over 20 years (I'm under 40 years old), and I have seen Denver change in ways that make me want to cry. Sure, gentrification is making many of the neighborhoods look better, but I think it's largely to blame for the spike in homelessness in the city too. I say this because I'm one of the folks that are experiencing what I call the "gentrification push". Generally, I could be classified as middle class; although realistically my annual income is just barely above the threshold of what is considered low income. I'm currently being forced to relocate for the 3rd time in less than 2 years due to "improvements"; and I'm having a very hard time finding decent housing that I can afford anywhere in the whole greater Denver metro area. I never would've guessed that I'd be in this predicament. It's just crazy! The whole situation is a complicated mess but it makes no sense to have nice buildings if the streets these buildings sit on are lined with homeless encampments on the sidewalks.
@Los 7 It’s not about race, it’s about poor areas in urban cities. Hell’s Kitchen in NYC was a poor Irish-American neighborhood that was gentrified the same as black neighborhoods in inner cities and that’s because it has nothing to do with race and everything to do with inner city poor neighborhoods.
Boyz N The Hood talked about the dangers of gentrification.
Jabari Standberry should’ve took care of their communities. 🤷🏿♂️🤷🏿♂️
Jabari Standberry Listen to yourself with some logic. If a community continues to deteriorate over time the value will decrease and folks will come in and buy the houses in the area, rebuild them and sold them. You mention people not being able to afford well most law obeying citizens leave, black white whatever due to being sick and tired . They take the money and leave. Most are retired with their houses paid for so majority of them are doing fine. Again take are of your community or else. 🤷🏿♂️ would you want to continue to leave in a filthy crime ridden community?
Jabari Standberry word 💯
Danger for poor folks, but utopia for people with money moving in... it just depends on which side of the fence you view it from...
@Los 7 I'll spare you because you have no clue what you're talking about. I'm privileged cause I worked my butt off.
With more young people seeking walkable, more dense and less auto-and-truck dependent urban areas expect to see more and more gentrification. All things considered, I'm very happy to see this!
I'm surprised you didnt really throw in Nashville
Or Atlanta
@Badass Beaver it was we stopped most of the gentrification
does it have anything to do with the brand new minor league park?
UploadVidZ or Atlanta?
@@user-hf3eb8lj5g yep
Gentrfication should be good for everyone of all races and successful people from all backgrounds.
In San Francisco, how could a city filled with rich tech schmucks be anything but awesome?
seattle too.
Gentrification is to housing tracts what “urban renewal” was to commercial tracts in the 1960s, the American style of ethnic cleansing real estate. Notice that no black business districts are left standing, just like “urban renewal”
8:50 Cathedral in Palma de Mallorca! One of the most beautiful cathedrals and islands I’ve been been to :) Funny seeing that footage here because it’s not in the US. It’s in Spain.
You kinda touched on the long-term effects of rioting. A lot of the city neighborhoods known for poverty and crime now were booming until the riots in the 60s. It's shocking how hard it is for these places to rebuild.
I’m surprised you didn’t mention Atlanta.
Nah cuz a lot of black people still live there
@@pandahungry8000 huh?
Panda Hungry huh?
@@pandahungry8000 not really
I love your bluntness. Keep it coming. Gentrification is an absolute necessary need. If an area becomes “stale” it’s dying. Thx for the video brother
Hey Matt!
I manage a loft in Rochester, NY. The city is DYING right now. I’ve never seen such human depravity on the street in my life. People passed out on the street, begging for money, public urination and defecation, and harassing women. It shouldn’t be this way. Can anyone offer some advise on how to fix this?
Yeah, vote in republicans...
@@IslenoGutierrez What would they do about it?
@@olivesama Better than what the Dems are doing about it…
I live in Rochester and yes that is definitely right but start fundraisers and get sponsors to build a group home/Rehab center but push it out and be mindful of people that own there homes
ANN ARBOR MI. First, cops, teachers, nurses and other service people could live there. Now they cannot afford to and must commute from other towns. Now those other towns like Chelsea, Brighton and Saline I’ve seen dramatic skyrocketing property taxes and home prices and are becoming an affordable as well. For everyone that is wealthy enough to live in Ann Arbor, I suggest they start cleaning their own offices policing their own streets, teaching their own kids, and starting their own IVs. Nobody should have to spend two hours in traffic to go to work to help these people who don’t want “the poors “ living amongst them. Gentrification on its face can clean up a city but those cities need to find a way to House the people who keep them up and running. Good video Nick.
Absolutely! It is disgusting that we are kicked out of our homes so an elite few can take over and live like kings.
Hi Ava :)
Nick Johnson Hi Nick. Happy Sunday- time to watch the Lions lose their first game!
gentrification is social cleansing.
Good! I want my old neighborhood back. My city is slowly gentrifying.
@@RatFinkDirty gentrification is urban genocide
@@PodcastCentral333 Not for me it isn't>
Hi Nick!
Good Video and Subject
Seems to improved area's
greatly around here in Tacoma Wa
It's nice to see modern buildings and transportation systems in the city, where once old brick buildings stood.
Keep up the video's coming 😊😊
Cool, thanks Mandy! *hugs*
Nick You made My day!!!
a video a little early this week :) sunday too Wanda!
The cities should do more to at least help small businesses who are displaced to either a new location or help them stay in existing neighborhoods. Nothing really wrong with it as long as they’re not completely erasing established residents.
My main man nick!💯
whattup
Nick, you have my favorite YT voice, perfect for blogging.
What about Philadelphia? I know that the local governmental leadership is horrible, but how did it not make the list for gentrification? I mean, I was born and raised in Kensington (the opioid/drug infested neighborhood) for 13 years, then moved away, started coming back to visit seven years later. (Family.) Within the last 12 years a lot has changed, and in the last five that I have been visiting there has been a lot of development in certain neighborhoods. I’m moving to Center City, later this month-just curious.
I was wondering as well
Gentrification isn’t happening fast enough in New Orleans for me! It’s making our once beautiful city beautiful again. I’m 100% for gentrification.
you're not solving anything by making neighborhoods look nice. it displaces the poor who do not have the resources or time to clean their neighborhood. to actually make better neighborhoods is to have strong mutual aid centers, & incentive less demand to conform to the economy so people have the means to help each other & their neighborhood.
@@averageboi5195 that’s life. Cities have been gentrifying since they were created, over and over. Most people living in those neighborhoods you’re describing are not the original inhabitants anyway and came from elsewhere to gentrify it’s former residents. The only thing constant in cities is change. I can’t wait for gentrification to become complete. Resurrecting old crumbled cities to their former glory and to become even better than they were before.
You’re really diving into the controversial topics here recently, huh, lol?
is this controversial? haha
And I love it! haha These topics need to be discussed and featured :)
This is just the true. I like the way he talk. He is just true to the situation
All his videos are controversial, just look at the like/dislike ratio of all his videos
Boon Doggle free speech and different point of views
Yooooooo I remember when I recommended this to you in your “unboxing Arizona video” lmao. Clutch.
was that you Tyler?
@@NickJohnson yessir didn’t think you would actually make it haha. But I’ve been mistaken.
Cali and Oregon have gone off the radar with their b.s .
California and the city of San Francisco are the worst offender in the nation. Even highly educated young couples can't afford to live in the city.
@@krane15 I mean there's a reason people are willing to buy 1.4 mil houses. The amount of opportunity in that city in INSANE compared to even my own city of Austin
Gentrification is a broad word. Give my an example of a gentrifier person/community. 60% of persons moving in to established neighborhoods are the LGBTQ community. 30% are empty nesters, couples over 50 years old. With no children. 5% are mixed couples. 5% are people that once lived there. Became successful. Now are nostalgia about the community to move back.
For community to successfully become gentrified. There needs to some charm. ie... old buildings/homes, active artisans, and the feel of up-and-coming.
Researchers show that 90% of gentrifiers are liberal people. That are okay about a diverse community as it redevelopes.
I live in Minneapolis suburbs, I think Minneapolis is a great city.
The riots really gave Minneapolis a bad rep that’s not accurate.
I live in MPLS and while I love it I am sick of the gunshots. Enjoy the suburbs
Agreed except the north side
I have to agree, north side sucks
Crespen Greco idk but Baltimore and Philadelphia could use it for sure
What sources do you use to track gentrification? I’m shopping for my first house in Los Angeles and need to compare Van Nuys, Highland Park, and West Adams.
I found that whole list online myself
Surprised Los Angeles neighborhoods didn't make you list. Echo Park, Silver lake, lots of places that have been impacted. Gentrification is ok but not mandated zoning to multiple units as being pushed in CA.
Local New Orleanian here.. it’s helped our city for the best, more diversity bringing in new restaurants and small businesses to help our community for the best. Most of all, locals being open and appreciative to newcomers, as long as they respect the locals of course 😂
what this guy thinks gentrification is - new development replacing old buildings
what gentrification actually is - public policy that funds projects designed to extract poor people, specifically minorities, from their century old communities. Tax valuations and property taxes continue to go up while federal and local assistance programs continue to get cut. Historically redlining has forced minorities to stay in lower quality neighborhoods with worse schools and less infrastructure, and we later kick the minorities out when the city expands enough for the land to be desirable.
There is development that doesn't gentrify, and its not an individual developers choice to "do a gentrification". It's public policy that allows and funds development that gentrifies. So they use our taxes to raise taxes, pretty much.
In most cases it’s not century old communities...more like since the 1960’s, 1970’s and 1980’s because most of the areas getting gentrified are not redlined areas...they are areas in the city core somewhere where the real estate is valuable because of location proximity to its downtown. Nothing wrong with gentrification in my eyes...but I have money so I’m looking at it from my socioeconomic class point of view...not your point of view which is the poor one...so to me, gentrification is a good thing..,
We are facing an unprecedented issue where people are working remotely which means they can live in smaller towns and destroy those now! This must be stopped. Any poor or middle class American needs to stand against this.
Take care of your neighborhood, or someone else will.
“Some people build things, some people destroy things... and that’s all I’m gonna say about that”- Forrest Gump
Growing up in an area that got gentrified, I personally like it. Before gentrification the area is usually bad, high crime, drugs etc. Afrer gentrification the area all the sudden becomes great. So I def rather pay more to live somewhere safe instead of the dump it was before.
Yessss. Because of gentrification, my apartment became 300 percent more expensive in 12 years. Only downside, more crime
Hey nick would say are there any honorable mention cities for this list?, also love your videos 👍🏾
Nashville.
Hey Matt! I'd say Charlotte as well.
This guy is hilarious, love the banging songs.
You know, I'm on itunes Matt :) music.apple.com/us/album/state-songs-an-album/1523790725
Nick Johnson ...and just like that my whole world has changed. Keep up the weird and patriotic work. It’s a nice mix!
A lot of people bring up homelessness, but a lot of homelessness has been caused by the closing of mental health hospitals. The city I use to live in had very few homeless until they closed several of these hospitals. Then they were everywhere.
Nick, you should make an album of Glen Campbell covers, with new words. Example:
"By the time I get to Phoenix, it'll be gentrified . . ."
haha ok Ernie.
I feel like nick Johnson slams poor people in every video he makes
agree, he's very ignorant at this point.
I Knew My Current City Of Minneapolis Would Make The Top 10.
My idea affordable housing, shopping plazas, little more different than gentrification
My town of Marquette hasn't really changed a lot except we have more shopping now. Places like Star Bucks, Michael's craft store, best buy, etc. So I guess that counts as gentrification a little. Most of these are out of the city limits, and we don't have high rises so it's unlikely our official population will ever change.
Marquette Michigan?
@@azmisunshine yes, I'm in Michigan.
Kathy Main I went to NMU in the early 90’s. Went up last year for a graduation and I barely recognized Downton.
@@azmisunshine I was a student at NMU then too! You should see the campus now, they've rebuilt Jamrich, West science, and a whole bunch of dorms and appartments.There is another science building too I think.
Kathy Main Yes, I was super impressed with all of the renovations. Some of my profs from back then are gone now, so it was a little bitter sweet. RIP Daddy Bear. #NMUtheater 💗
The worst thing is Gentrification. I use to live in a nice, safe and cleaning neighborhood and after gentrification is violent, dirty, crowded. Can’t wait to move out.