Our new episode, Philly Streets, which is explores the open-air 'Tranq' market and gentrification in Kensington, is available exclusively on our Patreon - / channel5
Went to Temple from 2013-2015 you go past Diamond you die now you go past Diamond you bump into a white woman named Moon Child that swears their dad DOES NOT work for Lockheed Martin
Only leftists could see a neighborhood go from a crime ridden, unsafe, drug den to a thriving successful community and think that's a BAD THING because "the people there are the wrong color."
Live in this exact area of Philly and it is wild to see $500-900k+ houses & apartments being built next to literal bandos and real bad neighborhoods. Real estate industry has really taken advantage of Philly City owned abandoned lots or poor house owners and built crazy expensive but cheaply built houses. Its a complicated & interesting situation.
This is literal right-wing republican propaganda, Channel 5 is a extremist Trump supporting propaganda channel that attacks democracy, which is extremely dangerous.
There’s really nothing complicated about it. What is happening is the younger generation is starting to realize that the suburbs suck, and we do not have blended housing (see Tokyo for how blended housing and commercial areas works). So now, all of the Millennials and younger are trying to move back into the city. Unfortunately, these areas are where the old factory jobs used to be, which is what mainly employed black people. Now that they don’t have agency or money and did not upkeep anything, they have no leverage. I love my brothers and sisters but the clock is running out. Just like the guy with the college degree “we aren’t dumb we know what’s happening”. Well if people know, then why wouldn’t you spend your youths preparing for it. There’s opportunities in the US for black people but whenever we don’t take advantage and someone else does, this is what happens. Can’t blame white people or corrupt government for ever. Eventually the responsibility falls on the individual.
@@ImLure yep, although ngl black people in those areas are probably gonna just move down south or somewhere else with more opportunity, unless Philly starts bringing back those factory jobs, its just gonna get more bought out.
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Philly's population peaked at 2 million is 1950 or so and is now at 1.5 million. It still hasn't recovered from redlining, white flight/suburbanization, and urban renewal policies that lead to most city's decline in the 60s-90s. Young people who grew up in car dependent suburbia want something else. They want walkability, density, diversity, local businesses, etc. It's easy to criticize those moving en masse into cities but you can't necessarily blame them. I'm born and raised in Brooklyn and had a lot of animosity growing up but I'd never want to live in the suburbs so I can't blame them for not wanting a cookie cutter life in a cul de sac. If Philly doesn't want to become a Boston, dc, or Manhattan 2.0 it needs to create tenant protections, subsidize home ownership to long-term residents, mandate affordable housing (through an MIH district) finance affordable housing using tax credits or the creation of a tax increment finance district and allow for more housing development in areas with a high concentration of vacant or underutilized land. Even if new buildings evoke gentrification, you need to increase supply to accommodate demand. Of course making Philly more livable will make it more in-demand which will drive up prices. Which is why tenant protections are so necessary. Let the long term residents benefit from their neighborhood being more in demand instead of selling it to the highest bidder and kicking them out in the process.
excellent point, a lot of American cities have had a stop on building new housing inside the cities for who knows how long so actually developing in cities isn't the problem, I think everyone would rather live in a nice neighborhood but it's up to the government to actually protect the existing tenants. development isn't the problem, it's exactly as you said.
@@mobogdan4683 yep well said. The solution is often confused with the problem itself and the pushback and fight waged by nimby groups usually exasperates the problem. We live in an upside world where ignorance is at the crux of the problem. I’m glad young people are realizing the history behind these challenges and issues and are applying pressure towards real solutions. I chose urban planning as a career cause I wanted to better my city. Understanding these problems fascinate me too and I’ve met a ton of other likeminded individuals along the way so I’m somewhat optimistic.
This is not serious journalism. A few lazy philly guys complaining about other men fixing up crap houses and selling them. If these guys were'nt degenerates they could get a loan and do the exact same thing.
He's been doing serious journalism since the start. But I get what you're saying though. The subject matter has been much more serious recently, and it's been amazing.
Lived in Philly the past 10+ years, worked at a nonprofit for a while trying to do "equitable" redevelopment (curbing the downsides of gentrification). It's a losing battle no matter what, but the city's largely corrupt government makes it a lot worse.
@augm3ntxr541yeah you leaving RUclips comments is really saving the day buddy keep it up. Logging into RUclips and greentexting “ur the problem” is leftist activism in 2023
That guy at the beginning explaining how the city lets areas get rundown and full of crime so they can buy it for cheap is a really smart assessment of the situation. That never really crossed my mind before I heard him say it
its actually the dumbest thing I ever heard. they are letting crime happen because of mob/victim mentality. Communities are trash because the people living in them are trash. its not that deep.
No matter what happes someone will be hurt and upset, that's very unfortunate. Genitriciation will lower crime and bring families in, but existing residents will be pushed out. If no gentrification happens, this area will continue to deteriorate. Some people despise living in suburbs, even if it's safer. More younger people want to live in the city, walk everywhere and be close to work, instead of driving 40min - 1hour one way every day. But all nice places in cities are too expensive and places that are affordable are dangerous. This is the country we created, too much inequality and instability and nobody is interested in fixing it.
It blows my mind that gentrification is condemned by so many people. Even the man who condemned it and called it racist (without a shred of evidence) claimed that he had been shot in the neighborhood before it was improved. But we're supposed to *want* it to stay dangerous because... that is... not racist?
@@tobynsaundersmaybe solve the actual roots of the problems like red lining, private prisons, legalizing and regulating drugs etc which disproportionately affect those of a certain race. It’s not improvement if the crime just moves to another place and is more behind closed doors.
Move all the minorities into one area so we don't have to deal with them then oh look its advantageous for us to live there now let's force them out financially.... you don't see the problem?????
@@tobynsaunders there are just different sides to gentrification. People have money to pay for more expensive housing win, especially considering the housing shortage we have in this country. But existiing renters can't afford increased rent and homeowners can't afford to pay more property taxes.
@@tobynsaunderswhy not bring that community up and help them build instead of pushing them out to another place and bringing in completely different people
This is Christian Barrett man, hopefully you remember me from Great Books and it was good running into a few years ago in New Orleans at Mardi Gras. Just wishing you the best and keep up the great content!
It's a double-edged sword because we need builders to build more homes to give us more housing inventory, which long-term (10 years or so) might allow the housing supply to match housing demand. We see crazy high prices for homes right now, making them unaffordable for the average American, because the supply is way below the demand. The side effect being that these new developments are put in areas that often displace long-term residents and folks who cannot afford for their property taxes to go up. Channel 5's video series in San Francisco covers this, but largely talks about NIMBYs not wanting new developments in their area. They have the sway to get cities to build in lower income areas, which displaces residents who cannot afford any alternatives. To anyone still reading, has your city come up with good solutions that other cities could model?
IMO there is no good solution to NIMBYism. The only solution is if the government takes a super heavy hand in zoning and housing regulation which would go against democracy. If people bring up rent control, look at the Brownstowne Apartments or other stabilized buildings where those things are literally passed down generation to generation. How would that help people that want to move to the city? If you build more apartments that obviously takes time, and it will lower the property values of the people living in that area and displace some number of people where the development is happening. Etc etc etc With housing tho, Im starting to feel like you need to take these heavy handed approaches or else everywhere just ends up like urban sprawl hell in LA
The impoverished, displaced, homeless and/or addict population of several global cities will soon have the option of entering into weekly gladiatorial combat events. The rules are simple: no guns and no explosives. Anything else is permitted. As you might imagine, things get pretty crazy. It’s rare that death is permitted: most of the time, it’s simply an endurance competition. Fighters always have the option to yield at any moment, but the prizes are incentive enough for many to overcome their fear and embrace the pageantry of combat. At the end of each year, a tournament is held between select fighters who have won the affection of the crowd. First prize is a beautiful house, tax free for life. Finish in any place other than first, and it’s instant death. Some have called this system cruel, but it’s entirely voluntary and has provided a wide range of benefits for the community including a creative and sustainable solution to the so-called “gentrification issue”
I live in Minneapolis and they got rid of single family zoning that seemed to have helped keep housing costs down a lot - a lot of housing around me consists of a house split up into two or more places (I live in a duplex right now), so you can have 4-10 people living in a home that may have been zoned as a place for a family of 2-5 elsewhere. We still have a homelessness issue here without a doubt, but the zoning seems to make a massive difference, especially when these duplexes are $200-450 cheaper per month for rent compared to all the new apartments being propped up along the river that look identical to the ones described in the video
I think we need to think about the actual causes of NIMBYism. One reason is financial, people want their property values to rise. But another reason is that Americans don't want to live next to other people, there are a lot of risks of getting a crazy and sketchy person on your block. So, people are trying to create gated communities. It just shows how flawed this country is.
I went to HS and college in north Philly, I’m happy there’s less crime, even 5 years ago when I had to walk past 20th street from temples campus to visit girls it was not great but now it’s much better
The north Philly/ temple house show music scene was lit back then, just saying. I played in every bad neighborhood around Philly in the 2010s but 2010-2015 temple (off campus housing) era was by far the best place to experience live music
As a lifelong philly resident and Temple dropout, this and the philly streets video are very insightful on some of the issues the city is dealing with. Andrew made a lot of connections and put a lot of things I’ve been thinking about into words. Part of the reason I dropped out of Temple was because of the way the university created an atmosphere of cultural and class warfare in north philly. Their goal is to keep university students safe from the scary north philly hoods, when in reality they are only creating a divide that will push out the marginalized communities that have lived here for decades. Temple students love to decry north philly’s violence and poverty, when they are the ones that contribute to many of its issues. All around temple’s campus, student houses leave trash in the streets with no care for the community. If any other philly ppl see this and know of some org or action that is fighting back against Temple, plz comment to let me know. Im tired of seeing this shit happen and feeling helpless against it
a lot of gentrification is the fact that people, mostly young people, don't wanna live in the suburbs, and the cities have good backbones to build on. And Philadelphia just happens to be somewhat affordable compared to most cities. Costs will rise where people see value, and there's value in cities right now. It is unfortunate that some people will be kicked out of their current situation however.
What people should be talking about is how increase QOL in an area is is inherently good but will lead to COL increases. For example, increasing something like school district quality is always a good thing but will lead to a COL increase. What people should be talking about is how you can help people being offset by the QOL increases in an area maybe by helping relocate a certain number of them, creating public housing for the truly fucked people so they can get on their feet, etc.
yeah but where does the money come from to purchase? Millenials and Gen Z dont have it. So the ponzi of these places is that they are trying to sell to suckers or big money clients who are having trouble even investing the amount of money they have(Extremely wealthy, Wallstreet REITs). It will just further rent extraction practices and stifle the working class as artificially maintaining or increasing property values is the only goal of real estate investors
Yeah, the fact we have built nothing but car centric shithole suburbia since around 1950 unfortunately has made it so any interesting walkable place is super expensive. Like you said, cities have good bones. It just stinks the supply of places you can exist without a car for 100% of your daily tasks is so small.
yeah suburbs are wack. cities have opportunities. and a lot of young people don’t have the bread to buy property in a lot of the country so we are renting in cities
Yea my suburban house sucks. I have 1000k bigger sq ft home that’s not 100 years old, a in ground pool, decent schools, don’t have homeless on my front porch, and I can accidentally leave my garage door open for hours and nothing goes missing. Yea it’s garage.
Sometimes a neighborhood being more healthy then pushes out people who have rented or owned there for a long time. The issue of gentrification and civil engineering is complicated, rife with potential corruption exploits and incredibly difficult to solve in a way that seems fair.
Far more people that sell, and do (and i mean actual residents - people living in those houses, not ppl coming there to get high) dope there than the ones that don't simple
I was born and raised on Kensington, Penn Treaty Jr High and North East HS but they changed the name to Thomas Edison. Many people who are not familiar with Kensington think that K and A (Kensington and Allegheny) is the Center but that’s far from the real centre which is where Kensington Ave begins at the intersection of Front and York Streets. I wrote the history of Kensington while in High School and it was saved at the library in Kensington. It’s interesting to listen to someone who really does not know the story.
What a concept . Nice restaurants , clean buildings without graffiti , people walking around enjoying a nightly stroll with their dog . Sounds humane .
It’s about essentially pushing people who used to live there away to areas that are less fortunate with less education, work force etc.. Invading these places, make the poor poorer and rich richer ( real stators, contractors). The people that you mentioned “enjoying a nightly stroll with their dogs” are most likely to be in a higher socioeconomic class, which unfortunately are most likely linked to Caucasian community, so therefore pushing the poorer farther from the city will create a division and create a region where the poor will have less opportunities, will have more commute time to their work in the down town and essentially stripping away their culture, and time from them, so that the richer are able to have a better more accommodating life. Like Marcus Aurelius said “ we are all born for each other”. Us as a community we should uplift these communities so they have a better chance in life, rather than push them to be forgotten how in many cases happen.
@@isabelagimenis2564 the rich real estators just don't care, it's just simple as that... "oh they can't afford rent" "damn thats crazy" its just happens poor black and brown people live in Urban areas ALOT more than poor white people, BUT add to the concoction the well off don't wanna live in suburbs anymore... *shocker* they suck, and they also don't wanna live near poor "urban" people. Its a recipe for gentrification overdrive.
@@isabelagimenis2564 I hear your thoughts but what I wrote should be enjoyed in all communities . It’s not an income or race statement but a humane one .
Improving the neighborhood is not a bad thing. Yoga and frozen yogurt are things people enjoy, just because someone else doesn’t doesn’t make them bad in someway. Dear lord you shouldn’t have to live in a place where you can be shot 15 times. We, as a species, should constantly be working towards improvement and a better tomorrow. That includes everyone, regardless of skin color or gender. Can’t understand why someone would want to live in a rundown area, with the fear of possibly not making it home after work.
You are an idiot who completely missed what was being said. The area isn't "getting improved" to make it safer, it is "getting improved" to raise the value of property, which directly causes rent to go up for existing residents, which pushes them to leave since they can't afford multi-million dollar real estate. Btw nice name "lilstarship". Go read the comments, they're flaming idiots like you.
Philly's lack of enforcing the laws and community accepting crime has been why certain areas like Kensington have gotten so bad. Now its gotten cheap enough to buy and build brand new homes. This is the market cycle, not an evil plan. Its better for everyone that these areas improve and more opportunities and jobs come to the city.
Only to turn the next block further North into what Kensington is now. You can't solve this problem by continuing to force people out, they tried in Chicago and all it did was make the crime and violence worse in the suburbs. Gentrification doesn't improve anything for the people who grew up in the city, it just replaces them with wealthy people moving in temporarily from the suburbs for the "city experience". When they leave the opportunities and jobs go with them. Don't fool yourself into thinking new homes are gonna fix our problems.
The market cycle is an evil plan dipshit. The negative will always be that people will be forced out of their homes and neighborhoods sometimes with nowhere else to go.
I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is resources were pulled out of neighborhoods decades ago and for decades, like my family in South Philly, they wanted reform and change to their neighborhoods but got nothing from the city. But once developers target a location like South Philly the goal isn't to help the ppl there but to price them out and then all of sudden the city has money to pour into these neighborhoods. My family was fighting with the city since the 70s for reform in South and never got it. Now, the neighborhood has all types of resources, but property also cost about a million bucks plus. Working class ppl get nothing but the shaft in this country. Fun Note: My grandmother got priced out of her home and her beloved South Philly, her thank you for fighting for her community for decades. That's the real issue.
Are NIMBYs and the Anti-gentrification crowd two sides of the same coin? Usually different backgrounds for the two groups, but at the heart of their arguments is wanting the neighborhoods to stay the same and villifying chang, right?
So glad he's covering this, but it goes wayyyy deeper then this. I went to drexel and my friends lived on diamond street in the temple area. The fight in west philly with the UC town homes has been crazy but to see the sheer volume of development aroun north west and east of temple is downright insane. It's really a slow moving ethnic/class clensing. My friedns and i walked by this house that was all burnt up and we got to talking to these people. This woman jennifer bennetch and her family lived there. She told us about how the Philadelphia housing authority was corrupt. Thye basically wanted to eminent domain the whole block so that they could sell it to devleopers through tax sales. They would start citing poor residents for code violations. things like overgrown grass, and such. Eventually if enough of those citations piled up and went unpaid theyd sieze your house. Except Jen wasn't willing to move out and kept occupying her home. The PHA who basically have their own police force, would come around and harass them, try and cuase trouble and turn their few remainaing neighbors against them. It eventually ended with their home getting fire bombed by PHA. Jen would go on to do an occupy type protest out front of PHA headquarters. And when the BLM uprisings happened, alot of organizing went into occupying public land. Many many homeless poeple and activists occupied a park near the art musuem, they were building shelters, getting water, making food. it was amazing. And they did the same thing out front of the PHA headquarters. The hope was that, the orgnisers (jen being one of them) could get the city to agree to open up the waitlist for affordable housing and also find homes for every occupant at the homeless encampmants. many of whom had been evicted by PHA, and their police force. Eventually after many standoffs with police they came to an agreement. Athough this was done in secret, and without anything in writing (big mistake). the city agreed to form a land trust and place a home in it for each homeless occupant of the ecampments. in responce the camp would disband, which is exactly what happened, excep[t only a handfuyl 10-15 people actually got homes. It was a bait and switch. The moral of the story is PHA which is supposed to the city's agency that helps people find affordable housing is a military force used to evist poepl. and infact is one of the biggest single servers of evictions in the city. They do this to aqcuire property and then sell for cheap to developers, to fund their bugest. Developers then put in luxury apartmetns that only shitty rich kids and college professors can afford. It's destroying the city, to the point where even these college kids can't afford to the their anymore, but hey people moving from new york can afford it lol. And dont even get me started and drexel/Upenn and all the colleges part in this. Drexel is at this point more of a real-estate ponzy scheme then it is an instition for learning, and i mean that litterally, I'm not being hyperbolic. The great contradiction in this whole saga is that Philly has a huge homelessness problem, alot of poepl eliving on the streets and getting into crime, and yet there are thousands of homes being built. but the people who need those homes, and new jop opportunites, and educational opportunities are pushed out and displaced and priced out. Basically making a white flight in reverse, where wealtheir whiter people move in from the suburbs or from expensive cities like NY and start living cheap to them but is expensiuve the average philadelphian
hes actually not that bright. it is not a "ponzi scheme". tax abatements are given so builders are incentivized to fix up these trash neighborhoods. Meanwhile Andrew makes probably $1M per year pandering to dumb people online
Gentrification is like the dumbest thing to be upset about and I’m flat broke and down own a home. Rich people are making druggies commit crimes on purpose to drive down value? What?! Or that’s just where druggies commit crimes. It only makes business sense that once no one wants to live or do business there you invest to clean it up and make it a better place for profit.
That tax abatement stuff I think is linked to Federal "Opportunity Zones". Basically the sweetest deal the federal government ever gave real estate investors in the last 20 years. But the catch is you gotta have a lot of cash on hand to even take advantage of the Opportunity Zones. And if you're a philly developer with connections to the right people in the city, you can make sure your "opportunity zone" investment stays well protected.
No Philly Had a 10 year tax abatement on all new Developments which was being phased out in 2020. Kensington and much of North Philadelphia is in a Keystone Opportunity Zone and Federal Opportunity Zone.
The issue when people talk about gentrification is current residents being displaced because in improvised areas, most people are renting and aren't homeowners. This is what people get caught up on, and we all would agree that we want urban development and people confuse it with other things. What people should be suggesting is that you should have pathways in place to help people that will get displaced by raising prices
"Urban Regeneration" is just a part of the "plan" though. 1. Let the streets go wild and real estate plummets. 2. "Urban Regeneration" which displaces the people who can't afford the "rejuvenated" prices. 3. Rent the properties out to potential homeowners at ridiculous price points that have to rent units because they're not building homes for sale even though they have the capitol to buy. The homeless and drug addicts, don't just disappear, they just move the problem somewhere else.
I'm finishing up at Temple right now and you're exactly right. I'm an education major and I did one of my observations at Mastebaum which is a vocational school in what I would consider the "real" Kensington, meaning about a block from that spot under the L where you were at. Kids walk to school everyday passed people ODing and shooting up on the sidewalk. Every day I went to that practicum, I took bus 3 up Front St. and every day I saw people actively shooting up. On my last day there I saw an old man inject heroin/fentanyl into an old woman's neck and cover her with a blanket once she nodded off. If you walk 15 minutes south of there, you're in housing developments that I would struggle to afford on a teaching salary. People call it zombie land or the walking dead, and it is as bad or worse than what you're showing here. This kind of journalism is necessary, I hope in 10 years people will look back on how we treat our homeless and addicts with the horror, disgust, and guilt we deserve as a Philadelphia community and as Americans.
Why is gentrification perceived negatively? Despite the clear improvement of neighborhoods, the person seems discontent that the current state of the area includes safe bicycle rides, contrasting with their past experiences of being shot when they lived there. I find it confusing.
I was college-aged when the message I heard was "If you to Temple don't leave the campus." It wasn't really ever on my radar for college but a lot of friends went there and seemed like it worked out well for them so I wish I had given it a chance.
Nah, I just finished up my second semester at temple and it’s been getting dangerous even on campus. You’ve got highschool kids shooting at eachother across broad street. People in fresh grocer which a lot of temple students shop at threatening to shoot others over a simple argument. It’s wild
Never ever had a problem, anywhere in N philly, Kensington included in the 11 years I ran around out there. Anyone tries to eye you or gives you bad energy just start talking to yourself like "man I'm not letting that happen again they're not taking it away from me this time" or something to that affect and never had an issue after using a line like that and just stare straight ahead, lol. But really all the best people I met were in and from philly. I miss it there I left in 2021
@@LimoneneDaddy you might not of had issues but the issues still affect the students trying to get an education in north philly. You can’t really act unhinged to defend against stray bullets going into your apartment because someone decided to shoot up a little league football game next to campus
Moved to apart of Philly near Temple a year ago and seeing all these new places popping up in just that short amount of time is really insane. There's definitely an unspoken tension when I bike my way to work with the current residents. I have a studio apt in an old building and work with small business owners / entrepreneurs so I'm trying to help people that actually make the city what it is but I certainly feel uncomfortable with the rate that things are growing compared to people struggling outside at all times no matter what the weather is.
Also notice how for every single one of these guys it's "THEM", "CAUCASIANS", "THOSE PEOPLE". Most Black people in America in 2023 are incredibly racist. They see everyone else as their race and judge everyone based entirely on what skin color they are.
Lesson here is. If you don't protect and maintain your property, they will take it. You didn't care about your community so why should we? Enjoy having nowhere to live because all you want is to act tough and cool.
What people fail to understand about gentrification when they say “how is this bad?” is that the problems still exist for the people who live here, they’re just being swept under the rug or pushed elsewhere. Sooner rather than later, those people that lived in those communities will have nowhere to go. This is happening in Detroit. They literally cut off large portions of folks from direct access to the train line and are basically telling people who have lived there for generations that they are no longer part of the Detroit Metro area so they don’t even get to experience part of the “positive” changes happening in their own neighborhood after it happens. This doesn’t solve shit either it’s all cosmetic changes while the identity and essence of the neighborhood deteriorates.
I lived in Philly since 08' and the problem is clear - only when investors swoop in will the city perform its duties to protect, serve, repair, and make resources readily available. There are countless community run organizations in Kensington seeking to compensate for the cities negligence. It''s sad. So many long time residents just want peace in the place they call home. Gentrification wouldn't be a problem if it served anyone but the wealthy.
1:15 I'm white, I got a college degree, and for a while I was working in a kitchen for 11-15 an hour bro. It's not the color of your skin, it's your victim mentality. I was pissed, but I just realized I had to figure something out. I didn't just blame something external that isn't even true.
Allowing for more construction with less red tape will eventually provide affordable housing in cities across the US. People have come to realize the suburbs were a mistake for a lot of people because they just don’t want to live that way. The city is the economic center of the region, so suburbanites come in anyway and drive through neighborhoods as shortcuts in their giant SUVs. If more of the people that worked in Philly felt comfortable living in Philly (and it was affordable to do so), we could see so many improvements. Streets could be closed to traffic, trolley lines could be brought back, legit neighborhoods could reemerge with delis, tailors, actual stores instead of boutique hipster places. What the city needs is it to be easier to build a lot quickly. No more overpriced "luxury apartments" you cant overcharge for housing when there are new builds on every block.
No offense to that one guy that mentioned having a college degree, and I don't know him so I'm not trying to say something about his intelligence in specific (I don't think he's stupid), but having a college degree is not a sign of intelligence. Some of the stupidest people I've ever known have had college degrees, it's really not hard to get one, you just need money or the ability to take out a loan. You can scrape by and just get C's and they'll give you the degree as long as you have all of your credits and they have their money. I'd say there are certain degrees that require a good amount of intelligence, specifically in the realm of sciences and technology, but a lot of common degrees like psychology or business really don't require much intelligence to succeed in.
If someone gets a psychology or business degree and does not understand basic algebra, statistics and perhaps even a bit of technology usage...they probably got fleeced by a college lookin for that sweet, sweet student loan nectar.
Lived and worked up here for like 6 years. Shit is wild how quickly it's coming up. My mom grew up in Germantown and Kensington and she's fucking blown away how nice it is when she was part of the only poor white family on her blocks watching women get raped and shit on the street. Insane to go back when I'm around for holidays.
I dont appreciate the conspiracy bent and vilification of development. Philly used to have 2+ million people, now has 1.6 million. We shouldnt have abandoned lots and all the crime but we are the poorest large US city. Only way to make the area nice again is to invest in it and that means upping the tax base, unless fed govt finally invests back in cities because Republicans in Harrisburg certainly wont. The video is literally showing that this works. York Dauphin station went from a place you get shot, to safe. People of all colors and incomes should have that comfort, thats the only negative here is that the benefits are not distributed equally. I dont think the Kensington opiod epedimic is planned / conspiracy. Everyone knows Philly city govt is ineffective. I interned in city hall. There is corruption, but mostly these people just suck. No one is intentionally keeping the neighborhood saddled with drugs, it would just take a ton of resources and a unified vision - two things extremely hard to pull together in Philly. Also for the record, I live right off Lehigh straddling the lines of these areas. The development he featured is decently close to K&A but its closer to Frankford ave which is trendy af. Theres a reason theyre building there and pricing it high. Bottomline is, I want to see Philly improve and be more livable for all, but inequality will continue to be a part of the story without govt intervention and in the meantime we shouldnt straight up vilify those that are investing in these neighborhoods (should still be skeptical and regulate developers tho)
Currently homeless in Philly. I won't specifically say where the shelter I'm in is located but lets just say in the general Temple area. It's definitely fascinating seeing these new developments going all the way down Cecil. To some extent, I feel that the gentrification being performed in the Temple area in particular is a bit different than like typical yuppy gentrification--A large portion of Temple students are essentially going to rent out these rowhomes for the 4-8 years they're in schooling then dip out of Philly. It's kind of like a community in constant flux rather than the typical white replacement of black & brown areas.
i am seeing this in rural Georgia. Apartments developed in the city cause more people to move out. Transplants from other cites who can afford to live in town come and fill up not only the apartments but also the suburbs. Im an hour away from the next major city and i cant afford a new house where I grew up bc more people are coming so they can commute an hour away.
Why do we constantly talk about people coming into communities to make them better as a negative descriptor but don’t even have a word for when gangs or homeless drug addicts reshape the face of our cities in a negative way? I know it’s cus Andrew’s fan base is left leaning but how does this make sense
Yeah man same story here. My parents went to temple in the 80s and growing up they would make it sound like a punishment to study and live there. Now it’s becoming a lot of Philly suburb kids 1st choice school.
My thoughts exactly! It is these bum blacks who don’t want to improve themselves and be better that are bringing our race down. If you wont adapt it is on you
Say what you want but Philly and Kensington in particular, much like Boston with Southie was mostly white irish immigrants originally. They were the largest ethnic group in Philadelphia for a long time so its kind of wild to hear people complain about gentrification when their own family's roots could run just as deep
It is funny, Mantua is getting the same treatment because of Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania. There needs to be a way to fix up the houses that already exist because Philly has a lot of dilapidated homes. While not screwing over the people who still live in the area.
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Went to Temple from 2013-2015 you go past Diamond you die now you go past Diamond you bump into a white woman named Moon Child that swears their dad DOES NOT work for Lockheed Martin
Lmao
Philadelphia in 1960 was 72% white and in 1970 64%. Historically a lot of NP was Jewish. It’s just returning to its historic form
Only leftists could see a neighborhood go from a crime ridden, unsafe, drug den to a thriving successful community and think that's a BAD THING because "the people there are the wrong color."
Moon Child 🤦♂️ can only imagine what her son's name is
why is this a bad thing lol
Live in this exact area of Philly and it is wild to see $500-900k+ houses & apartments being built next to literal bandos and real bad neighborhoods. Real estate industry has really taken advantage of Philly City owned abandoned lots or poor house owners and built crazy expensive but cheaply built houses. Its a complicated & interesting situation.
This is literal right-wing republican propaganda, Channel 5 is a extremist Trump supporting propaganda channel that attacks democracy, which is extremely dangerous.
There’s really nothing complicated about it. What is happening is the younger generation is starting to realize that the suburbs suck, and we do not have blended housing (see Tokyo for how blended housing and commercial areas works). So now, all of the Millennials and younger are trying to move back into the city. Unfortunately, these areas are where the old factory jobs used to be, which is what mainly employed black people. Now that they don’t have agency or money and did not upkeep anything, they have no leverage.
I love my brothers and sisters but the clock is running out. Just like the guy with the college degree “we aren’t dumb we know what’s happening”. Well if people know, then why wouldn’t you spend your youths preparing for it. There’s opportunities in the US for black people but whenever we don’t take advantage and someone else does, this is what happens. Can’t blame white people or corrupt government for ever. Eventually the responsibility falls on the individual.
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@@ImLure yep, although ngl black people in those areas are probably gonna just move down south or somewhere else with more opportunity, unless Philly starts bringing back those factory jobs, its just gonna get more bought out.
I like this new Andrew, keep up the good work, power to the people 👏🏽
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He’s the same mf Andrew
@@Dingus138Blud why u still hangin around if tht how u feel
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@@Dingus138 you gon have to elaborate on that.
I’m so glad this got 127k views more need to see this truth in logic honest trust loyalty …please share this people 💙 1 share from 100 ppl and this video could surge to a million.
Best video I’ve ever seen on the complete breakdown of public police order in Kensington pa. Thanks 🙏🏽
Philly's population peaked at 2 million is 1950 or so and is now at 1.5 million. It still hasn't recovered from redlining, white flight/suburbanization, and urban renewal policies that lead to most city's decline in the 60s-90s. Young people who grew up in car dependent suburbia want something else. They want walkability, density, diversity, local businesses, etc. It's easy to criticize those moving en masse into cities but you can't necessarily blame them. I'm born and raised in Brooklyn and had a lot of animosity growing up but I'd never want to live in the suburbs so I can't blame them for not wanting a cookie cutter life in a cul de sac. If Philly doesn't want to become a Boston, dc, or Manhattan 2.0 it needs to create tenant protections, subsidize home ownership to long-term residents, mandate affordable housing (through an MIH district) finance affordable housing using tax credits or the creation of a tax increment finance district and allow for more housing development in areas with a high concentration of vacant or underutilized land. Even if new buildings evoke gentrification, you need to increase supply to accommodate demand. Of course making Philly more livable will make it more in-demand which will drive up prices. Which is why tenant protections are so necessary. Let the long term residents benefit from their neighborhood being more in demand instead of selling it to the highest bidder and kicking them out in the process.
excellent point, a lot of American cities have had a stop on building new housing inside the cities for who knows how long so actually developing in cities isn't the problem, I think everyone would rather live in a nice neighborhood but it's up to the government to actually protect the existing tenants. development isn't the problem, it's exactly as you said.
@@mobogdan4683 yep well said. The solution is often confused with the problem itself and the pushback and fight waged by nimby groups usually exasperates the problem. We live in an upside world where ignorance is at the crux of the problem. I’m glad young people are realizing the history behind these challenges and issues and are applying pressure towards real solutions. I chose urban planning as a career cause I wanted to better my city. Understanding these problems fascinate me too and I’ve met a ton of other likeminded individuals along the way so I’m somewhat optimistic.
Keep going the serious journalist route, Andrew. It's a good fit -- and evolution -- for you.
Anybody who chooses to be a journalist is serious.
@@kelbalenot really
This is not serious journalism. A few lazy philly guys complaining about other men fixing up crap houses and selling them. If these guys were'nt degenerates they could get a loan and do the exact same thing.
He's been doing serious journalism since the start. But I get what you're saying though. The subject matter has been much more serious recently, and it's been amazing.
He wasn't being any different, he's just talking about his own city for once, nothing really to mock
Lived in Philly the past 10+ years, worked at a nonprofit for a while trying to do "equitable" redevelopment (curbing the downsides of gentrification). It's a losing battle no matter what, but the city's largely corrupt government makes it a lot worse.
@augm3ntxr541 if you think there is a single “the problem,” you dont understand this issue - sorry.
Do you get that you will never be able to stop working because of slave wage " non- profits"?
Philadelphia needs people with MONEY. We don't need more poor people. There's more than enough of them already.
@augm3ntxr541yeah you leaving RUclips comments is really saving the day buddy keep it up. Logging into RUclips and greentexting “ur the problem” is leftist activism in 2023
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That guy at the beginning explaining how the city lets areas get rundown and full of crime so they can buy it for cheap is a really smart assessment of the situation.
That never really crossed my mind before I heard him say it
Its literally the plot to robo cop 2. We are literally living in a half assed science fiction movie right now.
its actually the dumbest thing I ever heard. they are letting crime happen because of mob/victim mentality. Communities are trash because the people living in them are trash. its not that deep.
@@kennydoggins1712 HEY! Robocop 2 had WAY more effort than our current dystopia!
@@Badmanpuntbaxter at least the sound track and pop culture was better at the time
Just so people know, this is like one of the first things Temple University students learn about when they attend the school.
No matter what happes someone will be hurt and upset, that's very unfortunate. Genitriciation will lower crime and bring families in, but existing residents will be pushed out. If no gentrification happens, this area will continue to deteriorate. Some people despise living in suburbs, even if it's safer. More younger people want to live in the city, walk everywhere and be close to work, instead of driving 40min - 1hour one way every day. But all nice places in cities are too expensive and places that are affordable are dangerous. This is the country we created, too much inequality and instability and nobody is interested in fixing it.
It blows my mind that gentrification is condemned by so many people. Even the man who condemned it and called it racist (without a shred of evidence) claimed that he had been shot in the neighborhood before it was improved. But we're supposed to *want* it to stay dangerous because... that is... not racist?
@@tobynsaundersmaybe solve the actual roots of the problems like red lining, private prisons, legalizing and regulating drugs etc which disproportionately affect those of a certain race. It’s not improvement if the crime just moves to another place and is more behind closed doors.
Move all the minorities into one area so we don't have to deal with them then oh look its advantageous for us to live there now let's force them out financially.... you don't see the problem?????
@@tobynsaunders there are just different sides to gentrification. People have money to pay for more expensive housing win, especially considering the housing shortage we have in this country. But existiing renters can't afford increased rent and homeowners can't afford to pay more property taxes.
@@tobynsaunderswhy not bring that community up and help them build instead of pushing them out to another place and bringing in completely different people
Everyone likes nice things but everyone hates gentrification… how ironic
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This is Christian Barrett man, hopefully you remember me from Great Books and it was good running into a few years ago in New Orleans at Mardi Gras. Just wishing you the best and keep up the great content!
Of course I remember you g. Much love! Miss hanging out, For real.
It's a double-edged sword because we need builders to build more homes to give us more housing inventory, which long-term (10 years or so) might allow the housing supply to match housing demand. We see crazy high prices for homes right now, making them unaffordable for the average American, because the supply is way below the demand. The side effect being that these new developments are put in areas that often displace long-term residents and folks who cannot afford for their property taxes to go up. Channel 5's video series in San Francisco covers this, but largely talks about NIMBYs not wanting new developments in their area. They have the sway to get cities to build in lower income areas, which displaces residents who cannot afford any alternatives. To anyone still reading, has your city come up with good solutions that other cities could model?
IMO there is no good solution to NIMBYism. The only solution is if the government takes a super heavy hand in zoning and housing regulation which would go against democracy. If people bring up rent control, look at the Brownstowne Apartments or other stabilized buildings where those things are literally passed down generation to generation. How would that help people that want to move to the city? If you build more apartments that obviously takes time, and it will lower the property values of the people living in that area and displace some number of people where the development is happening. Etc etc etc
With housing tho, Im starting to feel like you need to take these heavy handed approaches or else everywhere just ends up like urban sprawl hell in LA
The impoverished, displaced, homeless and/or addict population of several global cities will soon have the option of entering into weekly gladiatorial combat events. The rules are simple: no guns and no explosives. Anything else is permitted. As you might imagine, things get pretty crazy. It’s rare that death is permitted: most of the time, it’s simply an endurance competition. Fighters always have the option to yield at any moment, but the prizes are incentive enough for many to overcome their fear and embrace the pageantry of combat. At the end of each year, a tournament is held between select fighters who have won the affection of the crowd. First prize is a beautiful house, tax free for life. Finish in any place other than first, and it’s instant death. Some have called this system cruel, but it’s entirely voluntary and has provided a wide range of benefits for the community including a creative and sustainable solution to the so-called “gentrification issue”
I live in Minneapolis and they got rid of single family zoning that seemed to have helped keep housing costs down a lot - a lot of housing around me consists of a house split up into two or more places (I live in a duplex right now), so you can have 4-10 people living in a home that may have been zoned as a place for a family of 2-5 elsewhere.
We still have a homelessness issue here without a doubt, but the zoning seems to make a massive difference, especially when these duplexes are $200-450 cheaper per month for rent compared to all the new apartments being propped up along the river that look identical to the ones described in the video
@@12grain how did the legislation get passed? Was it popular in the city to do this kinda thing?
I think we need to think about the actual causes of NIMBYism. One reason is financial, people want their property values to rise. But another reason is that Americans don't want to live next to other people, there are a lot of risks of getting a crazy and sketchy person on your block. So, people are trying to create gated communities. It just shows how flawed this country is.
I went to HS and college in north Philly, I’m happy there’s less crime, even 5 years ago when I had to walk past 20th street from temples campus to visit girls it was not great but now it’s much better
The north Philly/ temple house show music scene was lit back then, just saying. I played in every bad neighborhood around Philly in the 2010s but 2010-2015 temple (off campus housing) era was by far the best place to experience live music
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As a lifelong philly resident and Temple dropout, this and the philly streets video are very insightful on some of the issues the city is dealing with. Andrew made a lot of connections and put a lot of things I’ve been thinking about into words. Part of the reason I dropped out of Temple was because of the way the university created an atmosphere of cultural and class warfare in north philly. Their goal is to keep university students safe from the scary north philly hoods, when in reality they are only creating a divide that will push out the marginalized communities that have lived here for decades. Temple students love to decry north philly’s violence and poverty, when they are the ones that contribute to many of its issues. All around temple’s campus, student houses leave trash in the streets with no care for the community.
If any other philly ppl see this and know of some org or action that is fighting back against Temple, plz comment to let me know. Im tired of seeing this shit happen and feeling helpless against it
a lot of gentrification is the fact that people, mostly young people, don't wanna live in the suburbs, and the cities have good backbones to build on. And Philadelphia just happens to be somewhat affordable compared to most cities. Costs will rise where people see value, and there's value in cities right now. It is unfortunate that some people will be kicked out of their current situation however.
What people should be talking about is how increase QOL in an area is is inherently good but will lead to COL increases. For example, increasing something like school district quality is always a good thing but will lead to a COL increase. What people should be talking about is how you can help people being offset by the QOL increases in an area maybe by helping relocate a certain number of them, creating public housing for the truly fucked people so they can get on their feet, etc.
yeah but where does the money come from to purchase? Millenials and Gen Z dont have it. So the ponzi of these places is that they are trying to sell to suckers or big money clients who are having trouble even investing the amount of money they have(Extremely wealthy, Wallstreet REITs). It will just further rent extraction practices and stifle the working class as artificially maintaining or increasing property values is the only goal of real estate investors
Yeah, the fact we have built nothing but car centric shithole suburbia since around 1950 unfortunately has made it so any interesting walkable place is super expensive.
Like you said, cities have good bones. It just stinks the supply of places you can exist without a car for 100% of your daily tasks is so small.
yeah suburbs are wack. cities have opportunities. and a lot of young people don’t have the bread to buy property in a lot of the country so we are renting in cities
Yea my suburban house sucks. I have 1000k bigger sq ft home that’s not 100 years old, a in ground pool, decent schools, don’t have homeless on my front porch, and I can accidentally leave my garage door open for hours and nothing goes missing. Yea it’s garage.
Recent content has been top tier. Great work.
Hard to tell who wants their neighborhood to get better or stay the same
Sometimes a neighborhood being more healthy then pushes out people who have rented or owned there for a long time.
The issue of gentrification and civil engineering is complicated, rife with potential corruption exploits and incredibly difficult to solve in a way that seems fair.
Far more people that sell, and do (and i mean actual residents - people living in those houses, not ppl coming there to get high) dope there than the ones that don't simple
I was born and raised on Kensington, Penn Treaty Jr High and North East HS but they changed the name to Thomas Edison. Many people who are not familiar with Kensington think that K and A (Kensington and Allegheny) is the Center but that’s far from the real centre which is where Kensington Ave begins at the intersection of Front and York Streets. I wrote the history of Kensington while in High School and it was saved at the library in Kensington. It’s interesting to listen to someone who really does not know the story.
What a concept . Nice restaurants , clean buildings without graffiti , people walking around enjoying a nightly stroll with their dog . Sounds humane .
It’s about essentially pushing people who used to live there away to areas that are less fortunate with less education, work force etc.. Invading these places, make the poor poorer and rich richer ( real stators, contractors). The people that you mentioned “enjoying a nightly stroll with their dogs” are most likely to be in a higher socioeconomic class, which unfortunately are most likely linked to Caucasian community, so therefore pushing the poorer farther from the city will create a division and create a region where the poor will have less opportunities, will have more commute time to their work in the down town and essentially stripping away their culture, and time from them, so that the richer are able to have a better more accommodating life. Like Marcus Aurelius said “ we are all born for each other”. Us as a community we should uplift these communities so they have a better chance in life, rather than push them to be forgotten how in many cases happen.
@@isabelagimenis2564 the rich real estators just don't care, it's just simple as that... "oh they can't afford rent" "damn thats crazy" its just happens poor black and brown people live in Urban areas ALOT more than poor white people, BUT add to the concoction the well off don't wanna live in suburbs anymore... *shocker* they suck, and they also don't wanna live near poor "urban" people. Its a recipe for gentrification overdrive.
@@isabelagimenis2564 I hear your thoughts but what I wrote should be enjoyed in all communities . It’s not an income or race statement but a humane one .
Andrew's monologue, from 1:30 until the end of the video, was fantastic. His skill with words and his command of the subject were admirable.
Lmao. "Like, like, like, like"
@@msheehandubthat’s what makes it human though. He talks like the rest of us and doesn’t posture himself as a self-righteous journalistic asshole
Pull his cock out of your mouth Jesus Christ he aint that special
I like safe clean places
Lets get more than short clips
Improving the neighborhood is not a bad thing. Yoga and frozen yogurt are things people enjoy, just because someone else doesn’t doesn’t make them bad in someway. Dear lord you shouldn’t have to live in a place where you can be shot 15 times. We, as a species, should constantly be working towards improvement and a better tomorrow. That includes everyone, regardless of skin color or gender. Can’t understand why someone would want to live in a rundown area, with the fear of possibly not making it home after work.
You are an idiot who completely missed what was being said. The area isn't "getting improved" to make it safer, it is "getting improved" to raise the value of property, which directly causes rent to go up for existing residents, which pushes them to leave since they can't afford multi-million dollar real estate. Btw nice name "lilstarship". Go read the comments, they're flaming idiots like you.
Philly's lack of enforcing the laws and community accepting crime has been why certain areas like Kensington have gotten so bad. Now its gotten cheap enough to buy and build brand new homes. This is the market cycle, not an evil plan. Its better for everyone that these areas improve and more opportunities and jobs come to the city.
Only to turn the next block further North into what Kensington is now. You can't solve this problem by continuing to force people out, they tried in Chicago and all it did was make the crime and violence worse in the suburbs. Gentrification doesn't improve anything for the people who grew up in the city, it just replaces them with wealthy people moving in temporarily from the suburbs for the "city experience". When they leave the opportunities and jobs go with them. Don't fool yourself into thinking new homes are gonna fix our problems.
The market cycle is an evil plan dipshit. The negative will always be that people will be forced out of their homes and neighborhoods sometimes with nowhere else to go.
God forbid a horrible anti social, low socioeconomic and living standards area becomes a lot more pleasant. GOD FORBID 🙄
I don't think that's the issue. I think the issue is resources were pulled out of neighborhoods decades ago and for decades, like my family in South Philly, they wanted reform and change to their neighborhoods but got nothing from the city. But once developers target a location like South Philly the goal isn't to help the ppl there but to price them out and then all of sudden the city has money to pour into these neighborhoods. My family was fighting with the city since the 70s for reform in South and never got it. Now, the neighborhood has all types of resources, but property also cost about a million bucks plus. Working class ppl get nothing but the shaft in this country. Fun Note: My grandmother got priced out of her home and her beloved South Philly, her thank you for fighting for her community for decades. That's the real issue.
Are NIMBYs and the Anti-gentrification crowd two sides of the same coin? Usually different backgrounds for the two groups, but at the heart of their arguments is wanting the neighborhoods to stay the same and villifying chang, right?
When we move out its racist. When we move in its racist.
So glad he's covering this, but it goes wayyyy deeper then this. I went to drexel and my friends lived on diamond street in the temple area. The fight in west philly with the UC town homes has been crazy but to see the sheer volume of development aroun north west and east of temple is downright insane. It's really a slow moving ethnic/class clensing. My friedns and i walked by this house that was all burnt up and we got to talking to these people. This woman jennifer bennetch and her family lived there. She told us about how the Philadelphia housing authority was corrupt. Thye basically wanted to eminent domain the whole block so that they could sell it to devleopers through tax sales. They would start citing poor residents for code violations. things like overgrown grass, and such. Eventually if enough of those citations piled up and went unpaid theyd sieze your house. Except Jen wasn't willing to move out and kept occupying her home. The PHA who basically have their own police force, would come around and harass them, try and cuase trouble and turn their few remainaing neighbors against them. It eventually ended with their home getting fire bombed by PHA. Jen would go on to do an occupy type protest out front of PHA headquarters. And when the BLM uprisings happened, alot of organizing went into occupying public land. Many many homeless poeple and activists occupied a park near the art musuem, they were building shelters, getting water, making food. it was amazing. And they did the same thing out front of the PHA headquarters. The hope was that, the orgnisers (jen being one of them) could get the city to agree to open up the waitlist for affordable housing and also find homes for every occupant at the homeless encampmants. many of whom had been evicted by PHA, and their police force. Eventually after many standoffs with police they came to an agreement. Athough this was done in secret, and without anything in writing (big mistake). the city agreed to form a land trust and place a home in it for each homeless occupant of the ecampments. in responce the camp would disband, which is exactly what happened, excep[t only a handfuyl 10-15 people actually got homes. It was a bait and switch. The moral of the story is PHA which is supposed to the city's agency that helps people find affordable housing is a military force used to evist poepl. and infact is one of the biggest single servers of evictions in the city. They do this to aqcuire property and then sell for cheap to developers, to fund their bugest. Developers then put in luxury apartmetns that only shitty rich kids and college professors can afford. It's destroying the city, to the point where even these college kids can't afford to the their anymore, but hey people moving from new york can afford it lol. And dont even get me started and drexel/Upenn and all the colleges part in this. Drexel is at this point more of a real-estate ponzy scheme then it is an instition for learning, and i mean that litterally, I'm not being hyperbolic. The great contradiction in this whole saga is that Philly has a huge homelessness problem, alot of poepl eliving on the streets and getting into crime, and yet there are thousands of homes being built. but the people who need those homes, and new jop opportunites, and educational opportunities are pushed out and displaced and priced out. Basically making a white flight in reverse, where wealtheir whiter people move in from the suburbs or from expensive cities like NY and start living cheap to them but is expensiuve the average philadelphian
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Great job brother. Your content will be just as popular if it's serious - you have a talent for journalism.
hes actually not that bright. it is not a "ponzi scheme". tax abatements are given so builders are incentivized to fix up these trash neighborhoods. Meanwhile Andrew makes probably $1M per year pandering to dumb people online
Gentrification is like the dumbest thing to be upset about and I’m flat broke and down own a home. Rich people are making druggies commit crimes on purpose to drive down value? What?! Or that’s just where druggies commit crimes. It only makes business sense that once no one wants to live or do business there you invest to clean it up and make it a better place for profit.
The shit is so sad. Appreciate you for shedding light
That tax abatement stuff I think is linked to Federal "Opportunity Zones". Basically the sweetest deal the federal government ever gave real estate investors in the last 20 years. But the catch is you gotta have a lot of cash on hand to even take advantage of the Opportunity Zones. And if you're a philly developer with connections to the right people in the city, you can make sure your "opportunity zone" investment stays well protected.
No Philly Had a 10 year tax abatement on all new Developments which was being phased out in 2020. Kensington and much of North Philadelphia is in a Keystone Opportunity Zone and Federal Opportunity Zone.
There is an argument that these houses will increase the tax revenue of the city improving the whole city for everyone.
Just to be clear, we're not complaining about property values increasing right?
Because urban regeneration is a bad thing? 🤣 You can't neglect your home entirely and then be pissed when you get turfed out and the area rejuvenated.
The issue when people talk about gentrification is current residents being displaced because in improvised areas, most people are renting and aren't homeowners. This is what people get caught up on, and we all would agree that we want urban development and people confuse it with other things. What people should be suggesting is that you should have pathways in place to help people that will get displaced by raising prices
"Urban Regeneration" is just a part of the "plan" though.
1. Let the streets go wild and real estate plummets.
2. "Urban Regeneration" which displaces the people who can't afford the "rejuvenated" prices.
3. Rent the properties out to potential homeowners at ridiculous price points that have to rent units because they're not building homes for sale even though they have the capitol to buy.
The homeless and drug addicts, don't just disappear, they just move the problem somewhere else.
Exactly
Holy shit you mean Philadelphia might be liveable, this is outrageous
I'm finishing up at Temple right now and you're exactly right. I'm an education major and I did one of my observations at Mastebaum which is a vocational school in what I would consider the "real" Kensington, meaning about a block from that spot under the L where you were at. Kids walk to school everyday passed people ODing and shooting up on the sidewalk. Every day I went to that practicum, I took bus 3 up Front St. and every day I saw people actively shooting up. On my last day there I saw an old man inject heroin/fentanyl into an old woman's neck and cover her with a blanket once she nodded off. If you walk 15 minutes south of there, you're in housing developments that I would struggle to afford on a teaching salary. People call it zombie land or the walking dead, and it is as bad or worse than what you're showing here. This kind of journalism is necessary, I hope in 10 years people will look back on how we treat our homeless and addicts with the horror, disgust, and guilt we deserve as a Philadelphia community and as Americans.
Why is gentrification perceived negatively? Despite the clear improvement of neighborhoods, the person seems discontent that the current state of the area includes safe bicycle rides, contrasting with their past experiences of being shot when they lived there. I find it confusing.
Thank u for new content
I was college-aged when the message I heard was "If you to Temple don't leave the campus." It wasn't really ever on my radar for college but a lot of friends went there and seemed like it worked out well for them so I wish I had given it a chance.
I hear ya. I went to WCU and visited some friends at Temple and really enjoyed the city vibe.
Nah, I just finished up my second semester at temple and it’s been getting dangerous even on campus. You’ve got highschool kids shooting at eachother across broad street. People in fresh grocer which a lot of temple students shop at threatening to shoot others over a simple argument. It’s wild
Never ever had a problem, anywhere in N philly, Kensington included in the 11 years I ran around out there. Anyone tries to eye you or gives you bad energy just start talking to yourself like "man I'm not letting that happen again they're not taking it away from me this time" or something to that affect and never had an issue after using a line like that and just stare straight ahead, lol. But really all the best people I met were in and from philly. I miss it there I left in 2021
@@LimoneneDaddy you might not of had issues but the issues still affect the students trying to get an education in north philly. You can’t really act unhinged to defend against stray bullets going into your apartment because someone decided to shoot up a little league football game next to campus
Moved to apart of Philly near Temple a year ago and seeing all these new places popping up in just that short amount of time is really insane. There's definitely an unspoken tension when I bike my way to work with the current residents. I have a studio apt in an old building and work with small business owners / entrepreneurs so I'm trying to help people that actually make the city what it is but I certainly feel uncomfortable with the rate that things are growing compared to people struggling outside at all times no matter what the weather is.
Ifvyou are not black you will face hate from the brainwashed zombies....
"they wanna ride their bicycles" = bad... "i got shot 15 times 8 years ago" = good... 75IQ max
he went to college
I lol'd at this.
you have the comprehension skills of a 3rd grader. I love irony so much.
@@Sevenly7all those words to say nothing? crab mentality loser
Also notice how for every single one of these guys it's "THEM", "CAUCASIANS", "THOSE PEOPLE".
Most Black people in America in 2023 are incredibly racist. They see everyone else as their race and judge everyone based entirely on what skin color they are.
Lesson here is. If you don't protect and maintain your property, they will take it. You didn't care about your community so why should we? Enjoy having nowhere to live because all you want is to act tough and cool.
Real talk and then they wanna play the victim
What people fail to understand about gentrification when they say “how is this bad?” is that the problems still exist for the people who live here, they’re just being swept under the rug or pushed elsewhere. Sooner rather than later, those people that lived in those communities will have nowhere to go. This is happening in Detroit. They literally cut off large portions of folks from direct access to the train line and are basically telling people who have lived there for generations that they are no longer part of the Detroit Metro area so they don’t even get to experience part of the “positive” changes happening in their own neighborhood after it happens. This doesn’t solve shit either it’s all cosmetic changes while the identity and essence of the neighborhood deteriorates.
I loved what you said. This just creates a deeper hole for themselves, because others wanted to have a more accommodating lifestyle for themselves..
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I lived in Philly since 08' and the problem is clear - only when investors swoop in will the city perform its duties to protect, serve, repair, and make resources readily available. There are countless community run organizations in Kensington seeking to compensate for the cities negligence. It''s sad. So many long time residents just want peace in the place they call home. Gentrification wouldn't be a problem if it served anyone but the wealthy.
OH MY GOD THEYRE TURNING PHILADELPHIA INTO AN ACTUAL CITY INSTEAD OF A GIANT GHETTO. HOW HORRIFIC 😱😱
Right?! My thoughts exactly. All these kind of black folks do is complain
I don’t know what the answer is but I moved out of Philly because walking down the street and almost getting stabbed is kinda not cool.
1:15 I'm white, I got a college degree, and for a while I was working in a kitchen for 11-15 an hour bro. It's not the color of your skin, it's your victim mentality. I was pissed, but I just realized I had to figure something out. I didn't just blame something external that isn't even true.
Allowing for more construction with less red tape will eventually provide affordable housing in cities across the US. People have come to realize the suburbs were a mistake for a lot of people because they just don’t want to live that way. The city is the economic center of the region, so suburbanites come in anyway and drive through neighborhoods as shortcuts in their giant SUVs. If more of the people that worked in Philly felt comfortable living in Philly (and it was affordable to do so), we could see so many improvements. Streets could be closed to traffic, trolley lines could be brought back, legit neighborhoods could reemerge with delis, tailors, actual stores instead of boutique hipster places. What the city needs is it to be easier to build a lot quickly. No more overpriced "luxury apartments" you cant overcharge for housing when there are new builds on every block.
i love the content, keep it up bro
No offense to that one guy that mentioned having a college degree, and I don't know him so I'm not trying to say something about his intelligence in specific (I don't think he's stupid), but having a college degree is not a sign of intelligence. Some of the stupidest people I've ever known have had college degrees, it's really not hard to get one, you just need money or the ability to take out a loan. You can scrape by and just get C's and they'll give you the degree as long as you have all of your credits and they have their money. I'd say there are certain degrees that require a good amount of intelligence, specifically in the realm of sciences and technology, but a lot of common degrees like psychology or business really don't require much intelligence to succeed in.
If someone gets a psychology or business degree and does not understand basic algebra, statistics and perhaps even a bit of technology usage...they probably got fleeced by a college lookin for that sweet, sweet student loan nectar.
For PoC in the US it is MUCH HARDER to gain a college degree.
Funny part is this is what happens to a lot of suburbs too, except they leave it to rot instead of come fix it up.
That's interesting. What is one such suburb where this happened?
Nah dawg they give white folks everything and make my monkey ass suffer 😭😭😭😢
kinloch STL is an interesting one to look into. @@stanzavik
Andrew would have benefitted from looking into the 10 year tax abatement and the mechanism of gentrification with someone who studies this.
Why are we always pretending black neighborhoods aren't dangerous
Happened and happening to a crazy extent in vancouver too
Oh so SodoSopa
Gentrify my hood- Your Old Droog 😂
Lived and worked up here for like 6 years. Shit is wild how quickly it's coming up. My mom grew up in Germantown and Kensington and she's fucking blown away how nice it is when she was part of the only poor white family on her blocks watching women get raped and shit on the street. Insane to go back when I'm around for holidays.
So what... is this just the opposite of white flight?
Dudes talking about gentrification like that’s now the whole world works. So over these reports
Good coverage
My dude this is everywhere.. Atlanta is doing it too...
I dont appreciate the conspiracy bent and vilification of development. Philly used to have 2+ million people, now has 1.6 million. We shouldnt have abandoned lots and all the crime but we are the poorest large US city. Only way to make the area nice again is to invest in it and that means upping the tax base, unless fed govt finally invests back in cities because Republicans in Harrisburg certainly wont. The video is literally showing that this works. York Dauphin station went from a place you get shot, to safe. People of all colors and incomes should have that comfort, thats the only negative here is that the benefits are not distributed equally.
I dont think the Kensington opiod epedimic is planned / conspiracy. Everyone knows Philly city govt is ineffective. I interned in city hall. There is corruption, but mostly these people just suck. No one is intentionally keeping the neighborhood saddled with drugs, it would just take a ton of resources and a unified vision - two things extremely hard to pull together in Philly.
Also for the record, I live right off Lehigh straddling the lines of these areas. The development he featured is decently close to K&A but its closer to Frankford ave which is trendy af. Theres a reason theyre building there and pricing it high.
Bottomline is, I want to see Philly improve and be more livable for all, but inequality will continue to be a part of the story without govt intervention and in the meantime we shouldnt straight up vilify those that are investing in these neighborhoods (should still be skeptical and regulate developers tho)
so you're mad the area is getting cleaned up?
"i'd rather get shot 15 times than have to see whitey ride a bike to work!"
@@trel9388At least he got shot by "a brotha". So it's okay.
But god help us if whitey raises the property value of my grandma's house.
It’s not getting cleaned up though they just keep relocating the problem
Wait til he realizes which ethnicity is behind these tactics and financial oppressions.
Oy vey
my high ass thought you were trying to pass them a roach 😂😂
Yoooo that joint was hard
Oh weird, getting rid of poor people reduces crime in an area. Who knew?
People don't like to hear it.
if its not about race then its the wrong answer
Gentrification in Richmond VA has been crazy to watch
I've down to K & A. An eye opening experience.
AYY PHILLY WYA 🧔🏿♂️
Keep it up man!
No let them zombies over run the community. Their way of life is what we strive for
I remember the meme of the white dude splashing water to a black kid saying go and be a 🇳🇪 somewhere else.
Currently homeless in Philly. I won't specifically say where the shelter I'm in is located but lets just say in the general Temple area. It's definitely fascinating seeing these new developments going all the way down Cecil. To some extent, I feel that the gentrification being performed in the Temple area in particular is a bit different than like typical yuppy gentrification--A large portion of Temple students are essentially going to rent out these rowhomes for the 4-8 years they're in schooling then dip out of Philly. It's kind of like a community in constant flux rather than the typical white replacement of black & brown areas.
Homeless yet you have time to watch and comment on this video. get a job
bummy take bro. you have time to comment as well, I know you don't have a job@@jerry4706
@@jerry4706you don’t know why he’s homeless so don’t say he’s lazy.
i am seeing this in rural Georgia. Apartments developed in the city cause more people to move out. Transplants from other cites who can afford to live in town come and fill up not only the apartments but also the suburbs. Im an hour away from the next major city and i cant afford a new house where I grew up bc more people are coming so they can commute an hour away.
WHEN IS THIS VID COMING OUT I NEED IT
those building spreads like legions. looks like that in hoboken and new brunswick and seems like it will sweep up all of hudson county
“They think we not stupid”
What happened in Maui is way darker and deeper..
Sodosopa at Oxford.
Why do we constantly talk about people coming into communities to make them better as a negative descriptor but don’t even have a word for when gangs or homeless drug addicts reshape the face of our cities in a negative way? I know it’s cus Andrew’s fan base is left leaning but how does this make sense
Exactly!
Bring from Philly and having ancestors from Philly I’m glad o didn’t get the patchy weird beard thing they got 😂
It’s rough all over dude.
Channel 5 is what Vice was trying to do but couldn't get out of its own way long enough to actually pull off.
Amazing cultural investigation you guys are doing!
feels similar to UCF in Orlando
Yeah man same story here. My parents went to temple in the 80s and growing up they would make it sound like a punishment to study and live there. Now it’s becoming a lot of Philly suburb kids 1st choice school.
Its funny how Philly locals smell BS 10 miles away
Scholars call this process “accumulation by dispossession”.
It's mid day and these people are available for an interview. Tells you everything you need to know lol common sense
There's no conspiracy going on here. Cheap land represents opportunity for investors. Where do you find cheap land in big cities? The hood.
The Boondocks episode where Grandpa opens a restaurant
well if these poor people cant take care of their own neighborhoods then someone else will🤷🏽♂️
My thoughts exactly! It is these bum blacks who don’t want to improve themselves and be better that are bringing our race down. If you wont adapt it is on you
Say what you want but Philly and Kensington in particular, much like Boston with Southie was mostly white irish immigrants originally. They were the largest ethnic group in Philadelphia for a long time so its kind of wild to hear people complain about gentrification when their own family's roots could run just as deep
Furious Styles was trying to tell us about this 30+ years ago
It is funny, Mantua is getting the same treatment because of Drexel and the University of Pennsylvania. There needs to be a way to fix up the houses that already exist because Philly has a lot of dilapidated homes. While not screwing over the people who still live in the area.