I remember being in 10th grade and out teacher took use to a museum that focused on Gentrification. I didn't understand what was going on before going to this museum, I watched small stores go away and replaced by (useless) Bars/Restaurants. Cheap Clothing stores replaced by 2nd hand stores 5x more expensive then the cheap stores. ALL my gaming shops shut down cause the rent was to much. Not to mention Children daycares, old churches , music shops that would play music and sell instruments for YEARS gone and replaced by over priced condos. Food has gone up , all of them turned into whole foods. Landlords refusing to fix the building or get rid of pest just so they can get the people to leave and sell the building.Heck even the corner stores I've grew up near are all gone and replaced with "organic" shops.I think the worst part is how entitled the people that move into these places are. They complained about AVE or Puerto Rico playing music and they've done that for YEARS. There's so much more I can list but this post would be a essay long. I honestly can't walk around my area and not feel disgusted and angry. What bothers me the most is that as a young adult who barley makes money as it is , people complain that millennials are lazy, we're not. We're just trapped in these areas what barely have jobs that each pay check is gone with just rent alone because of Gentrification.
One of the main reason this happening is as Blacks don't own land. 2 as soon as we get a couple dollars we move away. If everyone leaves who is left. We have to build up are community. Support Black Business. Just because you are poor doesn't mean you have to leave poorly. We as a people need to understand credit. We can't be 😨 to put our money together to buy property. Also it cost nothing to cut your grass plant flowers pick up trash. Take pride in your neighborhood.
When people keep saying "why didn't you buy?" Do you know how many road blocks are put up so that you can't buy? In Harlem there were brownstones and buildings supposedly put into subsidized lottery programs for purchase and large numbers of Harlemites signed up for them. But there was so many hoops to jump through and only a few benefited. Private auctions for developers where brownstones were sold for a few dollars, then flipped . For the rest of us these buildings were too expensive. People fail to accept that the displacement is socioeconomic now. Yes there are more people of color who may be able to afford the high rents, but why the need for displacement of people who've made these areas home? Why can they send a man to the Moon but not figure out how to have different socioeconomic groups live together? The fact is they really don't want to.
and what about redlining? that's only been officially illegal for a couple decades, but it basically was responsible for creating the segregated neighborhoods we all live in today. And even though it is technically illegal, people still do it today informally and find loopholes around it all the time.
Exactly too many hoops. Us black people blames our own for not buying as if it was so easy. They put so many restrictions making it hard to cross over to the other side. That’s what all these black politicians and civil rights leaders should be fighting for. The system made the hoods ghettos and dumping sites for drugs and now the same system wants to fill it up with their kind and push black people out.
>We as black people need to own, and stop renting. Its too late for that in nyc for blacks. Actually what black and hispanic people should have done was fight gentrification 10 years ago when it started to get rolling. But they didn't...they were sleeping and let it happen. They let these outsiders take over their neighborhood block by block and did nothing. So yea they didnt even have to own the places they lived in. They just had to stand up for themselves and the neighborhoods they lived in but they didnt. Instead they ran to the Bronx, or Pennsylvania, or down South, or some other cheaper area. And this is the result of all this. They let it happen
Josef9599 because it kills culture of the neighborhood it like a slap in the face to people who live in a neighborhood for over 20 years and now when new residents move in now they get all the good resources like better stores more police protection better schools and many more
@@iszyedwards9495 Those displaced residents could have prevented this by buying their homes. I never understood how someone could feel comfortable starting a family in a rented house or apartment.
My mom is puertorican. She told me a similar story, like the one at 3:25 it happened at Manhattan around the 2000s.The person showing the apartment was really friendly and nice but when my mom roommate arrived and the realtor saw that she was black the mood change and the realtor told my mom that she could get the apartment but only if she moved alone because "It was too risky allowing someone like your friend to move in the area" .....
It's over for majority of blacks, this is happening in the UK also in a slighty different way. Sold out by baby boomer generation, rented when they could have owned, they had more disposable income compared to today, they chose to be selfish, spend there money on things of no value, support racist arab store owners by making them wealthy and live in a neighborhood instead of a community. This is the result, poetry is not going to change anything, money, power, respect will.
Moral of story is be an owner. If you're an employee and not the boss you're subject to be laid-off. If you're renter and not land lord you may have to move.
Great comment annubis i agree completley. The easiest way to be incontrol of your own destiny is to be your own master. This vid seems racist and to portray this victim mentality. Like life just happend to them. My life is by design and hard work
J. Anubis and if you're an owner and they make property taxes unaffordable for you then you become a seller of that property you owned. Gentrification affects owners too....and BLACK PEOPLE are not people of color. People of color are other non whites.
@@gokarengo good effort and thanks for trying. But wouldn't those home owners selling that your talking about be selling in a great sellers market at inflated prices, thus positively effecting the sellers. The smart ones buy slightly further out for a cheaper price and wait for the expansion to hit again. Again this has nothing to do with whites and blacks but more a supply and demand/Income issue. But I'm glad that you portray the victim mentality. I honestly don't see the problem these renters have had years and years to buy their property, if they had they wouldn't be complaining they would be happy their house price doubled
So question to alll of you I’m blk and I love my blk people but where I live every time I talk into a black establishment. The unprofessionalism is off the walls, when it comes to greetings, comes to the food which is either great or yuck, I can keep going but am I the only one?
IT's a 2 way street. If we had bought into our communities and made them our neighborhoods then we wouldn't have the problem of gentrification. We would own it. And for others who like to use the excuse that because they move in that the neighborhood would be safe for kids; it was already safe. We kept it safe but we don't make the policies that dictate where the funding goes. because that's not where people's head were at. Should have been but they were. The civil rights era had nothing to do with this generation not paying attention to where we lived. If we loved it so much then we should have bought it. Every store should have been ours. Every place should have been ours. But some of us always run away from "the hood" instead of actually trying to revamp the hood. Even if you didn't live there your roots were there. There's plenty of blame to go around. Point is however, blame doesn't stop the money from buying out the neighborhoods. It doesn't stop the city council from the backdoor and frontdoor deals. Action makes things change. Malcolm X said you have to get mad to get things done. You can sit around and feel sorry all you like but no action is being taken. Complain all we like, they are still coming in because we let them. WE sold it to them. How many black real estate brokers made and make their name from the wealthy purchases they make. But they don't sell to us because we don't own. We've got to change that mindset of protesting and pool our money to start owning some S@#%$ other wise we are going to left behind. Again.
I see what you seeing for sure BUT purchasing homes wasn’t something taught, thought about, preached, and there could of been many road blócks to purchasing. Many.
At about 2:35. WHY was the landlord asking about the potential tenants race?! If he was really doing that, he's doing so illegally! You should report him! Asking about race in that manner has been illegal for about 50 years or more!
This is happening 50 miles north of NYC! All of the cities along the Hudson, the places these families fled to are undergoing the same process of gentrification. Beacon, Poughkeepsie... Etc.... I am now living in NC after growing up in Beacon, NY... We use to go to Brooklyn to just hang out and have fun... Its sad! I miss my home, but I cant afford it
People aren't moving for some "exotic nature"... It's property value. Buy the land and when the prices inevitably INCREASE with gentrification, you can take advantage of that as well. Just like the guy in the video did!!! He says he made them pay more for it cause if his mom.... That's good business AND revenge.
This is happening everywhere! I am not really sure of all of the reasons my people moved out of West Oakland, but I am thinking that some of the people sold out when the prices started to rise. And some died out and their children either sold out and moved away, or lost the places.
It's NOT personal it's strictly business! I OWN my two unit duplex and collecting a little passive income, and that's what the game is all about, OWNERSHIP!
Mugabe Bakulu my family bought a house in Washington DC 1988 and we still live here we are not going to sell it to the white man they keep making us offers but we wont give up
Brooklyn has been home to many cultures throughout history, don’t act like your people were the only ones there. Brooklyn was a European settled place until the mid 20th century. Besides every community has suffered displacement throughout history, this isn’t new or exclusive to yours.
I’m up in Beacon, NY Where rent was under $1000 a month /2Br apt today it’s $1800 It’s a SAD situation when you see a UHAUL truck sad to see old neighbors and friends moving
they think is somethins about race but its the reality blacks/latins tends more to do noise and go into crime, so its not something we judge they alone do that their majority is like that, im latin but i dont like noise and here where i live i have to be rich in order to have peace at home without stupid loud noise around, less educated people are the ones who doesnt respect doesnt know that theres other people around who doesnt want to hear thei stupid noise, but well... then they want us to respect them when they cant even shut ther noise
Fendi Monsta and who has all the money? white people so yes dumbass in a way it only does benefit white people and not the poc who have been living there for years who are now displaced because of gentrification.....
This is happening to capitals around the world. From New York to London , from Amsterdam to Paris and Brussels. The lower working class are being pushed out. The so called "higher paying" jobs require redicilous degrees and diplomas most people just dont have. It is an annihalation of the middle class.
@Dani Dani You actually think nurses are a part of the population that live in the gentrificated areas? 😂😂 They are also getting pushed out. As they are just middle class. Same thing with people behind youtube. RUclips is just entertainment , maybe in your narrow mind set it is more life changing. But if youtube ends today. The world will not feel a thing. If the garbage haulers , plumbers , electricians , builders , mecanics , truckers stop , now THAT will be a huge disaster. Those are just facts. Btw a serious medical degree will never be ridiculous. Dont gaslight please 😉
This is an incredible film. Im working towards a degree in social work currently and I'm hoping I can host some talks on social issues with the university social work union. Currently I'm living in Wilmington NC and even in the three years I've lived here, I've seen so, so many people pushed out of their communities here; if you know the history of Wilmington NC it's even more of an affront. I will absolutely be planning a talk on gentrification and showing this video to my classmates
I am AA and bought in Brooklyn when I was 26 years old while in college....could not afford other places.. Used my school loan money and no down payment... No one wanted those homes. They were cheap. About $300,000 for a 3 family 4 story brownstone... African Americans were not thinking and made some bad decisions. Goal is to own not rent.
Let's get real people buying ur place doesn't guarantee u won't get pushed out... How soon they forget "Fannie Mae" People loose their jobs... If u can't pay ur rent.. Due to unforseen circumstances. U can't pay mortgage... Then what
@@fayeandcharlieperkins4521 This is what I keep telling people there are so many people who want to move to NYC but there is not enough room. Right now I'm looking in East Flatbush, Brooklyn or Queens but it's extremely difficult.
@Janet Burrus Definitely the price! Right now I'm looking in to Irvington, New Jersey. It's not that far from New York City and I'll still be able to tell people truthfully that I live within the NYC Metropolitan Area. Not as Chic as living in Manhattan but you can still develop moderate levels of increased self esteem by being relatively close to the city.
As a minority The System is always stacked against you, but that's the America we live in. The sad reality is that you have to work twice as hard as your peers for the same opportunities and actually buy some property. Then and only then do you have rights....you can live there for generations. But if you rent all your life your never in control. Its hard for me to have sympathy for people who thought they could live in an area forever when you are just a renter. You are at the mercy of the owner. No matter how long you've rented, or "cultivated" the neighborhood. Now the banks and government policies not giving you loans is another argument, but we get it. The system is designed to keep black people oppressed. Poor schools, higher incarceration times for the same crimes, bank loans and job discrimination. But gentrification is something that you have see as a learning tool, and not as a victim. Its not easy, I know but its the truth. This is a clear sign that you should strive to own property, even if its in the hood. Then they cant buy or price you out. I bet 15 years ago you could own one of those flats for dirt cheap. Its in the hood but its yours. This video was well put together. You seem young enough. Buy some property. Even if its a shack.
View my documentary films about gentrification here on You Tube "Williamsburg Brooklyn then and now/My Mother and her friends" that was screened at the 2017 Williamsburg Film Festival. My original 20 min. version as well as the extended 40 min. version also my documentary film about Greenpoint Brooklyn "Here Goes The Neighborhood" all here on You Tube. Thank you.
I can see what he means when he said they don’t intend to displace people but it contradicts the statement when the video says that people have moved in because it is quote “safer” and “cooler” to live in.
Walking through a few neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma I had the thought that with just some scrubbing, some painting, and maybe the planting of a few shrubs a person could improve the property values in those neighborhoods. Maybe plant a few vegetables. Bring in a few sidewalk cafes, some art galleries, and some theaters. I think gays are in tune to this kind of neighborhood improvement. I've also thought of creating neighborhood/communes, where the neighborhood is involved in the local schools and medical care availability. One thing I heard that sounded positive to me was that some neighborhoods are being policed by law enforcement from within their own ethnic background. One of the problems with this would be that once a neighborhood started to improve bigger money would come in and buy up the property. Maybe they could use a system of contracts to get people to stay in these neighborhoods and not sell out to bigger money. Also, crime and drugs could derail such a scheme. A lot of these improvements wouldn't take that much money. I think gays are already into this kind of thing. The thing to do is create living arrangements where people can thrive.
The only color is of the money. It is natural to buy what you can afford and improve. Seeing an opportunity is what people are doing when they buy into these dilapidated areas. In 1977 Bushwick was looted and burned during the blackout. All that has happened is the area went full circle. If the people of this area want to break that cycle is be a property owner and not a renter.
What a great culture! I just passed through some gas station this morning where a great member of the community lit up some other bright guy of the same magnificent community.... Police and sheriff's vehicles all over the place, Yellow crime scene tape everywhere.... 3rd time it happens already in 2020 ... I am loving my neighbourhood without gentrification... Can't wait to see more of this awesome culture
Gentrification is going on here in Atlanta but it all good because this is Georgia, not California, NY, Arizona, etc. The black Culture runs deep down here. They want be able to push us that far. 💯💯
After finally retiring from the postal service in 2018 my life long dream of living in NYC is becoming increasingly less viable due to gentrification. It's a national outrage. Of course some high priced housing units should be built in NYC. However, a balance of middle and lower income housing should also be built so that everyone has a reasonable chance of living in the city. The reason why NYC led the nation in music, fashion, and cultural development during the 1980s was due to the city's tremendous ethnic and cultural diversity. Gentrification and cultural homogeneity is rapidly destroying the city's creative spirit. We desperately need politicians who will stand with the people and fight for affordable housing. As it stands now I might be able to live in Bronx or Queens with roommates. But if the housing crisis continues I may end up in Staten Island or New Jersey. Come on fellow New Yorkers and potential New Yorkers, let's fight for affordable housing in what still is the greatest city on the planet. By the way if Papoose ever leaves the city all Hope is lost.
This happened or is basically happening in Asbury Park, NJ. Im gonna call it as it is and say that large portions of these places are being gentrified by LGBT community. Whatever your opinions may be, it’s kicking out the majority black population and replacing it with gay people(whatever race they may be) and turning it into a safer community.
Gabriel Shiguemoto This is how it affects the people of color. It’s not a perspective! there are families suffering due to gentrification right now. This is also my experience, people like you don’t give a fuck unless it’s happening to you. People of color were refused loans to even purchase homes when it was affordable. A good side is what exactly all the black people being pushed out ?so white people can take over? Yes gentrification helps with rebuilding and making neighborhoods safer... but safer for who? The new residents ...? white people? People who make these comments saying there’s another side of the narrative only care for themselves . The same people don’t give a fuck about us. All these new comers are glorifying a neighborhood with black culture, just to come in and change it and complain.
Cola Sol people care more about their own communities, just like you care about your own community and no the others. If a white community was negatively affected by a disaster or an economic situation you wouldn’t care either.
What I've seen for myself was homeowners which were people of color btw selling out their property to new residents to move in, build or just own a house for cheaper than stablished neighborhoods. That's capitalism. The right to buy and sell freely. I guess it affects those who rent and it's though, that's why there are limitations on rent price. It's hard to side with people who judge and atack those looking for information.
There is only one solution to stop gentrification. It's ownership. Low income people must strive to save there money or even pool there money together and buy the property. If your renting you have no power.
One of the worst things about gentrification is the misplacement of families who have lived there for generations and the second is the Box store effect. Everything starts looking like a strip mall and the last -day care centers for poodles. Yuck. Yoga studios for cats and gluten free restaurants that only serve Fuji water. Help us God, I am glad America has its priorities straight.
If the people who have lived in those neighborhoods for decades have not been economically disadvantaged, if they had good jobs and so on, would those neighborhoods have had this dark history?
Omgggggggggg what is it coming too if we don't take pictures and record no one will remember 💔🤦🏽♀️🙏 I'm watching the video and I see the pizza shop across from KFC is where I fell in love SIDEST & CATHY
My grandma's house in New York was purchased for 40G, she sold it for almost 1million. They should just buy instead of rent. But couldn't believe how much those small houses increased, and all the blacks disappeared
Unfortunately, this film only wanted to tell one side. There are people of color who sold their old brownstones for a million dollars, who are now living in new $250,000 homes in North Carolina, Florida and Texas, with $750,000 left over to invest in rental property. They would tell you they're very happy about gentrification. But you didn't want to hear those stories. And from a larger perspective, people have always moved and neighborhoods have always been in transition as populations changed. There was a period of huge Irish and Italian immigration from 1880-1930. Then Jews in the 1920s-30s. There were millions of Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants in the 1950s & 60s, (portrayed in "West Side Story"). There has been mass Mexican immigration in the 1980s to today. The film pretends as if neighborhoods have always had some kind of frozen-in-place, static ethnic identities until whites left for the suburbs in the 1960s-70s, and they came back now. The reality, however, is constant change, albeit sometimes faster and sometimes slower. What's the bottom line? Someone has to move? I've moved lots of times in my life. Go back and visit, if you miss it that badly. Compared to real negative experiences in life, sickness, divorce, bankruptcy, death of a loved one, being falsely accused... moving isn't exactly the end of the world. I don't spend too much time worrying about people just because they had to move.
Brother Ted, this was well written and I couldn't agree with you more. I used to live in New York and moved to Georgia about 17 years ago. In the future, I look forward to returning and living in Brooklyn.
I don't think you understand what the word Gentrification means . Gentrification means the rich well to do upper middle class and rich people move into the areas that have decades of history and force the people out by raising the coast of living .
I always see it from the gentrifier point of view. I always think of it as a good thing. It is heartbreaking to see how these people had to leave from the places they call home. Every stories always have two sides. Thanks for this video.
Stfu you’re clearly not from NYC to even understand what gentrification has really done. This video doesn’t even get that far in depth on how it really affected us living here.
This story took me back to being a young child thank God i was never homeless but lord knows they tried. where I live now gentrification has made its mark and its very noticeable
Gentrification seems to be an excuse to blame other people for simply existing. No-one is to blame for people shopping for property. Supply and demand; if a lot of people are interested in the property it will have high value. Yeah, it stinks that they had to move, but it's not the white man's fault that the property is in high demand. It's literally a villainless "crime".
A short consideration from a gentrifier. Nobody moves to non-white areas because of the "local culture". Those who gentrify a certain area do that simply because it's the best they can afford with the income they got. I didn't moved to Stuyvesant because of the vibrancy of the local community, but simply because it was a place I could afford close enough to my job. Had I been better off, I'd have rent a penthouse close to the Lincoln Center and Central Park.
Gentrification seems to be an urban understanding of what many feel what over immigration into a nation feels like, not much different. We are all being gentrified.
And that image seen on TV was created and cultivated by black and ppl of color thats the point of what she is saying the image was created by those ppl that seemed so appealing to all
@@missjrobinson1106 People are moving to NY due to better job opportunities, NY is one of the world financial centres like London, Chicago, LA, Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow, Singapore, Tokyo or Seoul, if you can not use those opportunities, then you have nothing to do in New York, this is how capitalism works. You either find a good job in order to be capable of paying your rent or you move out to less costly areas, plain and simple. This world does not owe you anything, get an education and find a well-paid white collar job, or just establish your own business, that's how you are supposed to act in order to live where you want.
The culture of New York was created by Irish, Italian, Jewish, black, etc immigrants as well as the poor. If they wanted “better opportunities”, then why didn’t they bother to integrate themselves into the culture?
@@MIKENIKEanimation You act as if all of Brooklyn was black. There were so many white neighborhoods in Brooklyn through the 70s . 80s and 90s. They were a different tougher kind of white but they were very prominent.
What's the solution than? If you don't want to improve an area by having others mov in and invest (yes, it does increase costs as a result) then what would you like to happen? In the 1990s people complained that Washington DC with segregated and the lights were living in a nice area and blacks and the bad areas. Now it's about White moving in various people complain about.
Black people need to invest in there community by purchasing the property, so they can make the money from their property, decided who to rent to, while still maintaining resident in their neighborhood.
My uncle used to tell me about this issue for NYC years ago and I didn't understand. Now it's happening in TO and I completely understand. It's terrifying knowing that 90% condos in our city is owned by people in the east. For millions each unit. How can us millenials catch up?
Alish's Guide You can buy a nice 2 bedroom condo, for a mere 600,000$ in downtown TO. Those prices are going to come down, because of the supply, is becoming much greater then the demand. Asia is buying more properties in Vancouver then TO, plus TO has put a tax on foreign ownership, which I think is unjust.
It's not terrifying, it's exciting. 1. When "the people from the East" buy these condos, the previous owner who sold it became a millionnaire. 2. The new investors pay hefty property tax to the city of Toronto year in and year out. 3. You can catch up by starting small. Buy a small property that is abandoned or in very poor shape, renovate it and rent it or sell it for profit. Nobody is prohibited from participating in this trend.
What would have been more useful is to describe what a gentrifier is. I don’t think you can blame people who are the 2nd or 3rd owners of a newer condo. I also don’t think you can blame renters who move because Manhattan is too expensive. First wave of “gentrification” is always public sector workers and grad students, who are the working poor. If you want to blame someone, I would blame developers or unscrupulous owners who neglect a property to force it to be condemned and then sold. Everyone else is doing the best they can with the hand they were dealt. If you’re buying into a neighborhood from another owner of a newer/fixed up property, you’re not doing any additional harm as the building is already up.
I don't see anything wrong with a community becoming less crime ridden, less poverty ridden, more nice to look at, and more white. Only a racist would see that as a bad thing. 8:40 "there was always a large surge of just like white people getting off on first avenue" ...and that's a problem because...? 11:52 "there needs to be more investment in providing adequate information for the natives of any particular area, especially areas that are predominantly people of color." And "people of color" literally means "only people who are not white". So she doesn't just have native-group preference, if you're white you deserve worse treatment then everybody else. Now that's the most racist thing I've seen all day.
NYC. My grandparents used to sleep in Prospect Park. Now, I wouldn't go in there a minute after sun set. It was beautiful when it was white, it's a shit-hole now that it's black. Any questions? Do you see? Do you GET IT?
Barry Goldwater yea my great great grandparents were native Americans and then they got killed while living in there hut. Now I get a fine if I live in a hut. Do you get it??
Poor people know that if their building or neighborhood is in urban renewal rent will go up. They rather keep it down so they don't have to pay more in rent. The landowners know they are going to pay more in taxes so the raised rents.They try their best to upkeep the property and that requires the rent to go up. Like rent in Inglewood is around $1700 (it was $150 in 1971)while the rent in downtown Los Angeles is $3300 a month. With so much regulations it is slow to get new housing. Thats why there is 5000 homeless people. Also drugs and mental illness plays about 40% of them. When the government institutes a gov't program you have hired more govenment workers. You have to pay them a decent wage, promise them health benefits and a retirement. The govenment is expensive to have. People in general don't see that. So they continue to vote for more., Pretty soon there will not be enough rich people to pay. There will be hundreds maybe thousands of cities that will the way of Detroit. Trouble is the Federal Government want to get rid of the suburbs. They want 10,20,30 story, maybe lager appartment buildings. Di scourge developers from building out the the suburbs thru regulations especially in California.
Not all people were living crime bastards in the old neighborhoods. Some were actually trying to make a living, from operating a business, to group leaders helping the criminals stop what they are doing. But as soon as things went well for them. Gentrification, yuppies, hipsters whatever, came storming in, and practically threw the original people down the stairs back to step 1.
These neighborhoods were white for decades. The truth is that as minorities moved in, they became slums very quickly. What that woman says of Bushwick, millions of white people can say the same thing about many neighborhoods in Brooklyn that were once white.
James Matamoros they were slums before the black people moved in. Check out the history of Brownsville. These areas are always up for manipulation. If we take a macroscopic view of it neighborhoods always change thought history.
yall this comment section got me mad lol nice vid tho and s/o to the whole 5 of yall contributing to the conversation and I'm sorry i havent done so yet. I'm very new to this topic.
This is a misleading title. I do not call this gentrification. Gentrification is really about a blood transfusion involving owners. The pushing out of renters is something much worse. As owners you have a choice to stay. As renters your rights do not extend beyond the terms of a lease. Unscruplous landlords can alter the demographics of a neighborhood without any voice of the previous tenants.
I agree with the residents it really is not fair I don’t think those realtors have the right to do that these are nice hard working people who watch out for each other🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷❤️🖤💚
these people didn't give a shit about their neighborhood when they had the chance....this is progress...however affordable housing should be an important part of growth in the inner city....ethnic diversity and people who grew up in these hoods should have a place...that's what makes cities interesting.
Exactly the same thing happened and is happening in London tho its not about race like in US its a class thing poor or rich, getting rid of the poor that have been in the east end of London for generations who created the east end culture.
Honestly I do not have a say in this because I am not American. I have been living in the states for 10 years now. When I first came to the states, the hood I first lived in was just honestly fucking hell. I actually wanted to go back home because the living condition was such a shithole. Now I am driving in that area and I can not believe it now. The area has totally changed!! More cleaner and safer. And yes the prices are a bit higher.. but gosh it’s so that race based... smh. I honestly don’t know how to feel about it because I haven’t been affected by it personally to see so I can’t say it’s bad or good. Until then
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I remember being in 10th grade and out teacher took use to a museum that focused on Gentrification. I didn't understand what was going on before going to this museum, I watched small stores go away and replaced by (useless) Bars/Restaurants. Cheap Clothing stores replaced by 2nd hand stores 5x more expensive then the cheap stores. ALL my gaming shops shut down cause the rent was to much. Not to mention Children daycares, old churches , music shops that would play music and sell instruments for YEARS gone and replaced by over priced condos. Food has gone up , all of them turned into whole foods. Landlords refusing to fix the building or get rid of pest just so they can get the people to leave and sell the building.Heck even the corner stores I've grew up near are all gone and replaced with "organic" shops.I think the worst part is how entitled the people that move into these places are. They complained about AVE or Puerto Rico playing music and they've done that for YEARS. There's so much more I can list but this post would be a essay long. I honestly can't walk around my area and not feel disgusted and angry.
What bothers me the most is that as a young adult who barley makes money as it is , people complain that millennials are lazy, we're not. We're just trapped in these areas what barely have jobs that each pay check is gone with just rent alone because of Gentrification.
You are 💯 correct
One of the main reason this happening is as Blacks don't own land. 2 as soon as we get a couple dollars we move away. If everyone leaves who is left. We have to build up are community. Support Black Business. Just because you are poor doesn't mean you have to leave poorly. We as a people need to understand credit. We can't be 😨 to put our money together to buy property. Also it cost nothing to cut your grass plant flowers pick up trash. Take pride in your neighborhood.
When people keep saying "why didn't you buy?" Do you know how many road blocks are put up so that you can't buy? In Harlem there were brownstones and buildings supposedly put into subsidized lottery programs for purchase and large numbers of Harlemites signed up for them. But there was so many hoops to jump through and only a few benefited. Private auctions for developers where brownstones were sold for a few dollars, then flipped . For the rest of us these buildings were too expensive. People fail to accept that the displacement is socioeconomic now. Yes there are more people of color who may be able to afford the high rents, but why the need for displacement of people who've made these areas home? Why can they send a man to the Moon but not figure out how to have different socioeconomic groups live together? The fact is they really don't want to.
They don't tell that part tho
exactly but the whites aren’t ready to have that conversation
and what about redlining? that's only been officially illegal for a couple decades, but it basically was responsible for creating the segregated neighborhoods we all live in today. And even though it is technically illegal, people still do it today informally and find loopholes around it all the time.
I ''think'' this is where people like Al Sharpton and other leaders could have protested against and probably would have been able seal a fare deal.
Exactly too many hoops. Us black people blames our own for not buying as if it was so easy. They put so many restrictions making it hard to cross over to the other side. That’s what all these black politicians and civil rights leaders should be fighting for. The system made the hoods ghettos and dumping sites for drugs and now the same system wants to fill it up with their kind and push black people out.
RIP Brooklyn. It had a good run i remember when rent was only 400$ for a 2 bedroom in a matter of 19year its 7 time higher i can picture in 2040😱
We as black people need to own, and stop renting.
>We as black people need to own, and stop renting.
Its too late for that in nyc for blacks. Actually what black and hispanic people should have done was fight gentrification 10 years ago when it started to get rolling. But they didn't...they were sleeping and let it happen. They let these outsiders take over their neighborhood block by block and did nothing.
So yea they didnt even have to own the places they lived in. They just had to stand up for themselves and the neighborhoods they lived in but they didnt. Instead they ran to the Bronx, or Pennsylvania, or down South, or some other cheaper area. And this is the result of all this. They let it happen
How is this a bad thing? Many of these neighborhoods were crime ridden throughout the eighties and nineties.
Josef9599 because it kills culture of the neighborhood it like a slap in the face to people who live in a neighborhood for over 20 years and now when new residents move in now they get all the good resources like better stores more police protection better schools and many more
nbastar12223 how do u own in an industry that Clearly doesn't want u to..ie" redlining"
" GENTRIFICATION"
@@iszyedwards9495 Those displaced residents could have prevented this by buying their homes. I never understood how someone could feel comfortable starting a family in a rented house or apartment.
My mom is puertorican. She told me a similar story, like the one at 3:25 it happened at Manhattan around the 2000s.The person showing the apartment was really friendly and nice but when my mom roommate arrived and the realtor saw that she was black the mood change and the realtor told my mom that she could get the apartment but only if she moved alone because "It was too risky allowing someone like your friend to move in the area" .....
It's over for majority of blacks, this is happening in the UK also in a slighty different way. Sold out by baby boomer generation, rented when they could have owned, they had more disposable income compared to today, they chose to be selfish, spend there money on things of no value, support racist arab store owners by making them wealthy and live in a neighborhood instead of a community. This is the result, poetry is not going to change anything, money, power, respect will.
so true. I rather buy than rent if I can afford.
SHit in americans its the same thing we stay making the arabs rich but im not mad t them if we are not using our hoods thats what happen
Rubba Dubba Dubba Rubba Dubba Dubba
lemmieatit .....another great comment !
OMG IF THIS ISNT THE TRUTH IDK WHAT IT IS...
This was grest. I like how you rolled together poetry, personal accounts, and academic analysis.
Moral of story is be an owner. If you're an employee and not the boss you're subject to be laid-off. If you're renter and not land lord you may have to move.
Let's all be owners. Let's all be bosses. Lovely notion.
Great comment annubis i agree completley. The easiest way to be incontrol of your own destiny is to be your own master. This vid seems racist and to portray this victim mentality. Like life just happend to them. My life is by design and hard work
J. Anubis and if you're an owner and they make property taxes unaffordable for you then you become a seller of that property you owned. Gentrification affects owners too....and BLACK PEOPLE are not people of color. People of color are other non whites.
@@gokarengo good effort and thanks for trying. But wouldn't those home owners selling that your talking about be selling in a great sellers market at inflated prices, thus positively effecting the sellers. The smart ones buy slightly further out for a cheaper price and wait for the expansion to hit again. Again this has nothing to do with whites and blacks but more a supply and demand/Income issue. But I'm glad that you portray the victim mentality. I honestly don't see the problem these renters have had years and years to buy their property, if they had they wouldn't be complaining they would be happy their house price doubled
Ok so you got millions to spend on a building or house? Cause those are the prices here in nyc.
If Biggie Smalls came back to Bed Stuy today he would say "WTF"???
9:28 'You'll always come back here and support,' a non- black business. Which is why you no longer can afford to live there. 😩😂😭
Agreed. Blacks need to support black businesses.
We support all except black businesses.
ok i have never been inside a bodega in brooklyn that is owned by a black person yall blacks need to realize ur not the only minority
Lmao black is not the only minority
So question to alll of you I’m blk and I love my blk people but where I live every time I talk into a black establishment. The unprofessionalism is off the walls, when it comes to greetings, comes to the food which is either great or yuck, I can keep going but am I the only one?
Really a great short documentary, and it speaks to a lot of us who are currently experiencing this here in Brooklyn.
+JadeAshley94 Thank you! I really appreciate that
JadeAshley94 This is happening in every hood across America
You will be surprised just how great it is to raise children in the suburbs. No crime there.
IT's a 2 way street. If we had bought into our communities and made them our neighborhoods then we wouldn't have the problem of gentrification. We would own it. And for others who like to use the excuse that because they move in that the neighborhood would be safe for kids; it was already safe. We kept it safe but we don't make the policies that dictate where the funding goes. because that's not where people's head were at. Should have been but they were. The civil rights era had nothing to do with this generation not paying attention to where we lived. If we loved it so much then we should have bought it. Every store should have been ours. Every place should have been ours. But some of us always run away from "the hood" instead of actually trying to revamp the hood. Even if you didn't live there your roots were there. There's plenty of blame to go around. Point is however, blame doesn't stop the money from buying out the neighborhoods. It doesn't stop the city council from the backdoor and frontdoor deals. Action makes things change. Malcolm X said you have to get mad to get things done. You can sit around and feel sorry all you like but no action is being taken. Complain all we like, they are still coming in because we let them. WE sold it to them. How many black real estate brokers made and make their name from the wealthy purchases they make. But they don't sell to us because we don't own. We've got to change that mindset of protesting and pool our money to start owning some S@#%$ other wise we are going to left behind. Again.
Need more people like this guy.
I see what you seeing for sure BUT purchasing homes wasn’t something taught, thought about, preached, and there could of been many road blócks to purchasing.
Many.
At about 2:35. WHY was the landlord asking about the potential tenants race?! If he was really doing that, he's doing so illegally! You should report him! Asking about race in that manner has been illegal for about 50 years or more!
That was my reaction when I heard that. Someone needs to report this and stop this shit if this really happened
I doubt that actually happened
This is happening 50 miles north of NYC! All of the cities along the Hudson, the places these families fled to are undergoing the same process of gentrification. Beacon, Poughkeepsie... Etc.... I am now living in NC after growing up in Beacon, NY... We use to go to Brooklyn to just hang out and have fun... Its sad! I miss my home, but I cant afford it
Yupppp watching Peekskill be taken over now smh.
You could move to utica ny lol
People aren't moving for some "exotic nature"... It's property value. Buy the land and when the prices inevitably INCREASE with gentrification, you can take advantage of that as well. Just like the guy in the video did!!! He says he made them pay more for it cause if his mom.... That's good business AND revenge.
spot on
i stumbled upon this and it was super informational and eye opening, thank you
This is happening everywhere! I am not really sure of all of the reasons my people moved out of West Oakland, but I am thinking that some of the people sold out when the prices started to rise. And some died out and their children either sold out and moved away, or lost the places.
It's NOT personal it's strictly business! I OWN my two unit duplex and collecting a little passive income, and that's what the game is all about, OWNERSHIP!
Exactly!!! Good for you
#ADOS
Mugabe Bakulu my family bought a house in Washington DC 1988 and we still live here we are not going to sell it to the white man they keep making us offers but we wont give up
They don't get it until it's too late, and most never learn
I miss my Brooklyn, my Caribbean culture. They are displacing us and diminishing our culture😔
Brooklyn has been home to many cultures throughout history, don’t act like your people were the only ones there. Brooklyn was a European settled place until the mid 20th century. Besides every community has suffered displacement throughout history, this isn’t new or exclusive to yours.
Me too 💚
@@alexmoore9580 Amen!! I'm Puerto Rican and I couldn't agree more with what you said 2 years later!!
I’m up in Beacon, NY
Where rent was under $1000 a month /2Br apt
today it’s $1800
It’s a SAD situation when you see a UHAUL truck
sad to see old neighbors and friends moving
Beacon is especially bad
NYC was pretty messed up then. I do not get how safer and cleaner city is a bad thing.
they think is somethins about race but its the reality blacks/latins tends more to do noise and go into crime, so its not something we judge they alone do that their majority is like that, im latin but i dont like noise and here where i live i have to be rich in order to have peace at home without stupid loud noise around, less educated people are the ones who doesnt respect doesnt know that theres other people around who doesnt want to hear thei stupid noise, but well... then they want us to respect them when they cant even shut ther noise
Because it only benefits white people
Yugen Utopia it benefits people with money not white people that was a dumbass remark
Fendi Monsta and who has all the money? white people so yes dumbass in a way it only does benefit white people and not the poc who have been living there for years who are now displaced because of gentrification.....
@Beautiful Brown Amen.
Thank you sooo much for this truthe.
Thank you😢😢😞😞😱😱😠😤
Thank you for this documentary. This has been really helpful for me to understand gentrification better.
This is happening to capitals around the world. From New York to London , from Amsterdam to Paris and Brussels. The lower working class are being pushed out. The so called "higher paying" jobs require redicilous degrees and diplomas most people just dont have. It is an annihalation of the middle class.
@Dani Dani You actually think nurses are a part of the population that live in the gentrificated areas? 😂😂 They are also getting pushed out. As they are just middle class. Same thing with people behind youtube. RUclips is just entertainment , maybe in your narrow mind set it is more life changing. But if youtube ends today. The world will not feel a thing. If the garbage haulers , plumbers , electricians , builders , mecanics , truckers stop , now THAT will be a huge disaster. Those are just facts. Btw a serious medical degree will never be ridiculous. Dont gaslight please 😉
I enjoyed that, informative.
I well remember Williamsburg back in the day. 8:33 sums it all up.
This is an incredible film. Im working towards a degree in social work currently and I'm hoping I can host some talks on social issues with the university social work union. Currently I'm living in Wilmington NC and even in the three years I've lived here, I've seen so, so many people pushed out of their communities here; if you know the history of Wilmington NC it's even more of an affront. I will absolutely be planning a talk on gentrification and showing this video to my classmates
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this video is so important and beautiful. as a Brooklyn native i have lived this and i love you, thank you Onika
Powerful. Good job Nika
+Beauty By BritRene Thank you!
I am AA and bought in Brooklyn when I was 26 years old while in college....could not afford other places.. Used my school loan money and no down payment... No one wanted those homes. They were cheap. About $300,000 for a 3 family 4 story brownstone... African Americans were not thinking and made some bad decisions. Goal is to own not rent.
abifilo how much have you made from real estate
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Inner cities in Miami are being gentrified. So many vacant high priced condos, organic food places, high end stores etc.
Like Suggs says "why aren't you buying!'. What the hell. In Harlem and bklyn for years and never bought a home! Terrible
Let's get real people buying ur place doesn't guarantee u won't get pushed out... How soon they forget "Fannie Mae" People loose their jobs... If u can't pay ur rent.. Due to unforseen circumstances. U can't pay mortgage... Then what
@@fayeandcharlieperkins4521 then you don't own the place. Mortgage doesn't mean own.
@@fayeandcharlieperkins4521 This is what I keep telling people there are so many people who want to move to NYC but there is not enough room.
Right now I'm looking in East Flatbush, Brooklyn or Queens but it's extremely difficult.
@Janet Burrus Definitely the price! Right now I'm looking in to Irvington, New Jersey. It's not that far from New York City and I'll still be able to tell people truthfully that I live within the NYC Metropolitan Area.
Not as Chic as living in Manhattan but you can still develop moderate levels of increased self esteem by being relatively close to the city.
you are wrong some people cant buy
Bottom line: New York city has become, a segregated, over priced hell hole. 😳🤔🤗 PEACE
Brooklyn is mostly a Lombardi St. of San Franscisco of the East Coast.
The Song "Colors" - is it on RUclips? I cannot find it. It's so beautiful.
As a minority The System is always stacked against you, but that's the America we live in. The sad reality is that you have to work twice as hard as your peers for the same opportunities and actually buy some property. Then and only then do you have rights....you can live there for generations. But if you rent all your life your never in control. Its hard for me to have sympathy for people who thought they could live in an area forever when you are just a renter. You are at the mercy of the owner. No matter how long you've rented, or "cultivated" the neighborhood.
Now the banks and government policies not giving you loans is another argument, but we get it. The system is designed to keep black people oppressed. Poor schools, higher incarceration times for the same crimes, bank loans and job discrimination. But gentrification is something that you have see as a learning tool, and not as a victim. Its not easy, I know but its the truth. This is a clear sign that you should strive to own property, even if its in the hood. Then they cant buy or price you out. I bet 15 years ago you could own one of those flats for dirt cheap. Its in the hood but its yours. This video was well put together. You seem young enough. Buy some property. Even if its a shack.
Are people being forced out because their taxes are going up on the homes they own?
View my documentary films about gentrification here on You Tube "Williamsburg Brooklyn then and now/My Mother and her friends" that was screened at the 2017 Williamsburg Film Festival. My original 20 min. version as well as the extended 40 min. version also my documentary film about Greenpoint Brooklyn "Here Goes The Neighborhood" all here on You Tube. Thank you.
hey, this looks very nice, good job! very promising!
I can see what he means when he said they don’t intend to displace people but it contradicts the statement when the video says that people have moved in because it is quote “safer” and “cooler” to live in.
I really like the decor in that chicks home.
Walking through a few neighborhoods in Tulsa, Oklahoma I had the thought that with just some scrubbing, some painting, and maybe the planting of a few shrubs a person could improve the property values in those neighborhoods. Maybe plant a few vegetables. Bring in a few sidewalk cafes, some art galleries, and some theaters. I think gays are in tune to this kind of neighborhood improvement. I've also thought of creating neighborhood/communes, where the neighborhood is involved in the local schools and medical care availability. One thing I heard that sounded positive to me was that some neighborhoods are being policed by law enforcement from within their own ethnic background. One of the problems with this would be that once a neighborhood started to improve bigger money would come in and buy up the property. Maybe they could use a system of contracts to get people to stay in these neighborhoods and not sell out to bigger money. Also, crime and drugs could derail such a scheme. A lot of these improvements wouldn't take that much money. I think gays are already into this kind of thing. The thing to do is create living arrangements where people can thrive.
The only color is of the money. It is natural to buy what you can afford and improve. Seeing an opportunity is what people are doing when they buy into these dilapidated areas. In 1977 Bushwick was looted and burned during the blackout. All that has happened is the area went full circle. If the people of this area want to break that cycle is be a property owner and not a renter.
thank you for this
What a great culture! I just passed through some gas station this morning where a great member of the community lit up some other bright guy of the same magnificent community.... Police and sheriff's vehicles all over the place, Yellow crime scene tape everywhere.... 3rd time it happens already in 2020 ... I am loving my neighbourhood without gentrification... Can't wait to see more of this awesome culture
Lol that’s a way to put it
Gentrification is going on here in Atlanta but it all good because this is Georgia, not California, NY, Arizona, etc. The black Culture runs deep down here. They want be able to push us that far. 💯💯
After finally retiring from the postal service in 2018 my life long dream of living in NYC is becoming increasingly less viable due to gentrification. It's a national outrage. Of course some high priced housing units should be built in NYC. However, a balance of middle and lower income housing should also be built so that everyone has a reasonable chance of living in the city. The reason why NYC led the nation in music, fashion, and cultural development during the 1980s was due to the city's tremendous ethnic and cultural diversity. Gentrification and cultural homogeneity is rapidly destroying the city's creative spirit. We desperately
need politicians who will stand with the people and fight for affordable housing. As it stands now I might be able to live in Bronx or Queens with roommates. But if the housing crisis continues I may end up in Staten Island or New Jersey. Come on fellow New Yorkers and potential New Yorkers, let's fight for affordable housing in what still is the greatest city on the planet. By the way if Papoose ever leaves the city all Hope is lost.
This happened or is basically happening in Asbury Park, NJ. Im gonna call it as it is and say that large portions of these places are being gentrified by LGBT community. Whatever your opinions may be, it’s kicking out the majority black population and replacing it with gay people(whatever race they may be) and turning it into a safer community.
Interesting perspective, but I wish it had the other side narrative as well. Like anything else gentrification has a good side too.
Gabriel Shiguemoto This is how it affects the people of color. It’s not a perspective! there are families suffering due to gentrification right now. This is also my experience, people like you don’t give a fuck unless it’s happening to you. People of color were refused loans to even purchase homes when it was affordable. A good side is what exactly all the black people being pushed out ?so white people can take over? Yes gentrification helps with rebuilding and making neighborhoods safer... but safer for who? The new residents ...? white people? People who make these comments saying there’s another side of the narrative only care for themselves . The same people don’t give a fuck about us. All these new comers are glorifying a neighborhood with black culture, just to come in and change it and complain.
Cola Sol go off, sis.
Cola Sol people care more about their own communities, just like you care about your own community and no the others. If a white community was negatively affected by a disaster or an economic situation you wouldn’t care either.
What I've seen for myself was homeowners which were people of color btw selling out their property to new residents to move in, build or just own a house for cheaper than stablished neighborhoods. That's capitalism. The right to buy and sell freely. I guess it affects those who rent and it's though, that's why there are limitations on rent price. It's hard to side with people who judge and atack those looking for information.
That “good side” you’re talking about isn’t good for the existing community it’s for a bunch of wealthy investors to destroy our communities
There is only one solution to stop gentrification. It's ownership. Low income people must strive to save there money or even pool there money together and buy the property. If your renting you have no power.
Rest in peace NYC. It's been buried by gentrification.
One of the worst things about gentrification is the misplacement of families who have lived there for generations and the second is the Box store effect. Everything starts looking like a strip mall and the last -day care centers for poodles. Yuck. Yoga studios for cats and gluten free restaurants that only serve Fuji water. Help us God, I am glad America has its priorities straight.
If the people who have lived in those neighborhoods for decades have not been economically disadvantaged, if they had good jobs and so on, would those neighborhoods have had this dark history?
11:59 You guys still have $1 pizza? Lucky. Very interesting video as well.
John Simmons the dollar slice places are almost like a chain...there are actually a few chains of them and they started up about eight years ago.
Omgggggggggg what is it coming too if we don't take pictures and record no one will remember 💔🤦🏽♀️🙏
I'm watching the video and I see the pizza shop across from KFC is where I fell in love
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Their is always land to buy outside of the city, build a small home and grow a garden.
My grandma's house in New York was purchased for 40G, she sold it for almost 1million. They should just buy instead of rent. But couldn't believe how much those small houses increased, and all the blacks disappeared
Unfortunately, this film only wanted to tell one side. There are people of color who sold their old brownstones for a million dollars, who are now living in new $250,000 homes in North Carolina, Florida and Texas, with $750,000 left over to invest in rental property. They would tell you they're very happy about gentrification. But you didn't want to hear those stories.
And from a larger perspective, people have always moved and neighborhoods have always been in transition as populations changed. There was a period of huge Irish and Italian immigration from 1880-1930. Then Jews in the 1920s-30s. There were millions of Puerto Rican and Cuban immigrants in the 1950s & 60s, (portrayed in "West Side Story"). There has been mass Mexican immigration in the 1980s to today. The film pretends as if neighborhoods have always had some kind of frozen-in-place, static ethnic identities until whites left for the suburbs in the 1960s-70s, and they came back now. The reality, however, is constant change, albeit sometimes faster and sometimes slower.
What's the bottom line? Someone has to move? I've moved lots of times in my life. Go back and visit, if you miss it that badly. Compared to real negative experiences in life, sickness, divorce, bankruptcy, death of a loved one, being falsely accused... moving isn't exactly the end of the world. I don't spend too much time worrying about people just because they had to move.
Brother Ted, this was well written and I couldn't agree with you more. I used to live in New York and moved to Georgia about 17 years ago. In the future, I look forward to returning and living in Brooklyn.
This is why I told my mom ( when she dies , not to give me money) just don’t sell the house
I'm confused (not really), wasn't there black 'gentrification' of Brooklyn back in the 60's and 70's?
Mark Paren you used the term gentrification in quotations because you are aware you aren’t using the term correctly.
I don't think you understand what the word Gentrification means . Gentrification means the rich well to do upper middle class and rich people move into the areas that have decades of history and force the people out by raising the coast of living .
I always see it from the gentrifier point of view. I always think of it as a good thing.
It is heartbreaking to see how these people had to leave from the places they call home.
Every stories always have two sides. Thanks for this video.
Stfu you’re clearly not from NYC to even understand what gentrification has really done. This video doesn’t even get that far in depth on how it really affected us living here.
This story took me back to being a young child thank God i was never homeless but lord knows they tried. where I live now gentrification has made its mark and its very noticeable
Gentrification seems to be an excuse to blame other people for simply existing. No-one is to blame for people shopping for property. Supply and demand; if a lot of people are interested in the property it will have high value. Yeah, it stinks that they had to move, but it's not the white man's fault that the property is in high demand. It's literally a villainless "crime".
A short consideration from a gentrifier. Nobody moves to non-white areas because of the "local culture". Those who gentrify a certain area do that simply because it's the best they can afford with the income they got. I didn't moved to Stuyvesant because of the vibrancy of the local community, but simply because it was a place I could afford close enough to my job. Had I been better off, I'd have rent a penthouse close to the Lincoln Center and Central Park.
i'm black and i want to move there because of the local culture.
but i don't want to gentrify
Gentrification seems to be an urban understanding of what many feel what over immigration into a nation feels like, not much different. We are all being gentrified.
So-called “gentrification” is caused by bank loans, i.e., cheap and easy credit, but not one person in ten can explain how that happens.
They could have purchased property in the 90's. When it was cheap
Except you know... people of color werent allowed to purchase certain properties or businesses back then. Documented fact
I think the girl is mistaken. Nobody moves to NYC for the "culture POCs built". People want to move to NYC to live the city life they saw on TV.
And that image seen on TV was created and cultivated by black and ppl of color thats the point of what she is saying the image was created by those ppl that seemed so appealing to all
@@missjrobinson1106 People are moving to NY due to better job opportunities, NY is one of the world financial centres like London, Chicago, LA, Shanghai, Beijing, Moscow, Singapore, Tokyo or Seoul, if you can not use those opportunities, then you have nothing to do in New York, this is how capitalism works. You either find a good job in order to be capable of paying your rent or you move out to less costly areas, plain and simple. This world does not owe you anything, get an education and find a well-paid white collar job, or just establish your own business, that's how you are supposed to act in order to live where you want.
The culture of New York was created by Irish, Italian, Jewish, black, etc immigrants as well as the poor. If they wanted “better opportunities”, then why didn’t they bother to integrate themselves into the culture?
At one point Brooklyn was Irish then Italian Jewish black and now white just the way it is it's called progress
@@MIKENIKEanimation You act as if all of Brooklyn was black. There were so many white neighborhoods in Brooklyn through the 70s . 80s and 90s. They were a different tougher kind of white but they were very prominent.
at4:46 TIM EVANS was RIGHT ON POINT!👊👊👊👌
Very good
What's the solution than? If you don't want to improve an area by having others mov in and invest (yes, it does increase costs as a result) then what would you like to happen?
In the 1990s people complained that Washington DC with segregated and the lights were living in a nice area and blacks and the bad areas. Now it's about White moving in various people complain about.
Black people need to invest in there community by purchasing the property, so they can make the money from their property, decided who to rent to, while still maintaining resident in their neighborhood.
It's ok to improve neighbourhoods to lower crime, but definitely needs to be open to all people, giving equal opportunity to everyone to live there.
My uncle used to tell me about this issue for NYC years ago and I didn't understand. Now it's happening in TO and I completely understand. It's terrifying knowing that 90% condos in our city is owned by people in the east. For millions each unit. How can us millenials catch up?
Alish's Guide You can buy a nice 2 bedroom condo, for a mere 600,000$ in downtown TO. Those prices are going to come down, because of the supply, is becoming much greater then the demand. Asia is buying more properties in Vancouver then TO, plus TO has put a tax on foreign ownership, which I think is unjust.
It's not terrifying, it's exciting.
1. When "the people from the East" buy these condos, the previous owner who sold it became a millionnaire.
2. The new investors pay hefty property tax to the city of Toronto year in and year out.
3. You can catch up by starting small. Buy a small property that is abandoned or in very poor shape, renovate it and rent it or sell it for profit. Nobody is prohibited from participating in this trend.
Alisha's Guide You won't
sorry, but what city does TO stand for?
you can vote for someone whos not a globalist
Styling and profiling will not buy you anything, hard work and dedication to the only one YAHWEH.
What would have been more useful is to describe what a gentrifier is.
I don’t think you can blame people who are the 2nd or 3rd owners of a newer condo. I also don’t think you can blame renters who move because Manhattan is too expensive. First wave of “gentrification” is always public sector workers and grad students, who are the working poor.
If you want to blame someone, I would blame developers or unscrupulous owners who neglect a property to force it to be condemned and then sold. Everyone else is doing the best they can with the hand they were dealt. If you’re buying into a neighborhood from another owner of a newer/fixed up property, you’re not doing any additional harm as the building is already up.
I don't see anything wrong with a community becoming less crime ridden, less poverty ridden, more nice to look at, and more white. Only a racist would see that as a bad thing.
8:40 "there was always a large surge of just like white people getting off on first avenue"
...and that's a problem because...?
11:52 "there needs to be more investment in providing adequate information for the natives of any particular area, especially areas that are predominantly people of color." And "people of color" literally means "only people who are not white".
So she doesn't just have native-group preference, if you're white you deserve worse treatment then everybody else. Now that's the most racist thing I've seen all day.
NYC. My grandparents used to sleep in Prospect Park. Now, I wouldn't go in there a minute after sun set. It was beautiful when it was white, it's a shit-hole now that it's black. Any questions? Do you see? Do you GET IT?
Barry Goldwater yea my great great grandparents were native Americans and then they got killed while living in there hut. Now I get a fine if I live in a hut. Do you get it??
No i don’t get it? All I got from that statement is that you’re a racist?
Poor people know that if their building or neighborhood is in urban renewal rent will go up. They rather keep it down so they don't have to pay more in rent. The landowners know they are going to pay more in taxes so the raised rents.They try their best to upkeep the property and that requires the rent to go up. Like rent in Inglewood is around $1700 (it was $150 in 1971)while the rent in downtown Los Angeles is $3300 a month. With so much regulations it is slow to get new housing. Thats why there is 5000 homeless people. Also drugs and mental illness plays about 40% of them. When the government institutes a gov't program you have hired more govenment workers. You have to pay them a decent wage, promise them health benefits and a retirement. The govenment is expensive to have. People in general don't see that. So they continue to vote for more., Pretty soon there will not be enough rich people to pay. There will be hundreds maybe thousands of cities that will the way of Detroit. Trouble is the Federal Government want to get rid of the suburbs. They want 10,20,30 story, maybe lager appartment buildings. Di scourge developers from building out the the suburbs thru regulations especially in California.
Not all people were living crime bastards in the old neighborhoods. Some were actually trying to make a living, from operating a business, to group leaders helping the criminals stop what they are doing. But as soon as things went well for them. Gentrification, yuppies, hipsters whatever, came storming in, and practically threw the original people down the stairs back to step 1.
These neighborhoods were white for decades. The truth is that as minorities moved in, they became slums very quickly. What that woman says of Bushwick, millions of white people can say the same thing about many neighborhoods in Brooklyn that were once white.
James Matamoros they were slums before the black people moved in. Check out the history of Brownsville. These areas are always up for manipulation. If we take a macroscopic view of it neighborhoods always change thought history.
neigherhoods do always change, like now no problem
Only difference is whites chose to move out. Minorities are being forced to move out.
@Unkraut60 You go first :)
yall this comment section got me mad lol nice vid tho
and s/o to the whole 5 of yall contributing to the conversation and I'm sorry i havent done so yet. I'm very new to this topic.
This is a misleading title. I do not call this gentrification. Gentrification is really about a blood transfusion involving owners. The pushing out of renters is something much worse. As owners you have a choice to stay. As renters your rights do not extend beyond the terms of a lease. Unscruplous landlords can alter the demographics of a neighborhood without any voice of the previous tenants.
I agree with the residents it really is not fair I don’t think those realtors have the right to do that these are nice hard working people who watch out for each other🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷🇵🇷❤️🖤💚
Honestly everyone being rude can rethink your lives. Low lives. This documentary is the best thing I've ever seen.
Nadia Prise it’s a typical sob story that contains no constructive information.
You pretty and I like what you got to say
Buy a house instead of renting.
there is always alternatives ways to get money to own
Courtney OmegaDeLancy
thanks
Red lining is and was a thing.
@MargauMonteyRibera if you're homeless just buy a house 🤷♂️
Poly Mathing it Up. 💖💖💖💖. 🔥🔥
The same thing happening here in New Jersey all Spanish and black people are getting kicked Out of Hudson County, My beautiful Hudson County.
Gentrification is your grandma was lucky enough to get $750,000 for a house she paid $30,000 for.
Neanderthal
WE BETTER WAKE UP QUICK
these people didn't give a shit about their neighborhood when they had the chance....this is progress...however affordable housing should be an important part of growth in the inner city....ethnic diversity and people who grew up in these hoods should have a place...that's what makes cities interesting.
Who thought about the Huxtable Family?
This is called real estate
Exactly the same thing happened and is happening in London tho its not about race like in US its a class thing poor or rich, getting rid of the poor that have been in the east end of London for generations who created the east end culture.
What stands in the way of Black people actually becoming economic successful?
Bushwick is the new east village
Honestly I do not have a say in this because I am not American. I have been living in the states for 10 years now. When I first came to the states, the hood I first lived in was just honestly fucking hell. I actually wanted to go back home because the living condition was such a shithole. Now I am driving in that area and I can not believe it now. The area has totally changed!! More cleaner and safer. And yes the prices are a bit higher.. but gosh it’s so that race based... smh. I honestly don’t know how to feel about it because I haven’t been affected by it personally to see so I can’t say it’s bad or good. Until then
That was our fault! We allowed this