I despise all this gentrification going on in Philly on every level. I went to school at FLC. Use to take the 61 down Ridge every day. I’m from Manayunk and Manayunk was one of the first neighborhoods to be gentrified in this recent era. One of the by products of the gentrification was people from the neighborhood ending up homeless sleeping in bandos in Manayunk. Their parents no longer lived in the neighborhood and they couldn’t afford to rent there. Apts that use to be $350-$375 a mo were $950-$975 a mo and upwards. That cancer quickly spread to any neighborhood in the city, mostly black but also white neighborhoods with an attractive location, for ex.. close to center city. Another by product is losing the history of the neighborhood, the character. The developers rip out the roots once they’ve invaded the area. A sense of community is no longer. The new people don’t know their neighbors, aren’t familiar with the area and probably won’t make much of an effort to change that. The purchase of their new home may come with a sense of entitlement though. So don’t be to surprised if the call the cops on you for something minor.. Gentrification blows..All day.
Just asking, what if we as black people cared more about home ownership black owned businesses as opposed to looking fly in our Air Jordans etc........Just something to think about...............I went to school with white guys/girls. They wore outdated clothing but by our senior year in high school those white guys/girls had cars one even had a motorcycle. but the black kids in my class were struggling even though most of us had jobs.
💯💯💯🤨🤨🤨I've been living around Here Since February 1994 We are being forced out As I type Now...But we Been renting since 1994 Never been late for rent etc but they want us Out to rebuild an get More mOney than We pay which is $1300 Now These People That Lived there when I first Moved there was Homeowners 💯💯💯💯 I watch Every last Homeowner Past away and they Grandchildren or Children Sold Immediately It was this lady older lady seen what was going on She told Me out Her Mouth I'm Never selling well She pasted they sold her property in 3.5 sec after her death the same for the King that always thru 4of July party for the children in FRANCISVILLE every year He past last yr unexpectedly From cancer and guess what his wife sold the property it was demolished with in a month after he passed So I say this to say they Sold everything Now they 😡 Mad All of this Community was black owned They Not telling that Part💯💯💯they SOLD OUT
That's a years long question and pertinent. However black folks had a lot to come up on after wearing gunny sacks in slavery....unable to leave the fields to bath (thus being called dirty....go figure). The transition to being "respectable " stuck. Just my small necessary insertion.
@Thrillsteel - This is my biggest beef with our people. Generational wealth is achieved a lot of times through homeownership. I purchased a home in Brewerytown in North Philly recently and most of the cats on the block are renters, and you can just tell the mentality. They probably been in the neighborhood most of their lives and won't have anything to show for it once more and more people like me move in and help bring up the property values by purchasing. The lady in this video who lived in Francisville for 50 years in that house, and rented the entire time is disheartening. Imagine had she purchased and was able to recoup that money she put in and way more through equity? She'd be able to get that equity out that may be an excess of hundreds of thousands!! It's sad how a lot of us are conditioned to be renters. We should gentrify our own neighborhoods. Gentrification doesn't have to be because whites move into our neighborhoods. Our people like us moving into these neighborhoods and purchasing also drives up the value because we will have a different mentality in the upkeep of our neighborhoods as owners. Great point, bro.
As a expat Philadelphian I still visit my old hood all the time..My old neighborhood has changed a lot and has literally become an appendage of Disneyland on the Schuylkill. It was Irish but now Yuppieville, I get it completely!
Francisville like many other black and Latino neighborhoods are examples of not waiting on the government to help out and holding local officials accountable. When the crack epidemic hit hard they came up with the war on drugs which did nothing to the amount of drugs that were coming into the neighborhoods. Instead gave harsh sentences to black and Latino men keeping them away from their families causing more issues. It’s so many layers to this but what our communities need to do is stick together, take care of your properties, and don’t sell. Keep the house in the family or rent it out. Now there’s the opioid epidemic and instead of criminalizing the addicted empathy is shown, we needed empathy too.
Much of mostly white working class to low income areas in South Philly, Fish town etc. are also gentrifying or now gentrified. Poor white areas in larger cities have actually been the most likely to gentrify in recent decades.
My neighborhood of 27 years, roxborough/manayunk, which was majority white(still is, just mostly yuppies instead of locals) and working/middle class neighborhood, has been completely turned over by gentrification. I'm a 5th generation native and probably will die here but it kills me to see the drastic changes(development every fucking where, 6/7 Catholic grade schools closed, revolving door of neighbors, so many 3,4,5,6th gen families & people pushed out, most residents having no interest in having children/families no parking bc every house has 4 adult tenants, etc, etc)
Francisvolle toughened me up..Only white.boy around..Corithian and Ogden..Then 20th and Girard..Life and death every day..Believe that! Big shout out to Lurch..Dunc..And the rest.of 20th street crew
I understand that we are getting Gentrified but a change has to start somewhere!! How long does a community have to be ran down until we want to see it getting rebuilt 😔...
They gave the whites people grants to get those homes in Franisville, they could have done the same for blacks to fix the neighborhood up, they held back taxes for 10 years for the whites, they could have gave that money to the black people who were already there, instead of ripping people away from there Love one's, I used to be able to drive through there after I moved and people would yell hello and you could get out your car to get a hug, it was beautiful , one day man will understand money and the way things look will never make you happy, its the JOY with in, its a community with Love and care I pray these people get a heart and fell shame but right now they don't, it's all about self, my whole thing is you people were already there many years ago and left because the blacks moved into the neighborhood, now your back, stop ripping people apart because your miserable!!!!😥😪
I’m born and raised in philly and I still can’t understand what is so bad about gentrification. Without it the neighborhood would STILL be riddled with empty lots and crime. People cry about how the “white people” are moving in and now all of a sudden the developers rushing to improve the city. So from my understanding would the neighborhood become safer and nicer if developer invested in the city with the same people living in it that is making it dangerous? I’m 100% for making the neighborhood nicer if that means raising taxes. The only possible outcome of a improved environment is less crime and more productive/ contributing citizens to the American economy.
And we as black ppl could have brought that empty lot and did more another generation would've did something with it so yes white ppl coming in like always and taking over don't nobody need no clean ups we can do that ourselves
@@drwalka10 I don't care who's it was before because before them it was the native Americans land so really I don't care we made it what it was and we need to keep it that way the same way they don't care to push us out say way I don't care who had it before we got here
You sound young privileged and white Black people got civil rights in 1964 I am 65 I remember Jim crow my grandmother her grandfather was a slave. White people in This country have a big head start These same neighborhoods were redlined 50 years ago Google redlining The hood was destroyed by crack and aids and hip hop Then gentrification started. Do your homework study history.
Alot of the old and funky buildings were remodeled or replaced with buildings of the Eurotrash Moderne style. The developers spearheading the gentrification are large out of town corporations,like Extell,Heritage,Toll Brothers, and others. I still visit my neighborhood in Southwest Center City but I can’t afford to live there.
❤I think it is a good idea I do in New York too. I mean if you live in housing and you are constantly, the police are going to your apartment and they’re finding out selling drugs and somebody was the shadow killed yeah they want you to leave. They want you to get out of here even though we feel like it’s so normal living in the projects about drugs but in reality it’s not supposed to you’re not supposed to have someone in your house has Felonise but they just passed. You know they don’t even really enforce the law so people forgot about it amen 🙏 ❤2024
Well, I do not want to hear about TOO MANY PRISONS !! Behave, go to school, get a job, join the military, and do what you are suppose to do as a person. STOP BEHAVING LIKE A FOOL. Until that happens----BUILD ADDITIONAL PRISONS !!
This makes no sense. The city left it alone for 50 years And it's getting worse every year! Should they wait until every house is abandoned Until trying to clean it up?
It's called the long term plan first you put drugs in the neighborhood and depleted and then redevelop it. Look at the lower parts of Kensington and fishtown port Richmond. They move the drugs up and clean the area and now houses are going for 300,000 and up
This is the way the system is designed install economical limitations and drugs create a monster then profit off of the rehabilitation. Will you control the economics the system can move you wherever they want you to be
I despise all this gentrification going on in Philly on every level.
I went to school at FLC. Use to take the 61 down Ridge every day. I’m from Manayunk and Manayunk was one of the first neighborhoods to be gentrified in this recent era. One of the by products of the gentrification was people from the neighborhood ending up homeless sleeping in bandos in Manayunk. Their parents no longer lived in the neighborhood and they couldn’t afford to rent there. Apts that use to be $350-$375 a mo were $950-$975 a mo and upwards.
That cancer quickly spread to any neighborhood in the city, mostly black but also white neighborhoods with an attractive location, for ex.. close to center city. Another by product is losing the history of the neighborhood, the character. The developers rip out the roots once they’ve invaded the area. A sense of community is no longer. The new people don’t know their neighbors, aren’t familiar with the area and probably won’t make much of an effort to change that. The purchase of
their new home may come with a sense of entitlement though. So don’t be to surprised if the call the cops on you for something minor..
Gentrification blows..All day.
That woman with 12 children is 81 years old?? I swear, I thought she was mid to late 50s. She looks great.
this is such a great documentary
"And then came the drugs" wow what a difference. This was excellent. That last young man was awesome.
7:48 May God rest Her Soul She passed away an they thinking about Selling her home also😡😡😡😡
Just asking, what if we as black people cared more about home ownership black owned businesses as opposed to looking fly in our Air Jordans etc........Just something to think about...............I went to school with white guys/girls. They wore outdated clothing but by our senior year in high school those white guys/girls had cars one even had a motorcycle. but the black kids in my class were struggling even though most of us had jobs.
💯💯💯🤨🤨🤨I've been living around Here Since February 1994 We are being forced out As I type Now...But we Been renting since 1994 Never been late for rent etc but they want us Out to rebuild an get More mOney than We pay which is $1300 Now These People That Lived there when I first Moved there was Homeowners 💯💯💯💯 I watch Every last Homeowner Past away and they Grandchildren or Children Sold Immediately It was this lady older lady seen what was going on She told Me out Her Mouth I'm Never selling well She pasted they sold her property in 3.5 sec after her death the same for the King that always thru 4of July party for the children in FRANCISVILLE every year He past last yr unexpectedly From cancer and guess what his wife sold the property it was demolished with in a month after he passed So I say this to say they Sold everything Now they 😡 Mad All of this Community was black owned They Not telling that Part💯💯💯they SOLD OUT
That's a years long question and pertinent. However black folks had a lot to come up on after wearing gunny sacks in slavery....unable to leave the fields to bath (thus being called dirty....go figure). The transition to being "respectable " stuck. Just my small necessary insertion.
@Thrillsteel - This is my biggest beef with our people. Generational wealth is achieved a lot of times through homeownership.
I purchased a home in Brewerytown in North Philly recently and most of the cats on the block are renters, and you can just tell the mentality. They probably been in the neighborhood most of their lives and won't have anything to show for it once more and more people like me move in and help bring up the property values by purchasing.
The lady in this video who lived in Francisville for 50 years in that house, and rented the entire time is disheartening. Imagine had she purchased and was able to recoup that money she put in and way more through equity?
She'd be able to get that equity out that may be an excess of hundreds of thousands!!
It's sad how a lot of us are conditioned to be renters. We should gentrify our own neighborhoods. Gentrification doesn't have to be because whites move into our neighborhoods.
Our people like us moving into these neighborhoods and purchasing also drives up the value because we will have a different mentality in the upkeep of our neighborhoods as owners.
Great point, bro.
Rest In Peace Grandmom Ruby Sanders ❤ Miss you so much. 1935-2023
I grew up in Francisville and to go back and visit the neighborhood now it's unrecognizable.
Yes less crime
Shyne Po nah man they stealing the “culture” of the city
@@shynepo6296 your a horrible human being stealing people neighborhood all of you should be ashamed 😖
@@benjamintorres9211 culture of single mommas and homicide? Yeah fuck that culture
As a expat Philadelphian I still visit my old hood all the time..My old neighborhood has changed a lot and has literally become an appendage of Disneyland on the Schuylkill. It was Irish but now Yuppieville, I get it completely!
Only watching this bc uzi is from francisville
Yes
@@wakeupdez6480 shut up kid!
@@atomic_guy3528 nigga you good??
Francisville like many other black and Latino neighborhoods are examples of not waiting on the government to help out and holding local officials accountable. When the crack epidemic hit hard they came up with the war on drugs which did nothing to the amount of drugs that were coming into the neighborhoods. Instead gave harsh sentences to black and Latino men keeping them away from their families causing more issues. It’s so many layers to this but what our communities need to do is stick together, take care of your properties, and don’t sell. Keep the house in the family or rent it out. Now there’s the opioid epidemic and instead of criminalizing the addicted empathy is shown, we needed empathy too.
People with money in this city don’t care what their doing to communities and it’s sad too see
It's true. We don't. Your problems are your problems
Much of mostly white working class to low income areas in South Philly, Fish town etc. are also gentrifying or now gentrified. Poor white areas in larger cities have actually been the most likely to gentrify in recent decades.
My neighborhood of 27 years, roxborough/manayunk, which was majority white(still is, just mostly yuppies instead of locals) and working/middle class neighborhood, has been completely turned over by gentrification. I'm a 5th generation native and probably will die here but it kills me to see the drastic changes(development every fucking where, 6/7 Catholic grade schools closed, revolving door of neighbors, so many 3,4,5,6th gen families & people pushed out, most residents having no interest in having children/families no parking bc every house has 4 adult tenants, etc, etc)
These houses are more like $400,000 now.
Are u serious even 1 family houses
Grew up in this area it's totally different now.
Francisvolle toughened me up..Only white.boy around..Corithian and Ogden..Then 20th and Girard..Life and death every day..Believe that! Big shout out to Lurch..Dunc..And the rest.of 20th street crew
And now I'm a.biker LEGEND known around the.country..Enemies.cant kill me cause.they dont.know..lol
I understand that we are getting Gentrified but a change has to start somewhere!! How long does a community have to be ran down until we want to see it getting rebuilt 😔...
They gave the whites people grants to get those homes in Franisville, they could have done the same for blacks to fix the neighborhood up, they held back taxes for 10 years for the whites, they could have gave that money to the black people who were already there, instead of ripping people away from there Love one's, I used to be able to drive through there after I moved and people would yell hello and you could get out your car to get a hug, it was beautiful , one day man will understand money and the way things look will never make you happy, its the JOY with in, its a community with Love and care I pray these people get a heart and fell shame but right now they don't, it's all about self, my whole thing is you people were already there many years ago and left because the blacks moved into the neighborhood, now your back, stop ripping people apart because your miserable!!!!😥😪
U dont want the neighborhood fixed dawg ... that's going to increase rents
Let’s be honest, black people would just tear it down
I’m born and raised in philly and I still can’t understand what is so bad about gentrification. Without it the neighborhood would STILL be riddled with empty lots and crime. People cry about how the “white people” are moving in and now all of a sudden the developers rushing to improve the city. So from my understanding would the neighborhood become safer and nicer if developer invested in the city with the same people living in it that is making it dangerous? I’m 100% for making the neighborhood nicer if that means raising taxes. The only possible outcome of a improved environment is less crime and more productive/ contributing citizens to the American economy.
100% agree
And we as black ppl could have brought that empty lot and did more another generation would've did something with it so yes white ppl coming in like always and taking over don't nobody need no clean ups we can do that ourselves
@@chynialileaks3335 IT WAS WHITE PEOPLE'S NEIGHBORHOOD BEFORE WE CAME AFTER SLAVERY. WE TOOK OVER THEY SHIT
@@drwalka10 I don't care who's it was before because before them it was the native Americans land so really I don't care we made it what it was and we need to keep it that way the same way they don't care to push us out say way I don't care who had it before we got here
You sound young privileged and white
Black people got civil rights in 1964
I am 65 I remember
Jim crow my grandmother her grandfather was a slave. White people in
This country have a big head start
These same neighborhoods were redlined 50 years ago
Google redlining
The hood was destroyed by crack and aids and hip hop
Then gentrification started. Do your homework study history.
Alot of the old and funky buildings were remodeled or replaced with buildings of the Eurotrash Moderne style. The developers spearheading the gentrification are large out of town corporations,like Extell,Heritage,Toll Brothers, and others. I still visit my neighborhood in Southwest Center City but I can’t afford to live there.
JUST SAY NO TO DRUGS 2024 !!!
This was good should be on Netflix or Amazon Prime
❤I think it is a good idea I do in New York too. I mean if you live in housing and you are constantly, the police are going to your apartment and they’re finding out selling drugs and somebody was the shadow killed yeah they want you to leave. They want you to get out of here even though we feel like it’s so normal living in the projects about drugs but in reality it’s not supposed to you’re not supposed to have someone in your house has Felonise but they just passed. You know they don’t even really enforce the law so people forgot about it amen 🙏 ❤2024
Well, I do not want to hear about TOO MANY PRISONS !! Behave, go to school, get a job, join the military, and do what you are suppose to do as a person. STOP BEHAVING LIKE A FOOL. Until that happens----BUILD ADDITIONAL PRISONS !!
This makes no sense. The city left it alone for 50 years And it's getting worse every year! Should they wait until every house is abandoned Until trying to clean it up?
It's called the long term plan first you put drugs in the neighborhood and depleted and then redevelop it. Look at the lower parts of Kensington and fishtown port Richmond. They move the drugs up and clean the area and now houses are going for 300,000 and up
Your welcome
Shoutout Lil Uzi
It is simple. Don't want black men going to prison? Don't commit crimes. Break the law go to jail. Simple
No
Bet you feel real smart huh
@@sarcrazy530 very smart
That gentrification coin has two sides
This is the way the system is designed install economical limitations and drugs create a monster then profit off of the rehabilitation. Will you control the economics the system can move you wherever they want you to be
She didn’t buy a house?
The good old usa. Get the money no matter what you gotta do. Thats the wealthy for you.
Highland lowland s/o daville
Cheap slave labor......no! It was free labor.
Somebody had to clean that neighborhood up lol
Not just housing
Try being a black man
Working
In corporate
cry more
Started with the welfare and the government kicking the father out of the home!!!
liesssss
12 children God bless you. My grandma from Philly had 13. Wow