Gentrification is the process of repairing and rebuilding homes and businesses in a deteriorating area, such as an urban neighborhood accompanied by an influx of middle-class or affluent people and that often results in the displacement of earlier, usually poorer residents. Dramatic changes are playing out across parts of urban America, making many neighborhoods hardly recognizable from a relatively short time ago. A new class of more affluent residents is moving into once underinvested and predominately-poor communities. Development has followed, typically accompanied by sharp increases in housing prices that can displace a neighborhood’s longtime residents. It’s a scenario known as gentrification, and one that presents a growing dilemma for policymakers.
Statistics
• According to citylab.com, on an article called, The Neighborhood That Went to War Against Gentrifiers states, “As cities nationwide struggle with issues of affordable housing, new development, and displacement, disputes over the effects of gentrification are common. What’s different about the battle in Boyle Heights is the protesters’ tactics.”
• Gentrification remains rare nationally. It did, however, greatly accelerate in many cities over the past decade. The following table summarizes the extent to
According to governing.com, the reason as to why this census is scripted as such is because, “These lower-income Census tracts experienced significant growth in both home values and educational attainment. To be eligible to gentrify, a tract's median household income and median home value needed to fall within the bottom 40th percentile of all tracts within a metro area at the beginning of the decade. Tracts considered to have gentrified recorded increases in the top third percentile for both inflation-adjusted median home values and percentage of adults with bachelors’ degrees.”
My Opinion
• I believe it has become a serious issue, especially here in the East Los Angeles area. Today, of about 100,000 residents, more than 90 percent are Latino. About one-third live in poverty, and about 17 percent are estimated to be undocumented immigrants. The community has one of the highest population densities in the city of Los Angeles and in Los Angeles County. Now, home prices in Boyle Heights are surging. This has delighted some families, who are eager to cash in and move away. Others in the area, which has a high proportion of renters, are wary. It has just become so serious that so people can’t even afford to live in a house that they’ve been living for years!
Stephanie Jacobo:(What do you notice everyday?)
I see this happening everyday, but what I have also noticed is that the art community has a lot to do with what’s going on in the city that I currently live in. Lots of “white hipters” are coming over to this ethnically populated area and are attempting it make it there own. However, I am not saying these individuals are not welcomed, in fact they are more than welcome, but the fact that they think they can change the culture surrounding this city is what is not okay.”
Carlos Contreras:(What have you noticed in your community?) ” You have white guys telling a brown guy from the projects what to do in the community he grew up in, its just not right man. This is what causes everything to become weird. Tension is everywhere now and it was caused by this issue unfortunately. And it’s only getting worse with time.”
Samantha Claro: (Are art galleries leaving the Boyle Heights area due to gentrification? What does this mean?)
“I've said this before, but the land Boyle Heights is on makes it too desirable to remain a working-class, immigrant neighborhood. Its proximity to Downtown and transit mean it's going to be gentrified whether they keep out art galleries or not.”
Resources:
https://www.governing.com/gov-data/los-angeles-gentrification-maps-demographic-data.html
https://www.citylab.com/equity/2017/03/the-neighborhood-that-went-to-war-against-gentrifiers/518181/
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