I’m tired of advertising. All of it. I don’t want any ads even for things I like. Even if I would 100% buy it. It’s INSANE that we just accept that people can throw a business flier in our face at any time of day in any setting. Aren’t you mad? Don’t you just want to go apeshit?
Fuck it, Urbanism hot take night, none of you bitches actually know what gentrification is
Those dilapidated warehouses being demolished and turned into a restaurant or an apartment complex is not gentrification
No, that man with a metrosexual haircut wearing airpods on the bus is not gentrifying your neighborhood, he is a person, not the American socio-economic landscape
They are incredibly cheap to build apartment buildings with the current building codes. They are called 5 over 1’s because they are 5 floors with wooden frames over a concrete base
Shout out to someone finally getting the point of this post
Corporate landlords raising rents to push out the local family owned grocery store because they know demand will be higher for a trendy coffeeshop now that a historical migrant neighborhood is getting popular with college students is gentrification. But the issue is the landlord raising rents, not the college students looking for a place they can afford to live. The college students would probably also like there to be a local grocery store that they can afford to buy stuff from. Putting the blame on the other working class people who are trying to scrape by and find a place they can afford is just buying the landlords excuses for why they’re raising rent. Gentrification is driven first and foremost by landlord and developer greed. The people moving to find a place they can afford to live are just the consequences of allowing market logic to manage our housing, they’ll be pushed out just the same when those landlords decide the neighborhood is in demand enough that they can raise the rents to target tech professionals instead.
