Gentrification and Resistance

We see gentrification happening all around us. I watched a Ted Talks by Winifred Curran, where she explains her personal experiences with gentrification, and what can be done to help the situation. How communities need to come together and become as active as possible. To form groups to work on the problems together. To try and hire as many people whom are against gentrification and for the the current residents like they are neighbors. In various communities, residents are being forced to move away because "urban pioneers" are swooping in to make changes. They claim they are doing good, and saving these cities from things such as drug activity and more violent crimes. When in fact they are also furthering monopolization by taking away small businesses, turning affordable apartment buildings into more luxurious condominiums; turning a working-class society into their ideal middle or upper class communities. Doing things like bringing in charter schools, which bring funding away from public education, can really effect many more lives than they are supplying for. You take away all of these opportunities away from so many children and force adults out of work and their homes, many of which happen to be minorities; how can you expect more good then bad to come from it? All white suburbia is doing is attempting to push the problems away, and ignore them. We have done it for decades upon decades with racist agenda and ideologies. Just like in the Young article where the street children had only the contents of the outside world; they were being forced to the outskirts and away by the rest of their society as if they weren't just apart of it as the rest. Gentrification is doing the exact same thing all over the United States, and so many wonder why problems such as poverty and racism are still extremely prominent today. Everyone needs to start caring more about the whole, not the individual.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yj1H8Sdc8Sw&t=373s