Comments by "Darkpaw1" (@darkpaw1522) on "Gentrification Is Saving America" video.

If you bought a home in a place that needs gentrification in the first place you already screwed up. That's on you. Also if your home's neighborhood gets gentrified you can sell the house for far higher a price and use the extra capital to move. It's a win-win.
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As someone who has lived in the "hood" a lot of their life, I gladly welcome gentrification. I mean, what's the alternative? Keep it gang ridden and terrible looking all for the sake of of "preserving culture". Let's be real with ourselves.
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It raises the value of living there for people who can afford it. It's a good thing, just not for everyone.
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@tj7179 As I said, you're selling a home. Meaning you already own it. So you'll likely have the capital to move and/or a lot for a down payment.
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I've seen people deliberately limit their employment so they don't lose their stuff like section 8 and government aid. Such an easy system to abuse, and nobody is willing to admit it.
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@yougrant1980 Yeah, I have heard of it. It was a practice encouraged in theb1960s. But we're 60 years beyond that now. Not saying it's effects doesn't stand, but we're 2-3 generations of offspring past that. If all your family is still stuck there, that's an internal problem. Either way, that's all the more reason gentrification is needed. You live in a place that Redlining has allowed to fall into decline. Gentrification could restore its value, thus removing any stigma from your neighborhood in the first place. Either way it's win win. Unless you like dilapidated neighborhoods.
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If an environment improves, the taxes to maintain the environment improves. If taxes raise the mortgage/ rent worth is higher. For example, say a bad neighborhood gets a park built. That park was likely built by city taxes. Thus, the nearby owns now have to pay higher taxes to maintain it. If they don't then the park turns into a terrible place. If they do then the neighborhood improves at the cost of everyone. If they don't get the park then the neighborhood stays the same. Most bad neighborhoods tend to want nice things like clean streets, parks, policing, etc. So they get it. Thus the neighborhood improves. Leading to the homes being worth more, either by the bank or the owners. So two scenarios happen: The neighborhood rejects this plan and remains bad and cheap. Or they accept it and improve and gain value. If the latter you have gentrification. The people who raise their value along with the neighborhood's will grow in wealth. The ones that don't and remain the same will decline. If you decline the law of capitalism will expel you to a area of your means. The benefit and edge here is it happens slowly. You can either move before it happens, or after. You value either way. You can see it coming long before the effects become burdensome, no matter what your income is, home owner ir not. Either way, it HAS to happen. It's either that or reject it and remain terrible. A neighborhood cannot improve without investing months into it. And if it improves so does the value of everything in it. Want less drug dealers on the streets? That cost money? Less gangs? Money? Cleaner sidewalks? Money. Better schools? Money. Nothing comes for free. The only other solution outside government tax based aid is gated communities, which themselves cost money, it's why they're so expensive. Either way you have to invest in your neighborhood.
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C C Yeah, a lot of people don't seem to understand real estate. Or capitalism for that matter. A neighborhood cannot improve without money. Hence taxes. Taxes improve the area. Home owners can sell/rent higher because they're surrounding area is less bad; or they do to keep up with taxes. Boom, capitalism. Or you reject it. Don't invest in more policing, parks, cleaner streets, etc. Then watch as your neighborhood gets worst. This is why gentrification tends to raise cost. Because the maintenance to maintain the standard of living goes up. You can't get something from nothingn especially when that something you're improving needs a lot of effort, like crime ridden neighborhoods. The only exception to this are gated communities. Who are expensive because it takes money to maintain them. Either way, you need gentrification to happen. Because without it a neighborhood just stays in blight.
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@Nwkcurly Then go ahead and "keep it real " as much as you want. But you can't complain about the problems if you're the one perpetuating them. That's hypocrisy. I grew up in the hood myself. Screw "keeping it real". I worked too hard to end up back there. I'll enjoy my nice house, acre of land, with my wife and kids in this safe neighborhood.
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@Nwkcurly I never mentioned crime. Gentrification is inevitable if you want a neighborhood to improve. Whatever state of "keeping it real" is it isn't improving a neighborhood. I lived in the hood too. Areas that were gentrified were far better. Kids were happier, people had better jobs, there were less crime. Expensive? Yes. But you can't get something from nothing. While the places that pushed back gentrification were inevitably consolidated and became cheaper. Criminals moved in, and now it's essentially 3 kilometers of traps houses and welfare queens. You're young so you may not see the entire picture. But later on you'll get some ecomics class from your college. I mentioned it in a previous post but to keep it short:a neighborhood that improves is more valuable, thus raising property taxes, thus raises rent. If you ever want the "hood " to be an actual "neighborhood" you have to improve it. All that time and money has to come from somewhere, and the people in it have little of either. Gentrification is the only way. The only exception is if somehow a whole xommunity became wealthier simultaneously, thus freeing up time and money to invest in their neighborhood, which rarely happens especially in places near urban areas. Of course, you can reject gentrification all the same. My neighborhood did. Tried improving it themselves. And it's still the hood 20 years later, and far worst.
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@Nwkcurly Yeah, I don't want to be that guy that believes "because your young you don't know as much". I feel your experience gives you a lot of insite. I've been in similar shoes, probably worst. If it's anything I learned is a neighborhood are a product of it's collective. I'm sorry of your situation. Like I said, only way to keep up is for waged to increase. But business owners won't do that; they no obligation to. It's not gentrification's fault, it's a product of capitalism. Good thing is you're young. So you can get an education and leave your situation. Leave the hood and movie to a better neighborhood for your future. Don't end up like Nipsy Hustle and others who stayed there and either lost their lives or had their hard work stomped on. It's hard to see now but "keeping it real " doesn't mean anything. Your happiness and well being comes first. Don't fall into the same traps others did.
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David Gonzalez jr No individual alone is saying gentrification is needed. It's the neighborhood that's crying for it. Business owners, investors, people who actually own their homes. All these people benefit from a better neighborhood. Places that need change.
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David Gonzalez jr But that's the thing. At the end of the day landlords are bussiness owners too. They bought their home fair and square in hopes to turn a profit. It's part of their job and how they esrn an income. I'm not saying it's good for people to get evicted and left on the streets, but how would that be fair to the landlord? They have payments of their own they need to settle. What other solution could there be that wouldn't be unfair to the landlord? Then you have the situation we have now where evictions csn take months ahd people are squating in homes, while the landlord foots the bills. The rent laws are undeniably in favor of renters. I'm not saying that's bad or good. Just emphasising that landlords are businessmen. They invest and use their capital to make more money. It may not ever be fair, you are right. But until homes can be completely free this is the method that works, capitalism.
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David Gonzalez jr I can agree that. That's the fundamental truth I accepted long ago. Race aside (because I lived in poor white neighborhoods too) I found the best way out is money. Because if I learned anything js money solves a lot of problems. I find people with it are far less effected by issues like this as a whole. Not saying you need to be rich, more just not lower or working class; at least not as low as you have a means to move up the latter, so gentrification doesn't get you years later. That said, I'm not without sympathy. The poor, regardless of ill intent or not, seems to be pushed around by the system. There always is an outlier that may help one poor person, but hurt another. There never is a system that works for everyone, and never will be. So I choose to not be part of the poor. Because I lived in that situation before. I've been on both sides of gentrification, both the bad and good. And what I found is it's far better to have the ability not to be a part of it at all.
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@godofthisshit I’ll have that over hearing police sirens every night. And that’s barely even the surface. Way better than staying in the hood because you’re afraid of mortgages.
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@godofthisshit You’re inflection is on a different topic altogether. You’re basing your argument on individualism, not the neighborhood itself. In short, how would keeping your neighborhood the same helped it progress. See my point?
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@Badass Beaver If you have the solution then give it. Trust gentrification is the only way. If tyere were a better solution we'd be doing it.
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@Badass Beaver All that stuff improves the neighborhood, driving up the worth of nearby homes. Which then raises rent and housing costs. It's how real estate values work. You know the phrase " location, location, location ". This is not even mentioning relative property taxes. You just described gentrification in a nutshell. All you'd do is create the exact problem you wish to solve with your solution. This proves no matter what gentrification is the answer. It's either that or the neighborhoods remains at risk of themselves. Trust if there was simpler solutions they'd had been done already.
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@shaddythewiz3836 This is very true. I grew up in the hood most of my life as a young adult. Everything from bad schools, bad parents, and social pariah keeps you down. People there put value in being what wr called "hood rich". Getting section 8, new Tims, a rolex watch, etc. People there only have dreams, so they live of them and imitate the celebrities on TV. Needless to say I hated it. It's why I joined the military and left. That and my abusive mother. I wish my neighborhood would get gentrified. There's abandoned crack den buildings with graffiti on them, a lot of worn down buildings in a few places, and the crime all but runs the streets. And it's not like a "community" isn't trying. My grandmother has been part of one for decades. I remember when they fixed up a park from where she lives in the 2000s. The park was made gang territory in a couple weeks. More bad than good comes from efforts there by far. The only true cure for places like this is gentrification.
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@Badass Beaver Hmm... I might look into that. I enjoy a good debate.
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@Nwkcurly Good point. All I'm saying is you're too good to be living in the hood. I seen the hood hurt people like you. I don't want to see you become a target because you're doing well for yourself. Move out of the hood. You seem like a great guy. You deserve better.
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