Interesting Part in "Gentrification: Progress or Destruction?"

What are your thoughts after reading "Gentrification: Progress or Destruction?" Which part was interesting and why? 

Here is a sample response:

After reading the transcript from the NPR News debate, “Gentrification: Progress or Destruction?,” I was not surprised to discover about the negative experiences people like John Murph or Jacy Webster had with the gentrification of their own neighborhoods. From this reading, I grew convinced in my perception of the topic as one being out of balance in its practicality. Jobs demand grows and new businesses are born. Gentrification takes place and promises good. High income families and individuals move into cities and neighborhoods out of convenience and for their investments’ sake. The neighborhoods and cities are revitalized economically and socially. Long-term and low income residents are pushed out and left with inconvenient, poor choices. And the cycle continues for the most part. Once more, in order for gentrification to be successful, it’s necessary it takes into consideration both new and old residents within a neighborhood or city. Efforts, changes in the real-time process, new laws and considerations must be made to ensure all parties’ benefit and well-being.

          One aspect I found quite interesting in the reading is the fact that both Murph and Webster felt they were being displaced emotionally and socially from their communities when gentrification took place. In Murph’s case, he was perceived as part of the ones who gentrified the neighborhood, and therefore was treated as an outsider from long-term residents. In Webster’s case, new residents were so immersed and distracted in their own realities that they forgot and even belittled their long-term and not so wealthy neighbors. In both cases, people were so focused on themselves, their interests, their feelings, their commodity, that they forgot to see their neighbor as a person. Either by looking at them as ‘intruders’ or ‘undesirable people’, they entered a virtual fight of “us and them” which detracted, and eventually marginalized the gentrification process. And if not regulated, will continue to do so.

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"Response to Reading #2." I would like you to pay attention to the racial dynamics of the residents in this article. You can also see the review of the article in a PowerPoint presentation”