The Negative Implications of Gentrification
Read all reading and need to cited 5 readings.
1.“Study Finds Gentrification Disproportionately Affects Minorities”
https://news(dot)stanford(dot)edu/2020/12/01/gentrification-disproportionately-affects-minorities/ (Links to an external site.)
2.The Atlantic, “Gentrification and Its Discontents” https://www(dot)theatlantic(dot)com/magazine/archive/2010/06/gentrification-and-its-discontents/308092/ (Links to an external site.)
3.Kennedy, Maureen and Leonard, Paul, “Dealing with Neighborhood Change: A Primer on Gentrification and Policy Choices”, pp. 1-27 https://www(dot)policylink(dot)org/sites/default/files/DealingWithGentrification_final.pdf (Links to an external site.)
4.Harlem neighborhood plan https://nextcity(dot)org/features/view/east-harlem-neighborhood-plan-upzoning-affordable-housing (Links to an external site.)
5.Pace/NYC Bar, “The Role of Community Benefit Agreements in New York City’s Land Use Process” pp. 377-383. https://digitalcommons(dot)pace(dot)edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?referer=&httpsredir=1&article=1011&context=pelr (Links to an external site.)
Write: (not need to introduce and conclusions)
Do you feel gentrification is
(A)a normal part of urban economic development that does not require policy intervention or
(B) a negative result of investment in poor neighborhoods that should be mitigated by government?
Feel free to reference specific examples of neighborhood gentrification(from your experience in your home-city or somewhere else- preferred write china-chengdu or Shanghai )in your answer, and/or identify any policy ( at lease two) fixes that you feel should or should not be considered in response to threats ( at lease two threats )or signs of gentrification( at lease two gentrification).
The global economic growth characterized by increasing number of middle-income earners accounts for the equally emerging changes in the social setting of urban residential developments or residences. Precisely, gentrification or the replacement of lower income residences with the higher income or high-end residential places is on the riseCITATION Ken01 \p 1 \l 1033 (Kennedy 1). Though such developments reflect positive growth and development across the social, political, and economic domains, the unsanctioned urban economic developments undermine their perceived positive implications on society. In essence, gentrification is a negative result of investment in poor neighborhoods that should be mitigated by government to achieve the desired outcome in modern housing and planning.
The widespread replacement of low income residents due to the unsanctioned urban developments of their neighborhoods into high-income residences promotes socio-economic discrimination in the housing and planning sector. Such changes are characteristic of rising cost of living due to the raising of prices by the previously existing local business entities and thus prompting the low-income earners to move into poorer neighborhoods CITATION Sch101 \l 1033 (Schwarz). Additionally, the disproportionate migration of low income residents into poorer neighborhoods is further characterized by demographic discrepancies. According to Feder (2020), more members of the minority communities in the United States end up settling in poorer neighborhoods as they have fewer options compared to their counterparts from the White majority community.
Overcoming the negative implications of gentr...