The official, is Atlanta the black Mecca or is it Election thread. Edit:Congrats Atlanta!!
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Wink Beaufield
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None of those cities are majority black tho except for DC and they hanging on by a thread
One of the factors that keeps DC from going full cac is the fact that there are still plenty of solidly middle class black neighborhoods here that cacs wont buy into because they're not close to metro stations or Downtown. A cac would rather go to Bethesda or Arlington for a tree lined neighborhood instead of a spot like Penn Branch or Hillcrest here in DC.
Not as Black as it was in the 90s. City is like 50% Black.
I don't even think 1/2 of the total voting population will be out and about on election day.
What ever happened to Lee May?I’m from Decaturif they really wanna do better, they got a better chance in the burbs than Perry Homes bruh. Now we gon act like the PJ’s where it’s at after they get knocked down
You wanna go in on buying up there
Atlanta isn't be gentrified.This is why I say white people are the DEVIL!
They wanna run majority black cities like colonized plantations. Gentrify black folks the eff out, make it harder for black people to make a decent living, make it harder for black people to find employment, make black people turn to crime, so it' easier to lock black people up for slave labor purposes in jails and prisons....import a bunch of bland non-personality having white hipsters to move in and build a bunch of megacondos, organic food markets, and coffee shops and doggy day cares.
I was just talking to someone else about this. gentrification doesn't happen if your city still has a large number of vacant homes, and if there are multiple nearby areas with similarly priced homes.
Getting rid of projects and moving Section 8 to somewhere else isn't gentrification.
There are still less people in Atlanta now than there were in the 70s.
And employment has improved significantly in Atlanta.
if affluent people are replacing lower income people, thats the textbook definition of gentrification.
There has been Black flight to the suburbs.
"In the 2010 Census, Atlanta was recorded as the nation's fourth-largest majority-black city. It has long been known as a center of African-American political power, education, and culture, often called a black mecca.[96][97][98] African-American residents of Atlanta have followed whites to newer housing in the suburbs in the early 21st century. From 2000 to 2010, the city's black population decreased by 31,678 people, shrinking from 61.4% of the city's population in 2000 to 54.0% in 2010.[51]"
An increase in all demographics + a Black movement to the suburbs in small increments effects Black voting power and disconnects a lot of people from the city center. Same thing goes on here in Cleveland, and I know it happens in Chicago (though Black people are a minority out there).
I live in a majority Black city with a Black mayor, where the tow runner-up candidates were also Black and a good chunk of the city council is Black, as well as some of the nearby suburbs.Lets be honest with ourselves. Most people voting in this thread are living in places where white folks are the majority. Self reflect about where you live before clowning a city for electing a white mayor. That's so petty
Hacksaw Jim Thuggin
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No, its not.
The poor aren't being priced out due to limited housing, they're moving out.
Were affluent people to come into the area and raise the rental or tax rates, and force the poor away from the area as a whole, that would be gentrification.
The word "gentrification" has nearly become a buzzword because most instances it is used, it is being used incorrectly.
so what do you think the word gentrification means
Those people are just as bad
The pricing out of the poor (generally people of color, in the city center of an urban area), by affluent, generally young White urban professionals.
Examples: NYC, especially Brooklyn (Bed-Stuy, DUMBO) LA/SF especially in what were once dangerous areas, Silicon Valley, Seattle, Chicago in some areas, etc.
Places that people say its happening where it isn't: New Orleans, Atlanta, Houston, Dallas, Austin, Columbus, Brownsville. Brooklyn, etc.
There has to be the true forcing out of the neighborhood. Which is difficult, if not impossible when there is vacant housing or if the population has not reached housing capacity.
Atlanta has a growing yuppie population, but people are willingly moving to the suburbs and nearby Black cities, not being priced out.