The Official Los Angeles (County) Discussion Thread

[BigMan]

Gentrification is market driven, basically, rising costs start the process

 

[Da Jungles]

There's white folks that live in The Jungles now

 

[Rigby.]

If they do, bet you those Mexicans won't be trying to kick them out and terrorize them like they try to with blacks.

http://yourblackworld.net/2013/01/l...ies-in-compton-to-drive-them-out-of-the-city/

thats cause white people a step away from driving them out the country lol

they can't do that

 

[L0Qutus]

Yo..I have always wanted to know this.

How exactly does gentrification happen? Like is it a conscious and deliberate action With some real estate heavy heads getting together ob some deliberate and malicious way and saying "this is the neighborhood that were taking over now"..

Or is it more of a snowball effect where one real estate developer or company buys a piece of property and the others peep it and say "you know what, perhaps we should get there too in order to stay on competition"?

Urban Renewal starts with Negro Removal

It's a pattern. It often starts with gays and hipsters. Gays are often the first to move into areas targeted for gentrification.

 

[CashmereThoughts]

we gettin a nfl team. whites love football

Before or after Detox? This shyt taking long breh

 

[johntheblackjew]

Urban Renewal starts with Negro Removal

It's a pattern. It often starts with gays and hipsters. Gays are often the first to move into areas targeted for gentrification.

I guess the question would be why that is.

Is it because they are often an ostracized group so they build their own communities and it's often in places like the inner city where it's cheap to live?

I've never experienced gentrification but it's such an interesting thing to me.

 

[Vice Queen]

I live in Watts, I haven't seen any white folk yet. Lynwood still has white people living there although a lot of them have been in the neighborhood for decades.

Mexicans and Salvadorians are really coming here in droves. Blacks are moving out to Lancaster and Palmdale, because houses are cheap.

 

[SirShaktus]

I stay in Baldwin Hills...

There's still a vast black majority, but if I stopped through theven Crenshaw Mall, there's around 2-3 different groups of white folks shopping, mainly in the Walmart...

The majority of them with non-American accents. Mainly Australian and Welsh. The occasional Brit.

I assume they go to school at USC and live closer to my neck of the woods to avoid the dorm crowds.

 

[Majestyx]

rent is more affordable in those areas, and black people dont be fukkin with cacs in the hood. white folks be feeling safe as shyt. college students and young professional white folk come thur early. set up shop

 

[Cave Savage]

Has violence decreased in that area?

I think the murder rate for LA is like 1/3 of what it was in the early 90s

 

[Doobie Doo]

People are forgetting that South Central was all white until the 1950's. They just taking what they used to own.

 

[futuretrunks]

People are forgetting that South Central was all white until the 1950's. They just taking what they used to own.

fukin idiot , where it leave the people who live there currently "they used"

 

[FLYINHAWAIIAN]

Alaska is more dangerous than Compton.

 

[Mowgli]

The only reason to buy property in these areas are to sell it to white people and help gentrify the area. If black people move back to compton, they'll just decrease the value of the homes again or increase them so they cant move back in at all, which is already happening.

 

[beenz]

USC is surrounded by the hood on all fronts, except to north where the staple center / downtown LA are.

The craziest thing is seeing a bunch of young white kids walking through the hood at night


But USC has so much security around that campus it's not even funny...

this is how the university of chicago campus is. to the north of it is hyde park, which is a really nice area. but to the south is woodlawn, which still got some elements in it, and to the west is washington park, which is sketchy as well. and a lot of the students live in both of those areas cuz it's cheaper. but they got campus police out the ass around that school cuz EVERYONE know how much money that school has and how much power they wield due to that.