How Gentrification Affecting Urban Communities

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Gentrification is a big part of the economic norm in the United States. Gentrification is an upgrade of communities that would allow businesses and corporations to take advantage of urban communities. Gentrification intentionally pushes the poor out of communities and brings the rich into the communities. The authors, Daniel Jose Older, Dashka Slater and William D. Jenkins have written articles that center around the topic of gentrification. However, they take different approaches in their articles. In “Gentrification’s Insidious Violence: The Truth about American Cities” Older despises gentrification. He makes opinionated statements that would support his position. In comparison to Older’s article, Slater, the author of “Go Forth and Gentrify?” claims the positive effect of gentrification outweigh the negative. She believes gentrification creates positive changes that help people in communities live easier. Jenkins, the author of “Before Downtown” focuses on how urban renewal can help protect the poor and sustaining properties of the estates. Each of these authors has a different viewpoint on how gentrification would affect communities. They focus on the gentrification, as a process, how it can drastically affect urban communities.…show more content…
In this piece, he writes that gentrification is glazed with white supremacy because is a way of uprooting the communities by displacing them. Older also declares that gentrification does not help to reveal the true question displacement and racial disparities. By avoiding the question, it allows the communities of color to be treated as nothing more of importance. Then Older goes on to discuss the results of gentrification leading to how traditional ingredients are becoming

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