Gentrification is the process of upper or middle class people moving into previously lower class areas which increases in taxes and property value, as well as changing a district’s culture. Wealthier people moving into a poorer region increases property value and small community stores, as well as removing former residents due to them not being able to afford the sudden new taxes. Small cultural dime stores or restaurants are replaced by fast food or malls to please this new rich population, who would rather have something quick. This is such a controversial topic because on one hand schools, roads, crime rate, people who have been living in this community for generations are suddenly reduced to living on the streets because their once reasonable rent, increasing drastically. Rare cultural businesses are replaced by a common McDonald's or Starbucks for production rather than quality.
Gentrification will lead to poverty in many families and independent people because families who live in low priced apartments, once gentrification takes place those people and families won’t be able to afford their households. Gentrification also leads to poverty by taking money from taxing in order to have the money to rebuild those complexes which many people can’t afford to do because they need to provide for themselves and their families if they have one.
Because of gentrification people lose a lot of money that could be used for their personal lives instead of being put into remodeling houses and apartment complexes. This affects the area, once gentrification takes place the housing starts costing more which leads to people losing homes and those homes never get bought or paid for. Then affordable housing becomes non­existent due to the homes not being bought or paid for. Bringing an increase of crime due to displacement. Gentrification also threatens to displace low income residents and renders small businesses obsolete due to the new booming wealthy population.
Although school systems might improve but people are being forced to leave their homes to survive on the streets.
Gentrification threatens millions of families around the world and is separating people from their ethnic background. A relatable topic to this controversy is the the removal of chinatowns across the country. Three out of fifthteen are still progressing while others are either being torn down or replaced with much more expensive high priced apartments or restaurants which the people who live there cannot afford. As you have the poor leave their was once was home, they flee to cities with cheaper houses or apartments for rent. Some of theses people even become homeless and always wonder where their next meal will come from. The most important issue here are the kids who live in these communities. Where will they get their education since they won’t be able to go to school? This will lead to violence and the percentage of homeless people will increase. As they kick out more and more people out their home probably assuming that there will be less crime, they are only making matters worst and this will be a recurring process until they learn nothing will be accomplished for what they are doing. It is a rich man’s game and when landowners sell their land all they care about is the money in their hands and not the people.
“The impacts of the gentrification movement can be tied to systemic racism both directly and indirectly, i.e. it targets certain racial neighborhoods deliberately, and it also targets them because minorities make up the majority of the working class.” Further, the reality provides a clear argument against the “mutually beneficial” argument due to the fact that it is notably detrimental to specific groups of people.” This sentence pulled from Jonathan Frets online article

“Gentrification: The truth behind Urban development, its systemic racism, and the resistance”.
Shows that often times the deeper meaning to Gentrification is often racism.
The way I have found this too be true is through developing these neighborhoods and raising the living standards they know the community that once lived there will cease to exist in that area due to the higher living costs. As they raise the living standard, often slowly, it may seem unnoticeable unless you are at the lower end of the deal. This process causes resentment because the new residents coming in often have a type of superiority mindset. They may not think it but subconsciously they do realize in a way, they outrank many of the people living there. This can also cause resentment within the already existing communities. The more the gentrification continues the more this resentment builds up. So in a way this process is a double edged sword.
Gentrification and segregation are two very unlikely terms that actually have a lot in common. Gentrification is when rich (usually white) people move into low income neighborhoods (usually filled with minorities) and fix everything up, while this may sound good what they are really doing is raising the price to live there so that the original people who did live there can no longer afford to live there. Segregation is when one person is set apart from the other based on one feature. These two are similar because they both take on group in the case of gentrification poor people separate them from something that the others have their homes. One other similarity that gentrification and segregation share is they both have white people taking away from other minorities. Lets use San Francisco as an example before gentrification hit the

area it was a town for low income Asians, than young white people came in and bettered the area but also drove out most of the native Asians.
Most people think that schools are segregated because the neighborhoods happened to be segregated but the truth is the areas who have mixed income and mixed ethnicity, the middle class families that are often white do not like to send their children to a public school with poor black and Hispanic children so they put their children in charter school or gifted and talented programs. Making most public schools filled with black and Hispanic children. Public school: 36 students in New York City is a great example with 96% of other students being either black or
Hispanic and with an income of $36,000. In the other hand the school was not always like this the school's income was $69,000 and 37% of the student population was either black or
Hispanic, gentrification changed that. New York has been considered to have some of the most segregated public schools, and has excelled since the 2000s.
Gentrification not only results in racism and segregation but also has a negative effect on the health of the residents of the area. Gentrification often results in the expansion of the city which attracts new people. These people push the existing residents of the area to undesirable parts of the existing city. When people move into an existing community they also break some of the bonds that existed between people. This is referred to as “social loss”. Social loss often results in many psychological effects and stress. Which in turn can take a toll on that person's body such as lowering their ability to fight off diseases. This leads to a rise in the risk of diseases such as cancer, asthma, diabetes and birth effects. These is also an effect of gentrification because the parts these people inhabit are normally unsanitary and polluted. The CDC has

commented on this subject to say that it also affects the sociological and economical aspects of these people’s lives which tie in with their health. They say this about the health effects of gentrification “
Other health effects include limited access to or availability of the following: affordable healthy housing, healthy food choices, transportation choices, quality schools, bicycle and walking paths, exercise facilities, social networks. Changes can also occur in: stress levels, injuries, violence and crime, mental health, social and environmental justice.” It has also been concluded that these individuals often have more exposure to hazardous materials and chemicals.
Gentrification has not only been hard on the individual's health but makes them worry about transportation, paying a mortgage or even finding a job which can be mortifying and there’s more to it.
They also have to worry about how they are going to be able to bring food to the dinner table. “
Price is a function of demand and the demand for things once dismissed as
“poor man food”—like beans, peanut butter, brown rice, sweet potatoes, and assorted greens—is clearly on the rise.” (Inside the Gentrification of Food) This is demonstrating that not only food in general is going up, but even what we know as poor people food is increasing its prices. If people can’t make enough to even get enough money for food..what makes them think they can survive in a new and improved neighborhood? Gentrification is ruining people, people have to work or do things ten times more harder to even survive in those communities.
Gentrification has lead to protesting of locals. On july 11th, 2015 over 100 people of
London England participated in the protest against the gentrification of Camden considered by some historic for its fashion history. Protesters said “the developers are ripping the heart out of
Camden” and “keep Camden special stop yuppie infestation” as they carried banners that read
“We must devastate the avenues where the wealthy live,” So naturally when police arrived on

scene the protesters shifted from protesting to starting an all­out riot against police throwing fireworks and glass bottles yelling their chants and resulting in 2 police officers injured and 5 suspects in custody. There are many more examples of locals fighting back against the gentrification of their hometowns and things they consider historic like the Brixton protest just like the Camden protest the protesters of Brixton quickly became violent and smashed windows wielding banners that proclaimed “save Brixton arches”. These are retail spaces beneath the railway bridge, which, are owned by Network Rail. Together with the council they’re working on a plan they call a “major investment” for central Brixton, which will see the refurbishment of the arches. But some fear what this might mean for local traders with the local people saying things like “triple the rent you’ve got to be kidding me”. This is the harm gentrification dose to people of small communities like Brixton and Camden not only are they taking things considered by the people historic to their neighborhood but if they replace the beloved buildings it won’t even be these people's neighborhood anymore the rent will be raised with the increase in land values following the construction and these everyday people will not be able to afford the gentrified and outrages prices this is sadly seeming to become the everyday situation for the average person in our modern world.
Gentrification is believed a good thing with mostly bad outcomes. These outcomes can kick people out from their homes, addition to trying to move the richer in. Restaurant prices go up, and the poor barely getting by could not possibly afford this expensive meal. Arguably this is just perspective, on the other hand home prices are raised to the roof, grocery prices go up and this leaves you to be forced to leave home. Gentrification is a way of replacing old residents. In which the richer go into a poverty filled town and may move in as the poverty rates just soar

higher. On view points it is simply making it worst. Poverty or gentrification, either way it is displacing the former residents barely that are trying to get by with a low income. People may think poverty will drop due to gentrification but, all the numbers remain high. Gentrification keeps spreading, it is being used everywhere around the world and must come to a stop.