mtswEfforts to prevent gentrification by graffiti tagging buildings in gentrifying neighborhoods with edgy political slogans seems to badly misunderstand which kind of people are first-wave gentrifiers and what their aesthetic preferences are.
Stopping gentrification by opening an independent record store.
joseph@mtsw I don’t think that stops gentrification. The record shop would need to be in a location with enough population and money to purchase enough product in a niche format to stay open. It seems like you’d need gentrification for that shop to exist.
@josephaleo that's the joke
Jason Petersen (he)@josephaleo did you only see the second post or what
Jeff Fecke@mtsw I've got a plan, I'll open a dive bar, that'll do it.
Luke Diaz@mtsw Oh and a Latin American coffee shop too.
En Buen Ora 🆗@mtsw is there a handy graphic of the waves of gentrifying colonization like they do for ecological succession in an open field or whatever
Benjamin Ross@enbuenora @mtsw You could really make gentrification halt at an early stage by not filling potholes & banning new off-street parking while building lots of new apartments. You never see that because gentrification foes aren't majority, they can only win by allying with people who just want to keep new housing out & don't mind gentrification.
Misuse Case@mtsw There are a lot of leftists who have really stupid ideas about gentrification. Like that you shouldn’t put amenities in low-income neighborhoods because it will attract gentrifiers. They found a way to reason out “the poor should not have nice things” but from the left.
Ezra Johnson@MisuseCase @mtsw I was genuinely shocked the first time I heard people openly discouraging public investment in underserved communities for this reason. Meanwhile, actual residents of those communities had decades of time invested in seeking those investments.
Will@MisuseCase @mtsw there’s a name for them, “the lead paint caucus”, and they are indeed real. I hear it at public meetings sometimes, and they are almost never the poor people who would be denied better conditions making these statements.
Clinical Rawlsian@mtsw Everyone knows the real key to preventing gentrification is banning chain restaurants and stores so all the retail and hospitality businesses in an area are small, locally owned, and unique. Yuppies hate that stuff.
Diego Beghin@mtsw The call is coming from inside the house!