Disadvantages Of Gentrification

Gentrification is a problem because lower-income families get pushed out of their homes; additionally, economically speaking this means that family-owned businesses go bankrupt or get pushed out by franchises. Gentrification is about buying property and making it bigger to get higher income. It’s the renovation of business, houses and markets that wealthy people can afford. Wealthy communities are the ones taking over the middle class property and making them relocated and making them find something they can afford. Although gentrification its does not always have to be a bad thing everything always have its advantages and disadvantages and people can take advantage of it if they have the money they need. Who wouldn't want to see less crimes, cleaner cities, fancy buildings but it has a price to it. The people end up having to leave their homes where they have live their whole life. Gentrification increases the rents and the houses have a higher value and the culture of the neighbor also change.
The street vendors are the one getting more affected by gentrification. In the article How This LA Street Vendor Is Dealing With Gentrification “ by Javier Cabral in this articles the author let us know how badly the vendors are been treated without them doing anything bad to the community. Andres Santos had to pay
a fine of $1,000 just because he was selling corn in the streets. He spends two nights in LA County jail for working to support his family. He was the second-generation of his family he had his clients in the Highland Park neighborhood. Other people would drive miles to just go and buy from him. He like many other family’s refuse to give up the small family business.
In the dictionary Gentrification means “the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, thus improving property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.” This means that gentrification is the cause of people having to relocate. Gentrification can cause many problems like it can cause people to become homeless because they can’t find something they can afford or they can pay to move to a different place. It may also get children mad because they have to move to a new school to a new environment that they don't know anything about. It can have caused them to get bad grades because they have to leave behind their old friends and teachers, because their parents can afford to pay for the school. The rich people are the one that get better education the ones that can learn from better teacher because good school get great teacher. Moving school can be a big problem in gentrification because kids have to adapt to new thing and it can also be a new culture because every part of the countries have a different culture.
In the article “ Is gentrification really a problem?” by Kelefa Sanneh the author talks about how some having have to double-up with other family to have a place to live (1). Gentrification can also cause overcrowding because now families get a house with another family so they can be able to pay the rent. Some families have to “double-up” and that can also be a problem because people may not always know the other families well but they don't have another choice. Having to “double-up” can be a big problem because they can have problems but they have to deal with it because they can afford to move to a different place. Sometimes the family that pays more feels with the authority to demand in the house and make the rules. Many families have to live there houses and community that they were familiar with because they can afford to pay there anymore, they may not feel safe but they have to stay there a sacrifice to give their children a roof to leave.
In the article “Gentrification and Community Fabric in Chicago” by John Betancur the author talks about the gentrification is not always a bad thing to the community its can also means that more jobs are available due to the new business that business people are making.
People have the opportunity to get good jobs but other have to leave their job to do racist problems some company’s judge the people by there appearances or the way the look or even the clothes they’re wearing. Is not the first time we experience segregation in America and it connected to gentrification because the cities are pushing the color or the Latin people out to make a better
community.
Many people have experience gentrification either in the place they used to live or in the places they are leaving now. Myself has seen gentrification happened the community. Many people not only my family go out on Fridays to eat some tacos or food from the food trucks. My family and I would go all the way to LA to get some fast food from a food truck that was in the streets. We would constantly go because although we had to wait for more than 30 minutes to order our good we always though that it was worth it. People really liked the food because it was really good and a lot of people would go Fridays because they would only open Fridays and Sundays. One Friday we decided to go to the food through, however, the food truck wasn't there anymore they had been removed from their place and they were never there anymore because the police had caught them without permission to be there.
While it is true that gentrification brings problem to lower-income families, people should understand that it can also help the community by having cleaner city and less crimes. The people that want to stay in the community they find a way to pay for there expenses and to pay for rent to stay and prove them community that they are not the one causing the trouble or making the city bad. However, at the end of the day people are either leaving by choice or getting kick out of there homes but there is still displacement by the same people just with much more money. Although gentrification can have it advantages like people are making new business or they are making the small business grow.
In the dictionary A Dictionary of Human Geography by Noel Castree it says how “gentrification is a key area of urban geographical research, initially perhaps because it conflicted with the expectation that middle-class households would seek new suburban rather than old inner urban residences.” This means weather there is different stages of gentrification in the communities or it has been just a problem that is been happening for years now. “Explanation of gentrification focused first on supposedly temporary demographic factors, such as the delayed family formation of the post-war baby boomers”(1). There are evidence that gentrification was more then the just a matter of class; but it can also be about the gender of the people and there sexual identities.
Alejandro Nieto was a victim of gentrification he was in the wrong place and in the wrong moment where the white people dint feel safe enough. In the article “ Death by gentrification: the killing that shamed San Francisco” by Rebecca Solnit she claims how Nieto was in the wrong moment and he got kill. In this article we see different point of view and what people think about the accident. Alejandro Nieto a security guard at a night club was shot to death and it was mainly because gentrification. Nieto has spent his whole life wondering around the park after work it was like a routine for him. The police claim that Nieto defiantly pointed a Taser at them and that they thought the red light was from a gun. He was shoot and killed in the spot, because a family didn't feel safe having him they’re sitting down eating a burrito and a tortilla chips. Nieto was part of gentrification.
Gentrification can be a problem her in America and all over the world but how can we stop gentrification how can we say is bad when sometimes it helps the community. Well there is many ways people can stop gentrification they can star by making the cities better but not taking the residents out of there homes to leave them there and let them leave there normal life. They can make fancy building but not make it a fantasy that people can’t afford. They should make gentrification to help people and not to kick them out of there home. The rent shouldn't be so high that people cant afford it. They should accept all kind of people it doesn't matter the way they look or their genders they are all humans being and they deserve the right to be threated equally. They should help the community and make cleaner cities and peoples should take advantage of it and take care of what they have. Gentrification can be changed.