Jn Baptiste Raymond Yasminah Carmela
Date : December 05, 2019
What sup my Instagram friends? How are you? How was our break? I remember I promised you that after the break I’m going to share with us what is the biggest problem for me in NYC which is #Gentrification. Generally, It means that when a lot of rich white people come to settle in a poor area everything changes. For example, the price of living becomes expensive, and even food. Low income individuals who were already here should move out because they can’t afford anything. Even people with low income that come from another area that love the beauty of the city can’t live there.
I found about pushing people from their own area is the cause of mental illness, and even discrimination. Last week I made some research about the change gentrification brought among low income individuals. I learned that metal illness is higher among individuals who has been forced to move out of their neighborhood rather than those who stay in their area. Based on my idea we can infer that gentrification destroys the reputation of the lower class people.
The only advice I can give you if you live in poverty don’t put in mind you the poorest in the world because Someone can be poorer than you. I think it’s will be better for people with low income to not compromise. Just take everything simple. When I say that I mean don’t worry about you don’t have enough money to make your living and other issues in life then like that you will have less problem and be always happy. Once you have less problem you wouldn’t have certain kind of diseases that are caused by stress or loneliness.
Hey guys I read an important article about how the increasing of the rent by the newcomers can harm people who don’t have enough money. The name of it is ‘’Negative Impacts of Gentrification in Brooklyn’’. Accordingly, the writer wrote a piece of argument that he found against gentrification in the article ‘’Who Hurts’’. In this article the writer finds out that the settlement of wealthy individuals in a poor area makes it to become attractive, but displacement can occur. He describes the story of a woman with low income that call Anaya. She lives in a tenement building with her parents, brother and other tenants including multiple children. However, she does not feel satisfy because she lives in a poor condition in her apartment. She said that ‘’there is a big hole in our bathroom, and hardly any heat’’. When Anaya and her family want to move to another apartment, gentrification problem hamper them to do that because it’s too costly for them. For where they want to live it’s $7000 and up. Waw, I believe that it’s difficult for them to live like that because even they see some beautiful houses, or apartments in other area, they is only able to dream about to have one but unable to have one.
I think the difficulty of rent that individuals with low income face can solve through cooperation. When I say cooperation, I mean that once the rich people come to settle in a poor neighborhood, they should not increase the rent in order for everybody to have access to an apartment and not pushing those who were already here out of their area.
In summary, changing the social or professional status of a neighborhood affect the living condition of the lower class badly.
On google I learned about a text that called ‘’When Gentrification is a Health Mental Issue’’ that in New York City the changing of the social norm of a neighborhood can be hazardous on health. But the only problem I have with this article is the author didn’t mention in which Borough the problem he mentions occurs. Serious mental diseases like schizophrenia is more common among individuals who get displaced to their areas more than those who don’t. All of that reflect more among people who have been forced to move out because they feel that the traditions and the services of the city had gone once the newcomers transformed the area into their favors. For example, this article says, if a resident depends on his area because it provides him some good services like childcare and elderly care and sometimes people put together to form a neighborhood watch. Then, this area gets gentrified the person will feel the loss of everything.
I believe that transform a neighborhood social norm have a bad effect on some individual’s health.
Wow hey my blood, I also found an interesting article on google that talk about racism #gentrification in Washington D.C. It’s called ‘’Residents Sue Washington D.C for Racist Gentrification Practices’’. It mentions that residents sue Washington D.C because the rich white individuals that come to live in some areas in this state change the areas just to hamper the living condition of the poor African Americans who were already here. They may do that by imposing taxes, create some programs, and jobs that can be beneficial only for the higher class.
A lawsuit filed on April 14 claimed that former mayors Adrian Fenty and Vincent Gray found the Creative Action Agenda and the Creative Economy Strategy just to enforce discrimination. Those decree include that ‘’we are planning to alter land use in order to attract people who are of a certain age range and profession’’. Based on this quote I can conclude that if someone is not wealthy, they have some opportunities that he can’t get. Unfortunately, most of the people who are poor in Washington D.C are black, so the policy implied by the mayors was not in favor of the black community.
Theresa claim in the court that must of his clients complain about the rising of the housing prices and gentrification will push them out of their area. Then, she also said that the construction of new luxury building is built to attract the higher class. All of that result in the forced out of 39000 black residents in most cities from 2000 to 2010 and 50000 white residents gained black communities.
For this case I have the idea that if white people that come to settle in black communities created jobs and services for all kind of people everybody will be able to progress. So, residents wouldn’t going to sue the city.
I decide to share the impacts of gentrification with us on Instagram to make us become aware and to inform us more about how the idea of the richer keep getting richer and the poorer keep getting poorer come from.
Hello, my Facebook businessmen friends. How are you? How was our job? Today I decide to share with us how the arrival of new wealthy businessmen in a small community can be harmful for small businesses. It destroys little businesses in order to be beneficial for only top businesses. To do that wealthy businessman who come to settle in poor community come to introduce better products and services to their customers. Then, the customers wouldn’t be interested in what the little businesses are selling. Then, once they can’t sell their products the businesses will fall. The only advice I can give small businessmen is beside business you should learn something else that will be easy for you to make money in case of if your area get gentrified. For example, a job like nursing, plumber, can be advantageous for people with low income.
I red the article ‘’How Gentrification affects Small Businesses’’ that was writing by Hertz a weeks ago. From Rachel Meltzer essay Hertz picks a statement that show how gentrification affect small businesses. First, the kind of good and services that local residents want can be change. Second, the cost of doing business can be switched to put small business down. Then after that the writer also found a data from Meltzer’s essay that prove the disappearance of lower business. A New York city data from the year of 1990 and 2011 claims that once an area gets gentrified lower businesses were replaced by another businesses. For example, bodegas getting replaced by artisanal coffee shops. However, the author claims that this kind of change is more common in gentrifying area than non-gentrifying ones.
I also learned a little thing from ‘’Does Gentrification Help or Harm Small Businesses’’ text. It states that big businesses owners make it impossible for small businessmen to do business when they upgraded the area.
I think there is a way for people that don’t have big business can overcome gentrification. To do that they should provide good services and products to their communities. For example, in a restaurant they should have good menu and delicious food. Then the cooks and the waiters should be fast on what they are doing. So, with those qualities that’s can attract many customers and this small business restaurant can grow even in the presence of gentrification.
