Gentrification by Melissa Murray https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48 Write a description of how gentrification affects the cultural landscape. You can include photos and any questions you have too! en-us 2021-04-29 18:12:58 UTC 2025-07-17 06:52:22 UTC hello@padlet.com Harlem laboebied https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479199279 After reading about the Harlem, I learned that  Harlem is one neighborhoods in all of New York City where the population is constantly decreasing due to gentrification. But now the businesses are rapidly active with music, shops, and transportation everywhere. ]]> 2021-04-30 17:16:00 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479199279 Harlem https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479200057 Gentrification comes with positives and negatives. For example more stores might be opened that generate money for the town, but those stores are usually bigger businesses. They then rise the rent cost to have your business open which leads to smaller shops being closed. ]]> 2021-04-30 17:16:10 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479200057 Pilsen https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479200734 “[Gentrification is] what’s happening in Wicker Park. It’s big corporations building [high-rises]...That’s gentrification. Not these little mom-and-pop shops.”]]> 2021-04-30 17:16:19 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479200734 Harlem https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479200825 2021-04-30 17:16:20 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479200825 Pilsen https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479201678 "And in the mid-’90s, the Daley administration promoted the construction of University Village, a large-scale, mixed-use development and public-private partnership between the city and UIC, which Betancur says “brought gentrification to the door of Pilsen.'"]]> 2021-04-30 17:16:32 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479201678 Pilsen https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479202509 Between 2000 and 2010, the Latino population in Pilsen declined by 26 percent.]]> 2021-04-30 17:16:42 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479202509 Harlem kdahl5 https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479202588 "This shift in new businesses opening up is due to the increase in gentrification throughout the past 20 years. In fact, although there is still a large number of family-owned stores, there has been a major increase in big-box retailers, such as Whole Foods and Walmart..." Harlem is losing small businesses, which shows that there are disadvantages of gentrification.]]> 2021-04-30 17:16:43 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479202588 Pilsen https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479203833 “If anybody were to ask me, white people aren’t kicking us out,” he said. “We’re the ones selling to them. That’s not being kicked out.”]]> 2021-04-30 17:16:59 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479203833 Pilsen llucas39 https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479205436 "we have to tweak the definition of affordability, and we have to define it based on the residents that it is affecting"]]> 2021-04-30 17:17:22 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479205436 Harlem akrecu https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479208068 "According to the United States Census, in 2008, for the first time since the 1930’s, less than half of the residents in Harlem were of African descent, compared to the 70% it reached in the mid-20th century." After reading I learned that gentrification is decreasing the population of African Americans but at the same time new business are appearing fast.]]> 2021-04-30 17:17:56 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479208068 Harlem https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479208903 "He argued that although some of the culture has been pushed out and replaced, there is overall greater diversity in the buyers, sellers, and inhabitants, in addition to lower crime rates and higher average incomes."]]> 2021-04-30 17:18:07 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479208903 Pilsen https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479213024 "Property values have increased, rents have gone up, and the number of low-income, Latino families has declined."]]> 2021-04-30 17:19:01 UTC https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479213024 Pilsen cmalmberg1 https://padlet.com/maine207/agvqb2kncu7qdl48/wish/1479219585
"Property values have increased, rents have gone up, and the number of low-income, Latino families has declined."
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