What are some of the concerns associated with gentrification? by Rose Arnell https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl Add your thoughts to the appropriate column. Responses must be at least 3 sentences in length. en-us 2018-02-08 15:21:01 UTC 2018-02-13 15:42:54 UTC hello@padlet.com Lauren Ferguson https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230067308 When gentrification occurs, people that lived in these gentrified areas are displaced to make room for the richer people. As more rich people enter the community, more buildings are destroyed to make room for the new people. The close-knit community crumbles as the designs and people of the area are destroyed to make room for "modern" designs.]]> 2018-02-09 15:42:37 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230067308 Lauren Ferguson https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230067549 The government plays a large role in gentrification. The government might supply money or encourage richer people to move in. This movement of richer people hurts the native communities and is unfair to the poorer or less privileged people that lived there before gentrification occurred.]]> 2018-02-09 15:43:00 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230067549 Kali Carr https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230067667 People and communities are affected by gentrification because they are used to where they live, and can afford it. The places where this usually happens are low income communities. When people of middle or high incomes come in and change the community, prices go up, which makes it hard for those who live there to pay for their homes. With new stores and restaurants, these people can't go to the usual places they like because they have been renovated and the cost is too high.]]> 2018-02-09 15:43:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230067667 Lauren Ferguson https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230068142 Richer people shouldn't kick out poorer communities. The native communities have a right to live in their chosen and personalized area just like anyone else, but the native people are unable to pay the new outrageously high rent because of their contrasting low income, forcing the people to leave their homes. The rich people have more advantages because of their money, allowing them to "modernize" nice communities.]]> 2018-02-09 15:43:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230068142 Augie Pazzo https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230068395 The less wealthy people are forced to move from their wonderful homes and amazng communities they have lived in for a very long time due to gentrification. The more wealthy landlords raise the rent to an unpayable amount forcing them to move out. The community is then "cleaned up" or changed completly.]]> 2018-02-09 15:44:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230068395 Brooke Heis https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230069056 People who are living in not thriving communities are being forced to move due to gentrification. Richer people are building more expensive buildings in and around the community causing rent to increase. The poorer families can't pay this higher rent so they are forced to move. This then makes space for the more richer folk to move in to the home that has been unoccupied due to gentrification.]]> 2018-02-09 15:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230069056 Augie Pazzo https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230069581 The government causes gentrification by helping invest and change communities. The wealthy investors bribe the people living there with money so that they leave. Then, the government assists in radically changing every part of the community.]]> 2018-02-09 15:46:13 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230069581 Brooke Heis https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230070843 The government causes gentrification by investing into communities and helping change them. The government entices the less-fortunate people with money. If the people of the community took the money from the government they would be forced to move out of their homes and hand over their land to the government.]]> 2018-02-09 15:48:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230070843 Drew Poellein https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071010 Many people that live in low income/poor communities suffer greatly when much more rich and powerful move in and completely change everything that was previously there for something much nicer. It's not ethical because it unfairly dislocates satisfied low income citizens, only to please those with high expectations. The people getting dislocated will most likely not get full payment for their property and they will most likely struggle to find another affordable property suitable for their family.]]> 2018-02-09 15:49:03 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071010 Augie Pazzo https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071048 Some people veiw gentrification as a good thing for communities, as it boosts the economy of a failing community, along with providing more oppurtunities for people seeking a job. On the other hand, some people veiw gentrifying a failing or econonomically slow community as a bad thing for people, as it removes people who live in the neighborhood being gentrified from their pleasent homes, and with changing the community local less wealthy people have come to know extremly well and love with their heart. There is both upsides and downsides to gentrification, and people have very different views.]]> 2018-02-09 15:49:08 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071048 Kali Carr https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071718 The government is one of the main causes for gentrification because once someone comes in to say that they are going to change the community, the government funds it. When the native people of that area say they do not want it, the government does not do anything about it. The government is really the only thing that can stop gentrification, but it hardly ever does.]]> 2018-02-09 15:49:57 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071718 Madi Almond https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071762 People of the lower class are forced out of there homes to make room for higher class when gentrification happens. The higher class people are raising the rent causing the lower class people to not be able to pay anymore, and then kicking them out. When kicked out, there is then more room for higher class people to live and build homes.]]> 2018-02-09 15:50:01 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230071762 Griffin Bennett https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072371 People that once lived in a newly developed building are being forced out due to an increase in rent costs. The developers raise the rent to unreasonable prices to make more money, however gentrification typically occurs in low income neighborhoods so the renters do not often have the money for the new rent costs. The result is that people who have lived in the same building for years are now kicked to the street to make way for new, rich renters.]]> 2018-02-09 15:51:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072371 Hudson Stevenson https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072476 Lower class people are being kicked out of their homes and basically left with nothing so that middle to upper class people can make  the lower classes community richer and a place where they would want to live.]]> 2018-02-09 15:51:14 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072476 Mia Leyland https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072524 In certain situations, gentrification can be good and positively impact the community. However, some people have and will abuse the power and gentrify areas to 
a) Force their culture and ideas on people, and/or
b) gentrify just to do it, in an area where people are okay.]]> 2018-02-09 15:51:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072524 Erik Goodfellow https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072575 When gentrification occurs, many people who are of a lower class are displaced when they are unable to pay for higher rent. Most of the people in communities that are being gentrified don't want it to happen because they want things to stay the same.  Gentrification is unfair to people who live in these poorer communities that are being gentrified.]]> 2018-02-09 15:51:24 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072575 Brooke Heis https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072802 Gentrification can be viewed as good or bad depending on where you on financially. To the poorer people who's community is being changed it is viewed as a bad thing that is ruining their community. To the wealthier it is viewed as a good thing because it is opening up new opportunities for stores and giving more people homes. Although, these new people that are getting homes are people that can pay for more expensive homes/apartments. Also, gentrification boosts the economy of a hurting community, but while doing that displaces some of its occupants. ]]> 2018-02-09 15:51:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230072802 Hudson Stevenson https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230073441 Sometimes, the American government wants the most money they can possibly have, so they invest in communities and gentrify them so that they can make more money. This gets more people with money to come into the community, bringing more money possibilities to the government.]]> 2018-02-09 15:53:02 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230073441 Mia Leyland https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230073533 Though it can be done legally, there isn't a moral justification to kicking someone out of their home- and since many people that are in areas that would be considered gentrifiable, they're probably not in the best situation- maybe the one they're in now if the only one they could make work.]]> 2018-02-09 15:53:12 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230073533 Hudson Stevenson https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074329 Gentrification can be good or bad depending on how you look at it. It could be good because it brings in more money for the government and has people invested in the community so they would really care about it. It can also be bad though, because when an area is gentrified, poor people are kicked out of their homes, and they won't have enough money to pay to stay in the area so they would have to move out and find somewhere else to live which either will take a long time, or the people will just not find a new place to live at all.]]> 2018-02-09 15:54:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074329 Mia Leyland https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074342 Gentrification often changes the culture to that of the gentrifier, which can rob the people being gentrified of their identity and sense of community.]]> 2018-02-09 15:54:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074342 Madi Almond https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074613 The government is helping fund this whole situation. The government supplies money for the people moving in. If the government didn't fund this whole situation, then the whole situation of gentrification would be stopped. ]]> 2018-02-09 15:55:16 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074613 Kali Carr https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074914 Gentrification is more good for some people, and bad for others. It takes the communities that people live in and turn them into thriving new "cities." These people are kicked out of their homes and forced to leave, which would be bad in this case. When buying a house or apartment that has been built in the area, however, you really aren't doing anything wrong. The building is already there, and you weren't the one who decided to build it. You have a nice place to live, which is good.]]> 2018-02-09 15:55:49 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230074914 Griffin Bennett https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230075533 The government primarily influences the process of Gentrification. The government sees the renovation of rundown, impoverished neighborhoods as a blessing because it produces more revenue for the state. This is propulsive to gentrification, and causes more renovations to occur.]]> 2018-02-09 15:57:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230075533 Erik Goodfellow https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230075889 When an area starts to be gentrified, the government will fund it to try and make the city a nicer place to live in. When this happens, it makes it even harder for people to stop gentrification from occurring in their community. The government is encouraging gentrification and making it harder for people of the lower class community to stop gentrification from continuing.]]> 2018-02-09 15:57:53 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230075889 Josh Blavat https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076345  
If somebody raises the cost of rent to kick somebody out to charge someone else for more, then that is ethical as long as they get a heads-up. When the person signed up to live in the apartment, they payed to live in it for a certain amount of time. If they want to continue to live, they have to do a new contract. They cannot complain if a new deal is worse than an old one. There was no promise that the price would not go up in the future, and the person cannot complain about it. 
]]> 2018-02-09 15:58:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076345 Griffin Bennett https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076459 Ethically, gentrification is unjust, it's not under someone's control whether or not they have an education. The lack of an education drives someone to poverty, at which point, if gentrification happens, then their situation only worsens. As gentrification happens, rent prices soar and so the impoverished are booted out of their homes, it's morally horrifying.]]> 2018-02-09 15:59:05 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076459 Josh B https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076622 The purpose of the government is to serve the people, rich, middle-class, and poor, who live in the area that the government legally controls and governs. If the poor people living in the area of the government's control hate and despise the events that are happening, the poor people are responsible for getting a representative who lives among the poor people elected. The poor people can also protest and write a petition. Sadly and depressingly, the government can ignore huge protests and well-written petitions written by the poor people. If enough of the poor people living in the community are elected into office, then representatives of the poor people living in the community can become insiders and create a change change in their poor community themselves, assuming the poor people's community has enough poor members of their community in office as representatives, or a few poor people who are especially good at making their points. Poor people living in gentrified communities need to participate in the government by joining the federal government.]]> 2018-02-09 15:59:27 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076622 Josh B https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076772 If Bob John Smith is a middle-class citizen and Bob John Smith starts putting buildings, stores, restaurants, hotels, and more into a poor community, the poor people who live in the community are not out of hope. The poor humans can do fundraising. The poor people can earn a great sum of money to allow the poor people to put up posters or murals that represent the culture of the poor people who live in the community. If the poor people raise enough money, the poor people can add new buildings, stores, restaurants, hotels, and more where the poor people can place posters and murals that represent the culture of the poor people. The poor people can add their culture in the area where new buildings, stores, restaurants, hotels, and more are being added. The poor people might not be allowed to put buildings, stores, restaurants, hotels, and more in the poor people's community if a richer individual owns the land. To fix this problem, the poor people can make a petition to gain the ability to add in building, stores, restaurants, hotels, and more 
or the poor people can buy the right from the owner of the land. While the humans may be poor individually, the poor people can work together to achieve a common goal.
]]> 2018-02-09 15:59:43 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076772 Madi Almond https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076790 If you are a higher class person, the situation would be viewed as good, however if you are a lower class person, the situation would be viewed as very bad. The lower class people are kicked out of there homes and have to go and find new homes, which might be harmful because they might not find a place to live, which is the bad side of things. However, for the higher class people, they get to build new and improved building and "cities" to live in, while the government is funding it all, which is the good side of things.]]> 2018-02-09 15:59:45 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230076790 Erik Goodfellow https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230077122 Most people think that gentrification is good, but gentrification can be bad too. Old buildings that people have owned and worked in for many years are being torn down to make place for newer, higher class buildings. It isn't fair for higher class people to take over a poorer community and gentrify it. ]]> 2018-02-09 16:00:11 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230077122 Max Kovall https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230077473 The cultural oriented people in the communities are being moved out of their homes because of super high rent prices. Then, the high income people that can offer the money for that apartment/house move in and take their spot. The people have to go live in another low income community that will eventually get intensely gentrified again]]> 2018-02-09 16:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230077473 Philip Dubuc https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230077477 Higher income people are Gentrifying a communities where people are getting kicked out of the peoples homes they worked hard for. The community is a big family, it has a way of life that is unique, cool, and meaningful while someone is destroying it for profit. People need to work even harder than they already are to pay for needs. While the more wealthy move in, the expectations raise.]]> 2018-02-09 16:00:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230077477 Drew Poellein https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230078192 The government is not doing nearly enough to protect low income families from gentrification. They support all successful business because it means they will get more neccessary funding through taxes. Also, the government doesn't even attempt to make sure that the home owners receive enough money for the property or even to survive in general.]]> 2018-02-09 16:02:10 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230078192 Max Kovall https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230078373 The government are the people behind this whole process they only want money so the greedy apartment owners try and move people who can't pay the lot out. Then they try and move people that can pay in because The modern money spenders see the low price and they are drawn by the deal. Then the owner of the place raises the prices immensely so that the greedy owners can make more money. The government makes the culture and the civilization go into a downward spiral]]> 2018-02-09 16:02:32 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230078373 Philip Dubuc https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230079139 The government isn't doing anything to stop it and making it worse. The government is encouraging it by giving money and resources. People are make others lives worse because they don't have the money. ]]> 2018-02-09 16:03:54 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230079139 Max Kovall https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230079331 When people are kicked out of their houses and growing, unique communities. Cultures are destroyed, it shows that the government favors money over diversity now a days. The good things about gentrification is that the government can make more money which can help them pay out debt and help further communities. But none the less the more unique and prospering communities re being turned into bustling cites, good for the money makers .]]> 2018-02-09 16:04:18 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230079331 Josh B https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230079700 The United States of America is a country built almost entirely upon immigrants, with the exceptions of Native Americans. Even with Native Americans, however, some Native Americans might have been forced out of the land the Native American tribes started into a different area. If nearly everybody is an immigrant, then why can't middle-class citizens choose to immigrate to poor areas? These middle-class citizens have the right to enter the poor community, just like several of the poor people and the ancestors of the poor people living there did years ago.]]> 2018-02-09 16:04:59 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230079700 Jack P https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230080155 Gentrification is terrible, it displaces communities and splits friends and family apart. However you need the ability to be able to pick, choose and buy a house without feeling ethical pain, suffering and guilt that you put a family on the streets. While tough, the decision and keeps people in neighborhoods with people who look, act and live the same as them to prevent gentrification]]> 2018-02-09 16:05:50 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230080155 Drew Poellein https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230080680 The communities getting gentrified are composed of low income people that all are of very similar ethnicity or belief system. When these poor communities are bought, it breaks a strong, loving, dependent, family apart. The people being dislocated will struggle to survive financially including food and shelter.]]> 2018-02-09 16:06:44 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230080680 Jack P https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230081448 When asked who to blame for Gentrification, most people wouldn't say the community or people, they'd likely say the government. The Government is responsible for kicking people out of houses and not telling buyers all the facts. We really need to help people and put a stop to government power and make sure they're restrained.]]> 2018-02-09 16:08:19 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230081448 Josh B https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230082506 Lauren wrote, "This hurts the native communities and is unfair to the people that live there." However, I do not entirely agree with this. Many times, the people who are living there are also immigrants. So, if they move in and destroy Native American culture, then what is wrong with destroying the culture of the destroyers? Nothing. Do what you wish to be done to you and your descendants.]]> 2018-02-09 16:10:26 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230082506 Jack P https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230082837 People and communities are the ones who really suffer from gentrification because people are the one getting forcibly kicked out devoid of money. If I were forced to leave my cozy home, even if terrible, and life was taken away so that a new, bigger and better, community could be built, I would not go quietly. In fact, these communities should not go without fighting either, everyone needs to help to end this terrible problem that is Gentrification. ]]> 2018-02-09 16:11:06 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230082837 Avery Horton averyhorton2 https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230654126 Gentrification is the renovating of environments so it becomes suitable for the middle class dominant in the area. As more rich move to an area, the standards are raised, making the original middle class people not able to live there anymore because of invaders. This is not right for the original middle class.]]> 2018-02-12 15:54:09 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230654126 Avery Horton averyhorton2 https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230658120 As the government grows bigger and stronger, the people are even more at their mercy. The natives of small towns watch as their towns grow larger, and with it their economy. They cannot live there anymore because government has forced them out through gentrification. And so, they have to move away to smaller cities again to endure it again.]]> 2018-02-12 16:00:07 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230658120 Philip Dubuc https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230661515 It is wrong of the wealthy to take lower classes homes from them. The community is being teared apart and ruined. One good side thought is that the area will look nice and new.]]> 2018-02-12 16:04:41 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230661515 Avery Horton averyhorton2 https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230663978 The problem with America's economy is that classes almost never change. The rich stay rich and the poor stay poor. This is gentrification, the middle class has no way of adapting to become the new middle class.]]> 2018-02-12 16:07:52 UTC https://padlet.com/rosearnell1/h0pivl4qrptl/wish/230663978