The Importance Of Gentrification In Jobs

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The coffee shop that knew your name, because you stopped by every day before work is now replaced with Starbucks. The family-run diner that you sat in to have quality time with family is replaced with Denny’s. Shameless, an American tv show about a low-income family, shows gentrification as destroying their neighborhood by bars not getting any clinics, their house that is already overrun gets jacked up in price, and they lose their jobs because schools get shut down and none of them are educated. Gentrification not only throws low-income families into poverty and homelessness it also uprooted family business and families. Jobs are becoming more scarce, rent prices are so steep they are pushing out quirky people that make cities youthful, and are destroying the roots that took generations to build.
Although prices for houses skyrocket from gentrification, jobs are becoming more scarce.
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People would argue that gentrification is a good thing because it limits gang territories and you can still afford nice neighborhoods that have been gentrified but that just isn't true. In fact, low-income neighborhoods are safe havens for people that for generations have made a barely livable wage. By gentrifying the neighborhood they reside in, it pushes them into different neighborhoods or even worse poverty.
Gentrification is destroying our economy and school system but on the books where the government counts it, it's showing up as a huge favor for low-income families. Gentrification is pushing thousands of people into poverty and destroying minimum wage jobs for people without a college degree by making them more scarce. Family businesses are becoming less common because in gentrified neighborhoods they have to compete with corporations that cook for quantity instead of quality taking many customers from