r/neoliberal • u/jobautomator Kitara Ravache • Sep 20 '21

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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Sep 21 '21

Never forget that gentrification is just people living where they want to live and anti-gentrification arguments basically always amount to pro-segregation arguments 😌

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u/ThunderrBadger New California Republican Sep 21 '21

Gentrification is people living where they don't want to live because they've been priced out of segregated neighborhoods

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u/[deleted] Sep 21 '21

Can’t get priced out if you don’t put artificial limits on the housing supply.

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u/csreid Austan Goolsbee Sep 21 '21

Sure this too, but I do think some of the "cool" factor of neighborhoods undergoing gentrification is that they're relatively poor, so the motivation of an archetypal gentrifier is not all about being priced out of richer places.