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cinematicdiversions

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3. Well the town is becoming more white and the historical black district is no more.

Reply to Roy Rolling (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 11, 2021, 08:14 AM

Oct 2021

I mean you can paint that anyway you want.

The bottom line is and it is ironic Progressive policies make a city more livable which makes a city more desirable which makes the city more expensive.

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Downtown apartments housing low-income residents are likely to become boutique hotel rooms. [View all] cinematicdiversions Oct 2021 OP

Gentrification means no workers bucolic_frolic Oct 2021 #1

"More White" Roy Rolling Oct 2021 #2

Well the town is becoming more white and the historical black district is no more. cinematicdiversions Oct 2021 #3

Gentrification disproportionately affects racial minorities, and Black people who are disadvantaged WhiskeyGrinder Oct 2021 #4

The same thing happened in Winchester VA in the 1990's. Tommymac Oct 2021 #5