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2. The increase in demand for affluent housing in urban areas

Reply to Purveyor (Original post)

Tue Mar 12, 2013, 11:07 AM

Mar 2013

is in some ways a reversal of the 'white flight' of decades past.

Of course, this winds up pretty much being "thank you poor people of color for tending to the neighborhood while we were gone, now find a way to pay triple your rent or move to a shithole in a distant outlying neighborhod."

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