The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black. The Home Buyers Are Mostly White.


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The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black.
The Home Buyers Are Mostly White.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...sity-housing-maps-raleigh-gentrification.html

Nationwide, the arrival of white homeowners in places they’ve long avoided is jolting the economics of the land beneath everyone.

RALEIGH, N.C. — In the African-American neighborhoods near downtown Raleigh, the playfully painted doors signal what’s coming. Colored in crimson, in coral, in seafoam, the doors accent newly renovated craftsman cottages and boxy modern homes that have replaced vacant lots.

To longtime residents, the doors mean higher home prices ahead, more investors knocking, more white neighbors.

Here, and in the center of cities across the United States, a kind of demographic change most often associated with gentrifying parts of New York and Washington has been accelerating. White residents are increasingly moving into nonwhite neighborhoods, largely African-American ones.

In America, racial diversity has much more often come to white neighborhoods. Between 1980 and 2000, more than 98 percent of census tracts that grew more diverse did so in that way, as Hispanic, Asian-American and African-American families settled in neighborhoods that were once predominantly white.
 
The Neighborhood Is Mostly Black.
The Home Buyers Are Mostly White.

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive...sity-housing-maps-raleigh-gentrification.html

Nationwide, the arrival of white homeowners in places they’ve long avoided is jolting the economics of the land beneath everyone.

RALEIGH, N.C. — In the African-American neighborhoods near downtown Raleigh, the playfully painted doors signal what’s coming. Colored in crimson, in coral, in seafoam, the doors accent newly renovated craftsman cottages and boxy modern homes that have replaced vacant lots.

To longtime residents, the doors mean higher home prices ahead, more investors knocking, more white neighbors.

Here, and in the center of cities across the United States, a kind of demographic change most often associated with gentrifying parts of New York and Washington has been accelerating. White residents are increasingly moving into nonwhite neighborhoods, largely African-American ones.

In America, racial diversity has much more often come to white neighborhoods. Between 1980 and 2000, more than 98 percent of census tracts that grew more diverse did so in that way, as Hispanic, Asian-American and African-American families settled in neighborhoods that were once predominantly white.
That will price black people out of their neighborhoods.
 
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I saw on the Nat'l news that they're invading those kids territory at Howard U. What a disgrace....
 
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Instead of chasing white folks to some cheaply built suburb with lessened political and economic power, Middle class Blacks need to invest in and revitalize our traditional neighborhoods. This dynamic is happening everywhere; where first there's white flight then Black people with means follow because they dont want to live around other Blacks...especially poor folks. Whites then turn around and move back pricing out the poor Blacks. I've said it before but sooner or later American cities will be following the European model where the suburbs will be the home to low income people and the inner core the wealthy.

As quiet as its kept, it's not just an inner city problem. The city of Prairie view is poised to blow up because of recent investment from "other" people. A minority of PV grads are crying foul but at the end of the day the city's greatest resources (land and location) sat idle for over 100 years with little to no investment from Black people.
 
Instead of chasing white folks to some cheaply built suburb with lessened political and economic power, Middle class Blacks need to invest in and revitalize our traditional neighborhoods.

I have been saying the same thing for years. Same with our high schools.
 
Instead of chasing white folks to some cheaply built suburb with lessened political and economic power, Middle class Blacks need to invest in and revitalize our traditional neighborhoods. This dynamic is happening everywhere; where first there's white flight then Black people with means follow because they dont want to live around other Blacks...especially poor folks. Whites then turn around and move back pricing out the poor Blacks. I've said it before but sooner or later American cities will be following the European model where the suburbs will be the home to low income people and the inner core the wealthy.

As quiet as its kept, it's not just an inner city problem. The city of Prairie view is poised to blow up because of recent investment from "other" people. A minority of PV grads are crying foul but at the end of the day the city's greatest resources (land and location) sat idle for over 100 years with little to no investment from Black people.

This sounds good in theory, and there are plenty of black folks that try that very thing with neighborhoods like Cascade. Problem is, those same black folks in that neighborhood that you're trying to raise up give no damns about you and if you move in with money trying to improve things, it'll be your house they're trying to break into. On the same token, if its a white person that does the same thing, they won't bother em. That's the main reason black folks with money get the hell on because the crabs in that neighborhood will target you but you could put a white dude in a million dollar mansion at the end of the block and they won't go near his property.

It's already too late for this for the most part in most major cities anyways. In Atlanta they've nearly bought up everything in the inner city that identified as black that's worth getting. The West end, Vine City, Bankhead, etc. Also it's easy to say instead of following the white folks to the burbs reinvest, but where are you going to live while you're trying to improve the area? What you gonna do about the schools in the meantime? Don't know how things work else where but here people leave the city because the crime is shit, the schools are better and you get more home for your money. Hell we have a large portion of the inner city under black leadership but sometimes that's even worse than it is with the white folks. From the grade changing cheating scandal that a ton of people got locked up for to the increasing (for whatever reason this year) murder rates in the inner city.

You are right about the suburbs turning into the ghetto though, already has happened here. Clayton County, parts of DeKalb, etc are as bad as they come now. But I mean at the end of the day the unfortunate truth is, where ever those poor black folks end up is where the majority of your crime is going to be. And where ever those areas are they will either be avoided by everyone else (including black folks with money) or gentrified.
 
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