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[ch4s3]

It boggles my my that any time there is an attempt to invest in the built environment of poor communities, someone always cries gentrification.

[TulliusCicero → ch4s3]

They're not entirely wrong: if you make some area nicer, people with more money still start outbidding people with less money to live there.

The solution is to fix the situation with housing:

* Enable vastly more housing supply so there's less direct 'competition' with people competing for housing slots

* Protect tenants' rights to housing stability; if you haven't broken any rules, you should generally be able to stay in your home

[ch4s3 → TulliusCicero]

Yes, I too am pro building more housing. It's generally the people that call restoring parks or adding bike lanes "gentrification" that oppose building more housing.