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Receipe for Stopping Gentrification
I don't need to attend the MHNA Gentrification Workshop to know how to block more uppity white folks from moving into Mt. Hope.
Here's how to stop further gentrification:
-- Continue to tie the police's hands in fighting crime.
-- Continue to allow open air drug markets throughout the neighborhood
-- Continue to litter the streets, sidewalks and private property.
-- Continue to spread graffiti.
-- Continue to reelect Kevin Jackson.
If this simple recipe is followed.you can bet that any sane, affluent person who has done a minimum of homework will not be buying property in Mt. Hope.
Peter C.
Posted at August 30, 2007 4:16 PM
Ah, Peter, you see, or fail to see, that in a market driven economy (thank god [the one I don't believe in] for the market driven economy) that all your reasons are not enough to drive away people who wish to buy an affordable home in an up and coming neighborhood that is so well situated that the market has decided, finally, that it's ghetto days are over.
You've heard of Social Darwinism? Biological evolution. Science's dirty little secret?
Bear witness, right here in Mt. Hope.
Adapt or be left behind. It's been the way of the world forever.
Where do you think the phrase "Tough Titty" came from?
Posted by: John at August 30, 2007 11:39 PM