Gentrification Nation

A documentary about gentrification in Echo Park with a focus on local businesses, real estate, racial tension, and class struggle. Written and directed by Sinziana Velicescu with the help of Marvin Arias and Chelsea Zeffiro.

Category:

Education

Tags:

• gentrification
• globalization
• echo park
• los angeles
• business
• economy
• race relations
• real estate
• class struggle
• division of class
• latino
• evil monito
• django reinhardt
• smokey miles
• violeta parra

[BabyGirlGoddess]

@Matthewrobertcook

i agree with this. this is one of the reasons why i don't really like gentrification. it seems that people don't care about a neighborhood until richer residents move in.

[savemyplaylist]

@blacksheep185 college so they can get a skill set that requires an IQ greater than 4

[savemyplaylist]

dirty spicks should learn to speak English, then they'd make more money.

[outlawstarOSTT]

is dis the same echo park from the book Locas

[italiaholic]

Improvement is rarely for the poor? Are poor people entitled to a beautiful, well groomed neighborhood? No, because no one is entitled anything. If you want something nice, you gotta pay for it.

Trust me, I'd love to stand on the corner all day drinking and playing guitar, but I go to work instead, because I like having money to pay for things.

[Matthewrobertcook]

I agree this is an improvement. There would be beautiful houses, great schools, lovely museums and a safe neighborhood with renovated parks so as to walk their little darlings and fluffy groomed poodles. It sounds like an amazing improvement, but who for? Not the people who once afforded the area. They've had to move away and rent somewhere else. The improvement is rarely for the poor, they start this process all over again somewhere else for future gentrification. Where are their great schools?

[CognitiveImbias]

@cosmonauta2001 That doesn't answer the question I posed in my first sentence.

[cosmonauta2001]

@CognitiveImbias I would just call "improvement" if the original lower-income residents could be the recipients of all your so to speak "improvement". I guess this is not what happens.

[CognitiveImbias]

Here is a question that anyone who speaks out against gentrification must be able to answer: how do you improve a neighborhood without raising property values, and rent by extension? Schools get better? Rent goes up. Crime goes down? Rent goes up. Houses get renovated? Rent goes up. Museum opens up near by? Rent goes up. New hospital is built? Rent goes up. "Gentrification" is just another word for "improvement."

[blacksheep185]

where do those who were from presumably lower socio-economic status go when those "hip and trendy" people offer a higher paying rent?