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"LRTs displace all the poor people"?
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05-04-2016, 09:43 AM
(05-04-2016, 09:19 AM)mpd618 Wrote: I don't think gentrification is necessarily an evil, and I do think the downsides can be mitigated through constructing enough new housing. 

I have yet to see a convincing argument that gentrification is bad. Yes it has it bad sides, but let me know when you find something in real life that  is 100% good. Heck if you were to cure cancer tomorrow it would have the bad side effect of increase in population.

To me gentrification is mostly shifting-of-the-goalposts and mission-creep by organizations whose job is to busy themselves with urban problems.
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"LRTs displace all the poor people"? - by ookpik - 11-06-2015, 09:20 AM
RE: "LRTs displace all the poor people"? - by nms - 01-28-2016, 10:49 AM
RE: "LRTs displace all the poor people"? - by nms - 01-29-2016, 01:48 PM
RE: "LRTs displace all the poor people"? - by BuildingScout - 05-04-2016, 09:43 AM
RE: "LRTs displace all the poor people"? - by nms - 05-09-2016, 01:17 PM
RE: "LRTs displace all the poor people"? - by nms - 04-10-2017, 12:54 PM
RE: "LRTs displace all the poor people"? - by nms - 04-20-2017, 11:28 PM

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