Discussion of article "Gentrification", from internet readings for September 17.

Upon reading this article entitled "Gentrification", by Tom Slater I was sort of confused. I was a little like what is exactly going on and if I can figure out exactly what is Gentrification? I have an idea of what the article was talking about, which is basically how the business developers have found a way to push or move people from poor neighboring cities which have slummed a little bit to become better and bigger if the developers can just move the poor out of the way.

The article seems to imply that in order to make these cities better and improve them with business is to replace the old wit the new. Which means in a sense that one has to get rid of the bad, old and stuff that does not belong and replace it with new homes, businesses and ideas that would then bring more people and possibly a better class of persons into an area. In order to do this, those same persons who have not had a place to go before still will not have a place to go when Gentrification begins. The poor/lower middle class will be disbursed and left without possibly a place to live. With that said, if one does not have a place to live some could possibly loose their jobs because of Gentrification taking place in their area.

If one starts to think about the neighborhoods who have people who live there that are poorer, and Gentrification starts those same people might not want to leave and this can cause a fight/riots or disagreements. Persons starting these fights, riots and when that happens the police tend to get involved. That causes an increase in violence, criminals and brutality. When Gentrification happens more people tend to get arrested and put into the jail system. This causes a higher rate of people that could be unable to get a jobs because of felonies and the end result is that those same people will have no place to go. That number of people can rise substantially. The process just repeats itself in Gentrification. It may repeat itself in the same area in some way shape or form or it may move from one area to another. That is what I believe to be some what true when I think of how Gentrification can affect some one's lives.