Health Effects of Gentrification
Center for Disease Control
Gentrification is often defined as the transformation of neighborhoods from low value to high value. This change has the potential to cause displacement of long-time residents and businesses. Displacement happens when long-time or original neighborhood residents move from a gentrified area because of higher rents, mortgages, and property taxes.
Gentrification is a housing, economic, and health issue that affects a community’s history and culture and reduces social capital. It often shifts a neighborhood’s characteristics (e.g., racial/ethnic composition and household income) by adding new stores and resources in previously run-down neighborhoods.
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So we start this conversation, a deconstruction of the words, terms, and phrases that guide our economic choices, an analysis of our responses to things we lost control or direct of like urban land use, displacement, political disempowerment (outside or inside), and a littany of other factors, measureable effects/affects, all relevent and important.
However, there are two sides to every coin and a message in every middle.
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