Low-rent areas don't become high-rent areas without displacement. The very existence of an anti-gentrification movement proves that many people have been harmed in some way, enough to make them angry and organized. It's not as bad in Austin as SF, but it's happening. I was pretty sure that was you? I seem to remember something like that. Anyway, the point is, someone acting as a gentrifier even if they don't intend to isn't going to directly experience the problems associated with gentrification, because they are on the positive end. What a gentrifier perceives as good for them and good for the area is pretty well aligned with what the previous residents see as problematic things that force them out.No they aren't. I mean, some are, a small few -- but the rest are vastly benefiting from living in a City with a capital C. I could list a dozen ways. And Austin has handled the transition smoothly.
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