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A chat on subreddit /r/PoliticalCompassMemes
human
That's what I wish people understood. White flight historically was just suburbanization. The thing is basically only wealthier white people could do it. It's a racial issue due to that imbalance, but all of the actual material problems are related to urbanism.

And *actual gentrification* is the same thing but flipped. Instead of buying up cheap farmland, it's buying up cheap urban neighborhoods.

**DONT GET ME WRONG** upzoning is not a bad thing, and is literally improving, but there needs to be a middle ground between "tear up the farms and drive 10 miles to a parking lot that use to be a neighborhood", and "raise rents to force everyone out, tear down the duplex houses, and put a luxury apartment on the spot".
gpt
Gentrification is great. A duplex getting replaced with more "luxury"* appartments increases the housing supply and lowers rents. 

*they are always "luxury" appartments. No one is marketing new regular appartments. The market forces make the rents drop on the old crappy appartments. In a few decades those new luxury appartments become old crappy appartments.