Pennsauken (NJ) works to discourage 'white flight' (Tax base apparently fleeing as well)

Philadelphia Inquirer ^ | 1-26-10 | James Osborne

[comps4spice]

I am confused. I thought that racism only occurred in the South. Who misled me?

[trumandogz]

“I haven’t seen those blacks going to suburbs because libtards are moving into downtown neighborhoods.”

“They are going to other hoods or other section 8 housing.”

Gentrification has been occurring across the country for years as upwardly mobile whites move into urban areas that have a high minority population.

The typical pattern is that gays will be the first to take a chance on moving into a neighborhood with lots of minorities and then they are followed by artists, singles, young couples and then families with children.

The influx of upwardly mobile whites increases property values which pushes the minorities out to the suburbs.

[MrRobertPlant2009]

DC has seen this very situation.

When I moved to DC in the 90s, the “good” part of the city stopped around 16th or 15th Street NW (depending on where you were). Logan Circle was a hellhole. U Street was a hellhole. Now, you can buy Million dollar townhomes or $500,000 condos in those neighborhoods and shop at a Whole Foods across the street. At this point, I would live anywhere west of 10th and feel relatively safe. The same is true on Capitol Hill and the surrounding neighborhoods and is even beginning to push towards the Anacostia River.

Prince George’s County - which used to be the home of the black middle class - is feeling the reverse of this as poor blacks in DC are being pushed in that direction.

So, affluent whites are moving in and pushing poor blacks to the lower middle class suburbs. Which will turn them into lower class suburbs.

American cities are going to be like European cities in a generation. Affluent and surrounded by ghettoes in the suburbs.

[erman]

American cities are going to be like European cities in a generation. Affluent and surrounded by ghettoes in the suburbs.

I can hardly wait to be packed in like sardines. I'll just keep moving. I can move anywhere in the world and make a decent living. I was looking at Switzerland and Australia. But with the last kid in high school still have to wait before I can or have to jump ship.