White flight? Suburbs lose young whites to cities

[DaemonSeid]

Originally Posted by Kevin

This particular area was gentrified not really by the force of large corporations, or really any corporations. It was mainly property owners who got together and cooperated with the OKC Police to get rid of all the crime in the area. Citizens would constantly patrol the neighborhood with video cameras, calling the cops and turning over excellent video evidence. It didn't take long at all to clean the place up.

That's not really gentrification or more to the point a poor example of it.

What is the demographic make up of people living there now vs 30 years ago?

Originally Posted by Kevin

As far as schools, I can't speak for Baltimore Public Schools and their overcrowdedness. That's a city/state issue for those of you in Baltimore. (no shit, really??)

My experience is that gentrification has been great for my city, it's improved it in all aspects and charter schools here are excellent.

That may not be the case in Philadelphia or Baltimore.

And that is our point is that it may have been great for YOU...but that doesn't fly too well in larger, more diverse cities. Many places where this has occurred on the east coast the demographics changed drastically within 10 years. There are still many counties here in MD that are fighing against the exodus of low income people from the city to the surrounding areas and many that are trying to stay are barely hanging on. My mom had to sell 2 houses that she owned below what she paid for them because of this and the 'fun' part is although the places that bought them are trying to sell them back, they won't make any profit because the areas they are trying to sell them in isn't growing...so how is this working out for everyone?

heh.

Stick with what you know.