{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "If by gentrification you mean gentrification by Asians and Hispanics and in a very few locations whites, sure. If you look at...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/168519164683/", "html": "<div class=\"question\"><strong>Anonymous</strong> asked: If by gentrification you mean gentrification by Asians and Hispanics and in a very few locations whites, sure. If you look at internal migration maps people are flooding away from New York and other Northeastern areas, Chicago, Los Angeles, and into suburban cities and suburbs like Florida, Texas, Phoenix, Denver, etc.</div>\n<p>I\u2019m aware of the Sun Belt, AND YET if we\u2019re talking about the sort of urban decay that people would film as such we\u2019re talking like boarded-up townhouses and crumbling, graffitied brick factories with broken windows</p><p>and in major American cities that had such a stock (less so, say, Camden) the amount of that stuff is decreasing, under pressure to repurpose it for residents who are, relative to previous inhabitants, \u201cgentry\u201d, who one generation earlier likely would have resided in suburbs</p><p>meanwhile \u201cwhen you think about it this skyline doesn\u2019t have as much commercial office space constructed in the last 15 years as it should if patterns from earlier eras were extrapolated out\u201d doesn\u2019t film as well<br/></p>"}