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Originally Posted by Steely Dan
In some neighborhoods in cities like DC, it's an issue of displacement, but the vast majority of the hundreds of thousands of black people who left cities like Chicago, Detroit, Cleveland, Milwaukee, Baltimore, St. Louis, etc. last decade weren't displaced by anything.They mostly left by choice as well.
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And just by
sheer coincidence rents went up and neighborhoods were redeveloped and wealthier people moved in behind them.
ETA: It's also happening, by the way, to less affluent whites and Latinos. People are being priced out of inner city areas.