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Originally Posted by bilbao58
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.
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Thats not true everywhere; particularly in some of the city neighborhoods further away from the city where black people have been moving for reasons such as schools or larger housing in the suburbs or crime issues....like their white counterparts..this is true in Chicago, Detroit, Philadelphia and many other places.
It may come as a shock but not all Black families are perpetual helpless victims like some like to portray and some do make their own choices.
Of course there are poor Blacks; but we often ignore a black middle class that can and do make choices.
For example, my family left inner city Philadelphia to move to a
more expensive suburb for the schools. This is common enough.
The neighborhood we left did not gentrify. And most of the South Side of Chicago is not gentrifying, and neither is N.W. Detroit, or Mattapan or Southwest Philadelphia or South west Atlanta...all neighborhoods that have experienced black flight, by choice.
Not to mention Black families who have made their own decision to move down south....by choice.
Black families are not forced to live in mcmansions in Upper Marlboro or Lithonia or wherever.
Black Flight is a thing.
(Long time lurker, lol, this topic compelled me)