Grace Wheeler’s Reviews > How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood > Status Update
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- the problem with gentrification is that everywhere outside of the gentrified is forgotten. Young rich white people act as pollinators; where they go, investors, attention, and money follow. This leaves poor people of color who have lived in the city their whole lives, left on the outskirts without updated infrastructure, transportation, or funding
— Jun 30, 2026 12:18AM
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Grace Wheeler
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« Im the same way that the suburbs were once inaccessible to the poor, in the near future, American cities will become gilded jewel boxes, and the exodus of the poor to the suburbs will continue unchecked. That is until, the rent gaps in cities become too small to make gentrification profitable and a new form of spatial filtering begins »
— Jul 06, 2026 01:27PM
Grace Wheeler
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critics of gentrification are not proposing we don’t improve poorer neighborhoods, we absolutely should (AKA add new public transport, bike lanes, plant trees, or add a new coffee shop). instead we need a land use system that keeps some land affordable for the poor.
— Jul 06, 2026 01:20PM
Grace Wheeler
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« gentrification is not integration, but a new form of segregation »
— Jul 06, 2026 01:05PM
Grace Wheeler
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- Reagan cut HUD’s budget by 40 percent in his second term, and the trend of less federal spending on critical housing/city infrastructure has only continued.
- this has forced cities to become « entrepreneur » minded, trying to attract companies, billionaires, and young people to move to their city. -> gentrification
— Jun 28, 2026 11:28AM
- this has forced cities to become « entrepreneur » minded, trying to attract companies, billionaires, and young people to move to their city. -> gentrification