To the editor: I loved your article on tips on how to spot early indicators of gentrification in your neighborhood. There are some very clear extra clues that you simply did not point out.
Right here within the late, nice Venice neighborhood, we now have $16 blissful hour drinks and new neighbors who do not appear to know the place their kitchen is as a result of they’ve two meals a day delivered to them. They rent folks to do their gardening, sidewalk sweeping, laundry, cleansing, automobile washing, babysitting, window washing and canine strolling.
Even worse, gentrifiers elect neighborhood councilors who cater completely to the wants of the nouveau riche residents and the boutique companies that serve them.
Now are you able to do a column on tips on how to cease gentrification?
Jack L. Schwartz, Venice
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To the editor: Many people may have given you a listing of the indicators of gentrification years in the past, even earlier than the primary horizontal slatted “gentrification fence” went up on my Leimert Park road.
In the meantime, amid all the stylish architectural upgrades, long-term residents wrestle to get electrical, plumbing, and structural repairs, in addition to Web entry, which are important to creating our properties protected, particularly as we search to age in place.
For these residents, a lot of whom have already endured racially restrictive actual property covenants and redlining, gentrification is simply the newest risk to homeownership.
Furthermore, the racial dynamics can’t be ignored, as black and brown neighborhoods had been repeatedly the goal of unequal enterprise practices and authorities insurance policies. The result’s a vicious cycle, as those that wish to keep can hardly ever afford repairs, but when they do promote, they get low provides as a result of their properties “want work.”
When residents are involuntarily displaced, their well being is negatively affected, as is their potential to get to work and be near mates, household and cultural connections.
We want greater than early warning indicators of displacement; we should assist those that wish to keep of their properties.
Mary Lee, Los Angeles
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To the editor: I could not assist however detect smugness within the article, as if restoration, cleanliness, security, and the dreaded artwork gallery with Neutra lettering are actually someway evil aspirations.
Rising up within the San Gabriel Valley, I watched as soon as stunning and livable Pasadena turn into illness, then later grow to be a thriving, stunning, protected and, sure, rehabilitated instance of gentrification.
Simply take a look at different degraded city facilities begging to be gentrified.
Mark Algorri, Pasadena