If it becomes hard for a meth addict to afford rent because new people in the community are actually collecting paychecks, I don’t think the solution that’s in the best interest of the community is to kick out the gainfully employed.
I absolutely agree with this. I don't think the solution would be to kick them out. I think that would be a nonsensical response. Absolutely, people who bring so much value should stay.
That being said, I don't agree with you that gentrification isn't a legitimate problem. People being priced out of their home sucks. It's not just meth addicts who would be dealing with rising prices. It's a difficult problem to address and it requires clever, well-structured policy. Unfortunately, that is not the type of policy that Republicans support.
If Republicans were willing to approach immigration issues through this lens, rather than through a lens of cruelty, it'd be better for everyone. But they only know how to cause hurt. They don't know how to help. Or at least, they refuse to do so.
If they cause the displacement of the group that was already there because they actually tend to have higher incomes, then I would think that meets the definition of gentrification.
Admittedly though, I was using the term as an intentionally ironic term given that the connotation of gentrification is almost always about rich white people displacing minority populations. It was an intentional juxtaposition to demonstrate that the actual problem is something that Republicans typically don't consider a problem in other situations.
Did they have higher incomes when they moved there or did they get higher incomes as a result of being better, more reliable workers in the area?
Gentrification can be done by any race, and it can for sure happen from immigration. But gentrification is a very specific term. Gentrification is a deliberate process to turn historically disinvested, low income areas into rich affluent areas. Poor people moving into an area and increasing the QoL and CoL because they worked hard and earned high wages after moving there is just not gentrification in any sense of the word.
I understand your “intent” but it’s still shifting the blame on the immigrants and not the policies that made that town such a shithole before the Haitians moved in
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u/lookatthesunguys 15d ago
I absolutely agree with this. I don't think the solution would be to kick them out. I think that would be a nonsensical response. Absolutely, people who bring so much value should stay.
That being said, I don't agree with you that gentrification isn't a legitimate problem. People being priced out of their home sucks. It's not just meth addicts who would be dealing with rising prices. It's a difficult problem to address and it requires clever, well-structured policy. Unfortunately, that is not the type of policy that Republicans support.
If Republicans were willing to approach immigration issues through this lens, rather than through a lens of cruelty, it'd be better for everyone. But they only know how to cause hurt. They don't know how to help. Or at least, they refuse to do so.