its terrible, not just the lack of affordable homes, but they are demolishing history, philly is a historical city and all the new construction is ugly asf and looks the same, but its somehow over $1 million
Why is nobody talking about the fact that it's not people or families doing this but DEVELOPERS who don't give a shit about the neighborhood and don't plan on living here for a minute. They buy cheap houses, cheaply renovate them, or tear them down and cheaply replace them and then flip them. This is why they ALL look the same and they ALL look dumb. They're making their money (thanks partly to the tax abatements), and getting on their way. When all these houses start looking like shit in 10-20 years because they were mostly only "improved" cosmetically as cheaply as possible, that will be someone else's problem bc the developers will be long gone.
I’m white and I can’t even afford an apartment in philly and I work overtime. Rich greedy business owners that don’t pay a living wage are the problem.
I live in South Philly for a long time 20 years ago didn't nobody want to invest in nothing I think South Philly looks much much better 👌👌👌PHILLY ALEEK 😎😎😎😎😎✌✌✌✌✌
I think to certain degree not all some white people field that minorities don't care about their neighborhood so why fix it up for them they're just going to tear it down
I was born and raised in South Philly along with *EVERYONE* in my family. This young dude talking as if "white people" moved in and are "taking it" from the black community is nonsense. He's failing to look past the facade he sees and reveal the real common denominator; money. This dude is too young to know what the ex-mayor John Street was buying homes on the cheap by asking for deals on mortgages. John Street is black. The main issue with Philly is the lack of actual community. There use to be a period when people would come out together and clean the streets up; all races. They would scrub the steps, pavements, etc. then people stop owning their homes an as a result, they stopped caring.
I'm not too young, and my family EVERYONE was in South philly as well. In certain neighborhoods, there were no white people, and in certain neighborhoods, there were no black people. It is what it is. They are trying to move the black community out now. Most of them don't own they homes. That's a fact. The money part you speak of is correct; they new houses, and all this new shit is to move them out. It's geared towards white people with money, and that's a fact. Most of the new houses that have been put up are occupied by white tenants. It is what it is. It's also the truth.
@@nic1873 you mean it’s geared towards people with money because the people selling the property are looking to make a profit. I’m sure they would be happy to sell to a black family. It’s like how Cosby can get out of jail.
My son lives on Manton Street, next to Gold Star Park. Incredible home.Even has solid gold dedicated parking spot.3 Blocks to Pats, Italian Market,he used to live near the mummers,that was nuts. South Philly to me is the safe Italian neighborhood. Family controlled.
This young man know what he’s talking bout he just can’t articulate for the common folk but I understand his struggle and I’m only 5 miles away in university city all we ever had was a Rec center I understand these guys struggle becuz we lost everything we had to some shit we never own let’s unite and love one another like we should ✊🏾👊🏽
While I was watching the older dude with the black hat and stripe pink shirt, he said something that was out right confusing. Basically, "When black people live there, the lots where empty. Then white people buy it up and gentrify the area." Why didn't anyone in the black community "buy it"? Legal reasons? Now if you claim "money reasons", let me share what Jay-Z said.. "You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it" I guess Jay-Z knew his knowledge wasn't going to be listen to... "But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for nine ninety-nine"
Yea man a lot of our people truly wanna see change in our communities... but in order for that to happen our people have to let go of that victim mentality woah was us shit cause it’s never gonna get us anywhere
The problem with gentrification is that it forces people from runned downed areas into neighborhoods that are already struggling. The lower skilled people who have been displaced often bring the crime and the problems that you often hear from Philadelphia into the suburbs. This is one of the reasons why areas like Southeastern Delaware County, and the surrounding area can't get ahead. There are some parts of Delaware County that are now starting to look as bad as how Philly did in the late 60's and 70's. Gentricificaton only brings oppression and blight to areas that are already struggling.
And this is something people don’t understand when you talk about gentrification a lot of smaller cities and suburbs don’t have the means to gentrify so when these hood dudes a get pushed out to these places it often exacerbates issues that had already been bruins in these places for years
So do you agree that businesses getting money from the government is a problem then? Because one of the biggest reasons for this gentrification is government welfare to the developers. They get all kinds of grant money to build this stuff. Subsidies for "low income housing" that ends up costing well over 100K to the buyer. Subsidies for all kinds of crap. If you have a problem with the government trying to support folks on hard times and prevent them from starving, you obviously would also agree that the rampant corporate welfare that supports gentrification is a problem too, right? I guess you only didn't mention it because it's so obvious.
@@sebastien3411 the problem with welfare is not the people who have hit a rough time or the people who just need something to get buy it’s the folks who take advantage of the system and get on welfare with not intention to get off welfare was never meant to b a permanent thing for people but it has become one those people I mentioned on welfare are literally now better than the business developers you described
Wealthy people dont care about your problems.. Fix up your neighborhoods or some other people will.. Make money there or someone else will.. Get money!$$
Real Estate Student feel bad for the old heads, but young man in red- it’s really not too late todo this sequence: GED, cheap community college- transfer to Temple (study hard), apply to Ivy League like Penn or Princeton ( use scholarships +pell grants) choose a pragmatic professional degree- business, Law, or medicine- come back and reinvest and inspire your community
Smh clearly you’re white and ignorant hiding behind a black profile pic and when white ppl get robbed in the hood they just moved into keep that same energy
If you were paying attention. You heard them say, "New residents get tax abatements." How do you offer new residents tax abatements but not the people who are still there. And have been there all along?
It's not good to steal people neighborhood, I never felt racism till this horrible gentrification came along, how disguising, I don't understand how these people can live with their self 😟🙄🤔
A bill was passed to allow developers certain ways to get financing with certain terms that cleared the way for gentrification, to keep us on the move.
1:29 He literally answers your question less than 2 minutes into the video. Property taxes go up on all the old houses. They don't get the abatement. They've been reassessing values over the past decade. Look up the Actual Value Initiative. Some places went up by more than 500%. Not that's not a typo. Look this stuff up. Also, lots of folks can't afford to buy a house. Don't kid yourself into thinking banks are falling over to give mortgages to working class folks living in these neighborhoods.
I don't have a problem with development or diversity, but I do have a problem with criminal inequity. The tax abatement for new construction includes big multibillion dollar business. This must end! Increasing property taxes of homes that have not been remodeled based on the value of new construction in the area alone is criminal. The biggest poorest city in the nation by design.
I came up in SP. Alot of residents let thier homes and hoods go down. Homes lost to sheriff sales and non paid taxes. Olds still in prison for corners they killed or died for. Buy and invest and change your community for the better, and you will get the respect or move to a new place like the italians who left SP. 9th street is like asian and latino now.and good hoods are turning bad.
I truly believe in change for the better of "ALL PEOPLE" and not for just the people who have money. However, I also take a look around and see that the people moving into these neighborhoods are not the ones who destroyed them. I am a native Philadelphian and over the years I have seen this city go from a place of pride, to looking like a third world country! Let's not put the blame on no one but ourselves when you have people that live on the same block using the sidewalks as trashcans, and alleys as dumping grounds, but no one does a damn thing about it! I moved to DC years ago and to be honest, DC's worst neighborhoods look like paradise compared to Philly. So let's stop complaining about what's happening and get off your asses and do something about it! "The only people that can change a neighborhood are the people who live in it."
I am from South Philadelphia and I lived at 24th and Lombard. My old hood has been changed by the gentrification avalanche. It’s become an adjunct of Disneyland on the Schuylkill. Honestly,as a white working class person, I totally empathize with the people being displaced.
And here's the part where the white colonizers tell you what they really think about African Americans - in the comments. Loans to improve neighborhood housing and businesses have been inaccessible to African Americans forever. The improvement to the inner city is all being done because white suburbians no longer want to or aren't able to pay the exhorbitant taxes when they live outside the city but work inside of it. So, they want Philly back now. They have the means and the entire backing of governmental systems to support them. Yes, they do want your neighborhood...they want to go to fancy restaurants, be vegan, let their children play on the new and improved playgrounds, etc. Soon they"ll reopen the closed school buildings as charters that only their little colonizers can gain admission to. And they will look at us like we have two heads and a tail for having the nerve to continue to live in the neighborhoods they are now colonizing. SMH
Gentrification is a win-win. The cities are returning to the economic and sophisticated centers they were before white flight and always had been throughout history Poor people who moved to the cities in the 1950's have acquired enough exposure to do better now; only about 25% of them take the ghetto mentality to their new situations--mostly up-and-coming southern cities.
What has to change is our collective thinking n mind set.. The words you spoke we all feel that way but.. it ain't where you from, it's where you at, we will always be popping young
Yooo Ryan! It's Andrew from Last Year's Producing and Directing class! Was looking around more about Philly neighborhoods and ran into this, great documentary my guy!
What these people don't get is if you want it buy it and get a job get off the food stamps! They can't push you out if you own it but you don't own shit so they moved you out!
This is so true! I’m from 12th and christian down south philly and growing up down there I never saw 1 white person. Now 2019 I go visit family.....aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends who watched me grow up and lived in south philly their whole lives be pushed out of our hood because their raising the taxes on the houses to high that they cant afford it smh. It’s really sad and makes me cry
I've been poor all my adult life, but I'm in school now to become a civil engineer. I made that decision in part because I saw how infrastructure is often built in ways that cut off certain neighborhoods and privilege people who already have advantages. That's not right. I would like to move to Philadelphia with my partner after I graduate. We visited and absolutely adored the place, particularly South Philly. I love the people in this video and would love to have them as neighbors. What could I do to fix the problems they're talking about? Is the only option not moving to Philly, or or are there ways to get involved in the community to mitigate the effects of gentrification, even as a gentrifier? I'm 100% sincere asking this. Any insights from the people affected are appreciated.
None. The issue is money. And also they are used to the same ol same ol. Life is not like that. They have no idea how good they have it here. We need to teach the kids about money so they won't whine or complain that life is getting expensive.
This is because lots running from new york new jersey s high taxes. Im a senior homeowner born raised here. Most new people are not even friendly not all. Been and owned my home 42yrs.
I'm from Passyunk Homes, South Philly, Penrose Avenue on one side, and the oil refinery on the other, the City of Philadelphia condemned it,terming it,"Un-Safe", and forced the evictions of many, and then,turn around and build expensive condo-like homes and renaming the streets with names like,"Rome Street, Calabria Way,,,"!!!---OUR neighborhood had Very close proximity to the airport, Spectrum, Stadium, Navy Base, The Lakes, the docks,Walt Whitman Bridge, and I could go on,,,... Gentrification of South Philly. ? Oh yeah'.I know-
You see the avg price of a rowhome in Bella Vista ? 300k and up. I lived at 7th and Kimball and my old home went for 350k. My house on 13th and Latona just sold last year for 310k. Crazy
Who made this Doc I would love to get together. I’m from South Philly I’m Italian and you got to see what’s happening up North Philly it’s worse then South Philly. Us people who are Born and raised around the way need to come together and fight these Hipsters who think they can buy the Philly lifestyle.
@@AJ-tk7ps they want to buy the lifestyle though they don’t want to earn it. The blood sweat and tears that build character that come along with actually being from around the way is something that can’t be bought. Not for nothing I dunno if I would even wanna buy it if i could I saw tons of my friends die. We gave Philly that “edge” that they talk about. But they want us out of the city so they can claim they are actually from Philly without anyone contesting it.
I know me too I used to live in those projects I think they were on 4th or 5th Street that's what a lot of people don't understand a lot of these neighborhoods well white at first when we move in they move out
Still like that in parts of south Philly , they didn’t go into the white neighborhoods of South Philly (Irish and Italians )and ask them there opinion, who’s been there for Generations.....
The same thing out here in Los Angeles and a minority areas the city cleans up the streets the people turn around and just dirty it back up they clean the Graffiti Off the Wall they write right back on it
I hear a lot of resentment and blaming white ppl in this video and I’m empathetic to the black community who feels this way cause I can picture how it seems or looks to them such as abandoned building or open lots staying like that and now that white ppl are moving in things are building up. And bars with higher prices and rent going up. It makes it seem like esp to a young mind that their forgotten or something But ima keep it real this isn’t white ppls fault. Buildings are going up and prices are raising simply cause money is coming in. When money comes into an area economy goes up and things are built. The black community is also st fault For never investing into their communities. Your community has the power to stop this gentrification stuff going on. Gotta start buying property and creating businesses and start empowering your people. I see all these black folks that make it oht the hood get rich and they never invest into their own communities. And look I don’t agree with gentrification esp when it’s changing cultural citiesof America such as Brooklyn for example.i lived in Brooklyn for cpl years in bed study and it was sad to see a neighborhood like that and a city with so much culture and flavor completely change to a bunch of rich yuppies and hipsters. Now I ain’t black but I come from a poor family and I’m still poor so I can relate in the sense I can picture my self in your shoes. But it comes down to your own ppl from stopping this phenomenon.
I agree with your comment I think part of the problem is the government or white people no if they fix up our neighborhood will just tear it right back down they removed the graffiti off the walls we put it right back on we sell drugs out in the open on the street corner
@@johndavis9321 most Jews came to this country with very little. A father would come first and get a low paying job, but save all he could to bring his family to the US. Education was very important. Get the kids educated so they could get better jobs than the father. There was discrimination. Colleges and other institutions limited the number of Jews they would accept, if they accepted any. Jews that “made it” donated to organization that helped new immigrants or helped other members of their family. There is one major plus Jews had, they were white which let them eventually assimilate into the larger culture - for the most part. Society has held back Blacks. The one thing so many of them can’t overcome. Racism is still a major problem in this country.
@@auapplemac1976 their are definitely institutions in place to hold back and prevent so called blacks from success but I’d argue a lot of blacks hold themselves back more than anything
LMAO LMAO same thing out here in Los Angeles all they do is complain white people's ass white people that they don't want to buy any property they want to buy gold chains Air Jordans fancy cars
Why didn’t this person go into the Irish and Italian neighborhoods of South Philly(that have been living there forever ,generations )and ask them ????? If your doing a piece about South Philly do more than just one neighbor
I speak Russian English and Spanish. Back in the Soviet Times the Gov would take care of the people, control every part of their lives. Some old people really miss that. The newer generations don't like that, they like the freedom. This is a human problems and a Nostalgia problem people can't stand change. Life is adverse, it is a part of life we need to deal with.
race isnt the salient thing here. its class. the two are of course related in this instance, and in most, but it doesnt get to the core of what is going on.
Right and that’s something a lot of our people don’t get yea race is an important factor but just as if not more important is class it isn’t white vs. black that needs to b of our concern it’s rich vs. poor
@@johndavis9321 some truth!? Lol...so I guess it's just a coincidence formally colonized people within the empire are also the poorest? Puerto Ricans, blacks, Hawaiians, n indigenous ppls are here to have a our labor and land exploited, period. South Philly gentrification is an example of our land being exploited.
Gentrification is for the better. Safer neighborhoods, access to quality resources, citizens who actually care about the area, and diverse families are needed for neighborhoods to be vibrant. Where lots of people fail to be is on the other side of it. Living anywhere "cheap" is never a good thing because those with cheap rent could care less about safety or investing into their neighborhoods. So, I urge people of recently gentrified communities to take advantage of the opportunity and be part of the change that's needed.
Did that same thing to us out here in Brooklyn brother pushed alot of my people out and they do look at us like we dont belong here but I was born here they wasn't
Replying to one person but I think more should see this..... Some non-great decisions are inevitable through lack of good choices. On the other hand, other people make non-great decisions too by selling drugs or cheating their way through the system in other ways to buy some of these same properties. So it’s not always about whether you’re making good choices or not. It’s a dog-eat-dog world. In many cases it’s “If you knew better you’d do better”. Beside, the rats, roaches, bed bugs, raccoons, and house centipedes will still be in the area. If they want to spend extra for that, by all means, let them.
Give them 10 million dollars. Then TELL them, they cant spend a penny of it unless they make money FOR the money owner. They would NEVER invest that money in their own neighbor hood because it would be destroyed....……...They would RED LINE themselves.
You hit it right on the nose I think that's why white people don't want to fix up certain neighborhoods what black people live in because they know they will just mess it up and I'm a black person you are also right
I am an immigrant. I came to this country without any money... I worked hard to get where I am. I am gentrification. I bought a house to live in. If you want to pay a rich landlord rent money the rest of your life, have at it. You want to hate me for owning the house I live in??? Go ahead, you might have to do it from afar...
Originally, I was looking to invest in buying an apartment building in Queens or Brooklyn (I'm from NY), but realized I could purchase two bigger apartment buildings (in better condition) than one in Queens if I looked at the Philly area. Both buildings I'm looking to purchase need capital investment in order to improve the living conditions of the tenants, which everyone wants, but no one wants to pay for. Keep in mind, oftentimes, when a landlord purchases a building, it needs to be updated and the costs of the renovation are enormous. Everything (plumbing, electric, etc.) needs to be updated to current code in order to get the CO approved so tenants can move in. That means new wiring, plumbing, installation of child-safety windows, lead paint removal, etc. I feel for these people, I do, but how else can a region be improved except through costly investment? Fun fact: almost 40% of row homes in certain sections of Philly (Kennsington, I think), are in such disrepair that they qualify for being CONDEMNED!! The city knows this but won't move forward with evictions because you'd have tens of thousands of people thrown out into the streets. I'm originally from the Bronx, and if anyone remembers the Bronx in the 70s-80s, it was a fucking warzone...MUCH worse than any of the worst Philly neighborhoods; however, go to the Bronx today, and you'll see a lot of it has vastly improved, including improving entire communities. This took investment, and recently, many longtime residents have profited and made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling their properties.
My man got the State Property coat on, u know he from SP... I grew up on 29th st and we lived in the same hood as the black people n theyre gettin us poor white people out to, stop making shit a black n white thing, its a rich n poor thing.. Same things happening in North Philly.. And the cops been fuckin wit me since i was 8 i been doing bids since 15.. RIP Bobby McGinley a unarmed white man killed by a cop on 30th n reed streets.. Get a legal job bruh, u need to upgrade that state prop coat, they stopped making them 15 years ago
I see a lot of comments about the black ppl. Buying said empty lots and building up there community, but with what? What resources do my ppl have access to to pull that off wit. I understand ALOT of ppl watching don't wanna be made feel bad about this very real issue. But other groups are allowed to have resources to build in our communities that support them 100%. But they already know that, ppl love seeing my BLACK ppl talk NOT do.
well there was a period in north philly where the abandoned homes were $1 in some areas and some a lil more but still under $1000 we as a people have to learn how to come together as a community much like how the asians do it we always want somebody to come save us and help us and change something for us and won't even sweep up the block it has nothing to do with access alot of these properties have been on auction forever those are excuses the same money we give to the Chinese store and the koreans at the nail and hair store we could collectively pool buy one house up clean them up and sell them to our own people... theres a china town, korean area, greek area, jewish area and you can't even buy a house in their community without going through them they own the schools the banks and the stores and control what comes in so it's possible
Stop it... when south philly was rough dudes were making tens of thousands on the streets you mean to tell me all those street dudes and drug pushash couldn’t invest a little in their neighborhoods foh
Store look like it's been there since first rocky movie Rest.In.Palaces King Lord
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its called work.........having a better life lots with trash does not look good and its not safe broken glass, weeds, garbage its so much nicer when they improve our communites children need to see a better life
its terrible, not just the lack of affordable homes, but they are demolishing history, philly is a historical city and all the new construction is ugly asf and looks the same, but its somehow over $1 million
Why is nobody talking about the fact that it's not people or families doing this but DEVELOPERS who don't give a shit about the neighborhood and don't plan on living here for a minute.
They buy cheap houses, cheaply renovate them, or tear them down and cheaply replace them and then flip them. This is why they ALL look the same and they ALL look dumb. They're making their money (thanks partly to the tax abatements), and getting on their way.
When all these houses start looking like shit in 10-20 years because they were mostly only "improved" cosmetically as cheaply as possible, that will be someone else's problem bc the developers will be long gone.
I’m white and I can’t even afford an apartment in philly and I work overtime. Rich greedy business owners that don’t pay a living wage are the problem.
Yeah well I'm black with a doctorate degree and cant find a job worth my salt...so welcome!!!😊
@Pizzurp you'll get yours! Karmas a mother.
@@dr.b1346 I forget what we’re talking about but I hear ya.
It’s cheap to live in philly
@@bobbywomack9357 yeah...in the bullet riddled hood!
I live in South Philly for a long time 20 years ago didn't nobody want to invest in nothing I think South Philly looks much much better 👌👌👌PHILLY ALEEK 😎😎😎😎😎✌✌✌✌✌
@BONG WATER 🤣🤣🤣🤣you never lied 💯 PHILLY ALEEK 😎😎
I used to say most new Yorkers would move to philly because it's cheaper....but evidently they are going through the same struggles as brooklyn .
Contantina46 A large amount of ex-New Yorkers are moving to Philly. Anywhere in Philly is still cheaper than most places in Brooklyn.
You have a renters mindset....that is the problem.
I think to certain degree not all some white people field that minorities don't care about their neighborhood so why fix it up for them they're just going to tear it down
I was born and raised in South Philly along with *EVERYONE* in my family. This young dude talking as if "white people" moved in and are "taking it" from the black community is nonsense. He's failing to look past the facade he sees and reveal the real common denominator; money. This dude is too young to know what the ex-mayor John Street was buying homes on the cheap by asking for deals on mortgages. John Street is black. The main issue with Philly is the lack of actual community. There use to be a period when people would come out together and clean the streets up; all races. They would scrub the steps, pavements, etc. then people stop owning their homes an as a result, they stopped caring.
He ain’t say nun like dat bout white ppl he just it’s mostly whites who can afford it.
@@SunGrowsJ what about white people? Thanks for proving that point. It’s about money
Yeah, I was thinking that myself. great points being made here!
I'm not too young, and my family EVERYONE was in South philly as well. In certain neighborhoods, there were no white people, and in certain neighborhoods, there were no black people. It is what it is. They are trying to move the black community out now. Most of them don't own they homes. That's a fact.
The money part you speak of is correct; they new houses, and all this new shit is to move them out. It's geared towards white people with money, and that's a fact. Most of the new houses that have been put up are occupied by white tenants. It is what it is. It's also the truth.
@@nic1873 you mean it’s geared towards people with money because the people selling the property are looking to make a profit. I’m sure they would be happy to sell to a black family. It’s like how Cosby can get out of jail.
I was raised in Philly for 20 years in the hood then the moment an opportunity to start a new life somewhere else. I took it and never looked back.
I dont blame u at all!
It's all gonna burn during nuclear war
My son lives on Manton Street, next to Gold Star Park. Incredible home.Even has solid gold dedicated parking spot.3 Blocks to Pats, Italian Market,he used to live near the mummers,that was nuts. South Philly to me is the safe Italian neighborhood. Family controlled.
This young man know what he’s talking bout he just can’t articulate for the common folk but I understand his struggle and I’m only 5 miles away in university city all we ever had was a Rec center I understand these guys struggle becuz we lost everything we had to some shit we never own let’s unite and love one another like we should ✊🏾👊🏽
easier said.
Not gone happen...wishful thinking.
Dr.b come one that attitude won’t get us far everyone won’t be saved but we can save a few
@MOB TOURS somebody had to say it 🙏 fuck em
While I was watching the older dude with the black hat and stripe pink shirt, he said something that was out right confusing. Basically, "When black people live there, the lots where empty. Then white people buy it up and gentrify the area." Why didn't anyone in the black community "buy it"? Legal reasons? Now if you claim "money reasons", let me share what Jay-Z said..
"You wanna know what's more important than throwin' away money at a strip club? Credit
You ever wonder why Jewish people own all the property in America? This how they did it"
I guess Jay-Z knew his knowledge wasn't going to be listen to... "But I'm tryin' to give you a million dollars worth of game for nine ninety-nine"
Yea man a lot of our people truly wanna see change in our communities... but in order for that to happen our people have to let go of that victim mentality woah was us shit cause it’s never gonna get us anywhere
It takes money to invest in property and loans that black people are not often eligible to receive.
Credit…debt and usury.
Africa American and Latino American Don’t rent apartment house. Buy property and land.
Save your money for ownership of your house.
The problem with gentrification is that it forces people from runned downed areas into neighborhoods that are already struggling. The lower skilled people who have been displaced often bring the crime and the problems that you often hear from Philadelphia into the suburbs. This is one of the reasons why areas like Southeastern Delaware County, and the surrounding area can't get ahead. There are some parts of Delaware County that are now starting to look as bad as how Philly did in the late 60's and 70's. Gentricificaton only brings oppression and blight to areas that are already struggling.
And this is something people don’t understand when you talk about gentrification a lot of smaller cities and suburbs don’t have the means to gentrify so when these hood dudes a get pushed out to these places it often exacerbates issues that had already been bruins in these places for years
delco is strange because one minute your in yeadon and the next your in haverford
" the pizza place doesn't take food stamps anymore" Businesses and landlords getting money from actual people and not the government is NOT A PROBLEM
So do you agree that businesses getting money from the government is a problem then? Because one of the biggest reasons for this gentrification is government welfare to the developers. They get all kinds of grant money to build this stuff. Subsidies for "low income housing" that ends up costing well over 100K to the buyer. Subsidies for all kinds of crap. If you have a problem with the government trying to support folks on hard times and prevent them from starving, you obviously would also agree that the rampant corporate welfare that supports gentrification is a problem too, right? I guess you only didn't mention it because it's so obvious.
I don't think they give out food stamps anymore I think it's a debit card
@@sebastien3411 the problem with welfare is not the people who have hit a rough time or the people who just need something to get buy it’s the folks who take advantage of the system and get on welfare with not intention to get off welfare was never meant to b a permanent thing for people but it has become one those people I mentioned on welfare are literally now better than the business developers you described
@@johndavis9321 Is this the tired old "welfare queen" myth? The vast majority of people on welfare are legit. Corporate welfare is the problem.
@@sebastien3411 “the vast majority of people on welfare are legit” based on what what evidence do you have for that statement?
3:39 "You live *3 doors down* from a killer, don't get it f'ked up"
EXACTLY!💯🔥
What does that mean?
So maybe it is good that those "killers" are being pushed out. Have you watched philly news latey?
You're cool with that?!:/
I'd rather go across Broad st to Masquerade Lounge. My watering hole was Friendly's Lounge at 8th and Washington.
Stop Gentrification!!!!!
How?
This is a rich vs poor thing. It’s not racial anymore, we’re all owned by Big Brother and are debt slaves whether you want to accept it or not
Facts
@Not A no false
Wealthy people dont care about your problems.. Fix up your neighborhoods or some other people will.. Make money there or someone else will.. Get money!$$
Great Video... I know these people... Born and raised in South Philly.. 17th and Carpenter!!
Real Estate Student Stupid video.
Tell yo boys to stopped whining & bitching
I used to live in the projects between 4th and 5th and Christian and Carpenter and the late 60s early 70s are they still there
Real Estate Student feel bad for the old heads, but young man in red- it’s really not too late todo this sequence: GED, cheap community college- transfer to Temple (study hard), apply to Ivy League like Penn or Princeton ( use scholarships +pell grants) choose a pragmatic professional degree- business, Law, or medicine- come back and reinvest and inspire your community
The people living in these places have had these neighborhoods for 50+ years they did nothing with it. ITS YOUR FAULT!!!!!1
You sound so stupid erase this post, they couldn't do nonthing with it cause they were poor dumb ass
Smh clearly you’re white and ignorant hiding behind a black profile pic and when white ppl get robbed in the hood they just moved into keep that same energy
I’m pretty black last I checked
fuck outta' here...when I come back through south philly, nothing gon' save any oustidevs, and that's it...
If you were paying attention. You heard them say, "New residents get tax abatements." How do you offer new residents tax abatements but not the people who are still there. And have been there all along?
It's not good to steal people neighborhood, I never felt racism till this horrible gentrification came along, how disguising, I don't understand how these people can live with their self 😟🙄🤔
A bill was passed to allow developers certain ways to get financing with certain terms that cleared the way for gentrification, to keep us on the move.
Well these real estate companies don’t exist to care about the well being of people there, they exist to make money.
It's called OWNERSHIP! If you own whee you live how can someone move you out?
1:29 He literally answers your question less than 2 minutes into the video. Property taxes go up on all the old houses. They don't get the abatement. They've been reassessing values over the past decade. Look up the Actual Value Initiative. Some places went up by more than 500%. Not that's not a typo. Look this stuff up.
Also, lots of folks can't afford to buy a house. Don't kid yourself into thinking banks are falling over to give mortgages to working class folks living in these neighborhoods.
Didn't he say something about property taxes?
Joshua Kimber we need a law to freeze tax hikes on un improved primary residences- specially occupied by the elderly!
Them taxes
Well tell your people to give our wealth back. Since they have so much to say.
New Yorkers who were priced out of Brooklyn are doing in Philly what people did to them in New York.
Pass the favor on right? seems to be how many are.
It's very expensive to live in New York. So expensive as Tel Aviv capital of Israel or London UK
I don't have a problem with development or diversity, but I do have a problem with criminal inequity. The tax abatement for new construction includes big multibillion dollar business. This must end! Increasing property taxes of homes that have not been remodeled based on the value of new construction in the area alone is criminal. The biggest poorest city in the nation by design.
I came up in SP. Alot of residents let thier homes and hoods go down. Homes lost to sheriff sales and non paid taxes. Olds still in prison for corners they killed or died for. Buy and invest and change your community for the better, and you will get the respect or move to a new place like the italians who left SP. 9th street is like asian and latino now.and good hoods are turning bad.
I truly believe in change for the better of "ALL PEOPLE" and not for just the people who have money. However, I also take a look around and see that the people moving into these neighborhoods are not the ones who destroyed them. I am a native Philadelphian and over the years I have seen this city go from a place of pride, to looking like a third world country! Let's not put the blame on no one but ourselves when you have people that live on the same block using the sidewalks as trashcans, and alleys as dumping grounds, but no one does a damn thing about it! I moved to DC years ago and to be honest, DC's worst neighborhoods look like paradise compared to Philly. So let's stop complaining about what's happening and get off your asses and do something about it! "The only people that can change a neighborhood are the people who live in it."
Charles Gussom you saying barry farms in southeast is paradise 😂
I am from South Philadelphia and I lived at 24th and Lombard. My old hood has been changed by the gentrification avalanche. It’s become an adjunct of Disneyland on the Schuylkill. Honestly,as a white working class person, I totally empathize with the people being displaced.
And here's the part where the white colonizers tell you what they really think about African Americans - in the comments. Loans to improve neighborhood housing and businesses have been inaccessible to African Americans forever. The improvement to the inner city is all being done because white suburbians no longer want to or aren't able to pay the exhorbitant taxes when they live outside the city but work inside of it. So, they want Philly back now. They have the means and the entire backing of governmental systems to support them. Yes, they do want your neighborhood...they want to go to fancy restaurants, be vegan, let their children play on the new and improved playgrounds, etc. Soon they"ll reopen the closed school buildings as charters that only their little colonizers can gain admission to.
And they will look at us like we have two heads and a tail for having the nerve to continue to live in the neighborhoods they are now colonizing. SMH
femalefreud1 facts they leave out, The predatory loans that were offered to African Americans also.
Same thing with Saint Louis
There is nothing the residents to Ludlow can do to beat gentrification. It's here, now and forever.
Gentrification is a win-win. The cities are returning to the economic and sophisticated centers they were before white flight and always had been throughout history Poor people who moved to the cities in the 1950's have acquired enough exposure to do better now; only about 25% of them take the ghetto mentality to their new situations--mostly up-and-coming southern cities.
What has to change is our collective thinking n mind set.. The words you spoke we all feel that way but.. it ain't where you from, it's where you at, we will always be popping young
I know they keep saying our neighborhood my neighborhood but do you do anything the clean up your neighborhood
Yooo Ryan! It's Andrew from Last Year's Producing and Directing class! Was looking around more about Philly neighborhoods and ran into this, great documentary my guy!
What these people don't get is if you want it buy it and get a job get off the food stamps! They can't push you out if you own it but you don't own shit so they moved you out!
Sad to watch this all over philly
This is so true! I’m from 12th and christian down south philly and growing up down there I never saw 1 white person. Now 2019 I go visit family.....aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends who watched me grow up and lived in south philly their whole lives be pushed out of our hood because their raising the taxes on the houses to high that they cant afford it smh. It’s really sad and makes me cry
@matt Kazz 10th n wolf is mostly Italian
No way I grew up in that area on 5th and Christian late 60s early 70s are those projects still there
I've been poor all my adult life, but I'm in school now to become a civil engineer. I made that decision in part because I saw how infrastructure is often built in ways that cut off certain neighborhoods and privilege people who already have advantages. That's not right.
I would like to move to Philadelphia with my partner after I graduate. We visited and absolutely adored the place, particularly South Philly.
I love the people in this video and would love to have them as neighbors. What could I do to fix the problems they're talking about? Is the only option not moving to Philly, or or are there ways to get involved in the community to mitigate the effects of gentrification, even as a gentrifier?
I'm 100% sincere asking this. Any insights from the people affected are appreciated.
None. The issue is money. And also they are used to the same ol same ol. Life is not like that. They have no idea how good they have it here. We need to teach the kids about money so they won't whine or complain that life is getting expensive.
Its too late. South philly is destroyed from gentrification.
This is because lots running from new york new jersey s high taxes. Im a senior homeowner born raised here. Most new people are not even friendly not all. Been and owned my home 42yrs.
This guy speaks facts growing up in North philly my mom took me to that hoagie shop.
I'm from Passyunk Homes, South Philly, Penrose Avenue on one side, and the oil refinery on the other, the City of Philadelphia condemned it,terming it,"Un-Safe", and forced the evictions of many, and then,turn around and build expensive condo-like homes and renaming the streets with names like,"Rome Street, Calabria Way,,,"!!!---OUR neighborhood had Very close proximity to the airport, Spectrum, Stadium, Navy Base, The Lakes, the docks,Walt Whitman Bridge, and I could go on,,,... Gentrification of South Philly. ? Oh yeah'.I know-
GENTRIFICATION = ETHNIC CLEANSING
You see the avg price of a rowhome in Bella Vista ? 300k and up. I lived at 7th and Kimball and my old home went for 350k. My house on 13th and Latona just sold last year for 310k. Crazy
ex-mayor John Street was buying homes on the cheap by asking for deals on mortgages. Blame him. He owns a lot of homes in south philly
Where’d you find this video? Good video.
Who made this Doc I would love to get together. I’m from South Philly I’m Italian and you got to see what’s happening up North Philly it’s worse then South Philly. Us people who are Born and raised around the way need to come together and fight these Hipsters who think they can buy the Philly lifestyle.
That’s exactly right, they want a Philly lifestyle
@@AJ-tk7ps they want to buy the lifestyle though they don’t want to earn it. The blood sweat and tears that build character that come along with actually being from around the way is something that can’t be bought. Not for nothing I dunno if I would even wanna buy it if i could I saw tons of my friends die. We gave Philly that “edge” that they talk about. But they want us out of the city so they can claim they are actually from Philly without anyone contesting it.
From central Pa trust me i don't want the Philly lifestyle
I appreciate this documentaty❤️
When I left South Philly in the early 70’s South Philly was ALL WHITE. Mostly Italian.
I know me too I used to live in those projects I think they were on 4th or 5th Street that's what a lot of people don't understand a lot of these neighborhoods well white at first when we move in they move out
Still like that in parts of south Philly , they didn’t go into the white neighborhoods of South Philly (Irish and Italians )and ask them there opinion, who’s been there for Generations.....
Pretty sure Christian st was black. Tasker projects. Wilson park was black
Young bul in the red hoody know something. Smh.
Was a old white Irish neighborhood. Gentrification.
False! Broad and Ellsworth been black since the first waive of the great migration
Mistaken with 30th n tasker
it definitely hurts I really understand this video especially living in south philly now
Right bro...Its Da P vs Everybody!
This the new slavery modernized
The hood is a dump I'm so not into places like this because it's too many drama and negative people around that area especially Philadelphia
The same thing out here in Los Angeles and a minority areas the city cleans up the streets the people turn around and just dirty it back up they clean the Graffiti Off the Wall they write right back on it
I hear a lot of resentment and blaming white ppl in this video and I’m empathetic to the black community who feels this way cause I can picture how it seems or looks to them such as abandoned building or open lots staying like that and now that white ppl are moving in things are building up. And bars with higher prices and rent going up. It makes it seem like esp to a young mind that their forgotten or something But ima keep it real this isn’t white ppls fault. Buildings are going up and prices are raising simply cause money is coming in. When money comes into an area economy goes up and things are built. The black community is also st fault For never investing into their communities. Your community has the power to stop this gentrification stuff going on. Gotta start buying property and creating businesses and start empowering your people. I see all these black folks that make it oht the hood get rich and they never invest into their own communities. And look I don’t agree with gentrification esp when it’s changing cultural citiesof America such as Brooklyn for example.i lived in Brooklyn for cpl years in bed study and it was sad to see a neighborhood like that and a city with so much culture and flavor completely change to a bunch of rich yuppies and hipsters. Now I ain’t black but I come from a poor family and I’m still poor so I can relate in the sense I can picture my self in your shoes. But it comes down to your own ppl from stopping this phenomenon.
Also how they took the culture from the other parts of Brooklyn, Harlem and now the Bronx 😭😭😭
I agree with your comment I think part of the problem is the government or white people no if they fix up our neighborhood will just tear it right back down they removed the graffiti off the walls we put it right back on we sell drugs out in the open on the street corner
@Not A a lot of white people are broke tbh now if your talkin bout white Jews then yea that is a convo we could definitely have
@@johndavis9321 most Jews came to this country with very little. A father would come first and get a low paying job, but save all he could to bring his family to the US. Education was very important. Get the kids educated so they could get better jobs than the father. There was discrimination. Colleges and other institutions limited the number of Jews they would accept, if they accepted any. Jews that “made it” donated to organization that helped new immigrants or helped other members of their family.
There is one major plus Jews had, they were white which let them eventually assimilate into the larger culture - for the most part. Society has held back Blacks. The one thing so many of them can’t overcome. Racism is still a major problem in this country.
@@auapplemac1976 their are definitely institutions in place to hold back and prevent so called blacks from success but I’d argue a lot of blacks hold themselves back more than anything
Heaven forbid someone want to upgrade their buildings and neighborhoods
LMAO LMAO exactly
Well, property taxes caused a lot of this .
Please...propert taxes in Philly are dirt cheap.
I love that they get mad about a new grocery store going in. Yeah, thats sooo horrible.
LMAO LMAO same thing out here in Los Angeles all they do is complain white people's ass white people that they don't want to buy any property they want to buy gold chains Air Jordans fancy cars
I thought south Philly had tons of Italians now the Caucasian are now just coming to South Philly
Same thing going on in Houston.
Where do you go when you lose your neighborhood?
Did South Philly High close down?
Why didn’t this person go into the Irish and Italian neighborhoods of South Philly(that have been living there forever ,generations )and ask them ????? If your doing a piece about South Philly do more than just one neighbor
Facts.
They doing this all over the world
Ouuu you went to Broad and Snyder, the K&A of South Philly
Bul said he wants to see a lick smh. That's part of the problem. 🤦♂️
What is a lick?
@@prncessbaby16 A robbery.
@@haasman100 oh goodness that's sad but thank you for clarifying
@@prncessbaby16 no problem. People that think like this, deserve the consequences...
Exactly young and ignorant it's very sad.
You understand money talks moving wat out
as soon as i became an adult all the parks transformed from a shitty blacktop with nothing to million dollar parks
Where my father and his family was from 17th and Tasker it was Italian I’m going back close to 100 yrs
I need Chinese stores and papi and you see why they got pushed
Watching this almost made me cry 😢
I speak Russian English and Spanish. Back in the Soviet Times the Gov would take care of the people, control every part of their lives. Some old people really miss that. The newer generations don't like that, they like the freedom. This is a human problems and a Nostalgia problem people can't stand change. Life is adverse, it is a part of life we need to deal with.
Disilvestro ❤️❤️❤️ MS DOLLIE AND MS GRETCHEN RAISED US IN THAT OARK, basketball leagues, summer camp man I miss our childhood 15 & Morris 🏆
race isnt the salient thing here. its class. the two are of course related in this instance, and in most, but it doesnt get to the core of what is going on.
Right and that’s something a lot of our people don’t get yea race is an important factor but just as if not more important is class it isn’t white vs. black that needs to b of our concern it’s rich vs. poor
In the US you can't divorce race and class.
@@johndavis9321 black ppl are poor because we are black. White ppl have more wealth because they are white
@@JoeyAfrika your statement has some truth to it but it’s way more complex than just black and white my guy
@@johndavis9321 some truth!? Lol...so I guess it's just a coincidence formally colonized people within the empire are also the poorest? Puerto Ricans, blacks, Hawaiians, n indigenous ppls are here to have a our labor and land exploited, period. South Philly gentrification is an example of our land being exploited.
Gentrification is for the better. Safer neighborhoods, access to quality resources, citizens who actually care about the area, and diverse families are needed for neighborhoods to be vibrant. Where lots of people fail to be is on the other side of it. Living anywhere "cheap" is never a good thing because those with cheap rent could care less about safety or investing into their neighborhoods. So, I urge people of recently gentrified communities to take advantage of the opportunity and be part of the change that's needed.
nope... you live three doors down from a killer .....but you don't want change .
Did that same thing to us out here in Brooklyn brother pushed alot of my people out and they do look at us like we dont belong here but I was born here they wasn't
Big Facts
Replying to one person but I think more should see this.....
Some non-great decisions are inevitable through lack of good choices. On the other hand, other people make non-great decisions too by selling drugs or cheating their way through the system in other ways to buy some of these same properties. So it’s not always about whether you’re making good choices or not. It’s a dog-eat-dog world. In many cases it’s “If you knew better you’d do better”. Beside, the rats, roaches, bed bugs, raccoons, and house centipedes will still be in the area. If they want to spend extra for that, by all means, let them.
Raw truth 😇👍🏾❤️💰#noireport
They doing the same shit out camden
You live 3 doors from a killa don't get it fucked up lol
Dude was serious
Oh this is NOT South Philly by the way. Why? No shots of the Italian Markets, Oh Oh more progressive nonsense.South Philly is Joeys home.
When you dont take care of your shit someone else will.
When you set up to have your shit not taken care of systematically that’s what happens … unless you do work in your community shut up
@@MrHimphilly that's a bunch of victim hood BS....also , you stfu
3:10 mark is my momma block been there 25 plus years ❤️ SOUTH PHILLY FOR LIFE 💪🏾🏆💯
Give them 10 million dollars. Then TELL them, they cant spend a penny of it unless they make money FOR the money owner. They would NEVER invest that money in their own neighbor hood because it would be destroyed....……...They would RED LINE themselves.
You hit it right on the nose I think that's why white people don't want to fix up certain neighborhoods what black people live in because they know they will just mess it up and I'm a black person you are also right
Kenyatta pockets getting lined ....help isnt helping no one but himself
This was good!
😂 swing pass Fishtown
It's horrible. They ruined Fishtown.
___ ___ oh damn you went at him
You havent been there that long. That neighborhood used to be all Irish and Italien.
I am an immigrant. I came to this country without any money... I worked hard to get where I am. I am gentrification. I bought a house to live in. If you want to pay a rich landlord rent money the rest of your life, have at it. You want to hate me for owning the house I live in??? Go ahead, you might have to do it from afar...
You also don't have a country at war with you
MORE people owned houses in philly before gentrification . What the fk are you talking about.
Originally, I was looking to invest in buying an apartment building in Queens or Brooklyn (I'm from NY), but realized I could purchase two bigger apartment buildings (in better condition) than one in Queens if I looked at the Philly area. Both buildings I'm looking to purchase need capital investment in order to improve the living conditions of the tenants, which everyone wants, but no one wants to pay for. Keep in mind, oftentimes, when a landlord purchases a building, it needs to be updated and the costs of the renovation are enormous. Everything (plumbing, electric, etc.) needs to be updated to current code in order to get the CO approved so tenants can move in. That means new wiring, plumbing, installation of child-safety windows, lead paint removal, etc. I feel for these people, I do, but how else can a region be improved except through costly investment? Fun fact: almost 40% of row homes in certain sections of Philly (Kennsington, I think), are in such disrepair that they qualify for being CONDEMNED!! The city knows this but won't move forward with evictions because you'd have tens of thousands of people thrown out into the streets. I'm originally from the Bronx, and if anyone remembers the Bronx in the 70s-80s, it was a fucking warzone...MUCH worse than any of the worst Philly neighborhoods; however, go to the Bronx today, and you'll see a lot of it has vastly improved, including improving entire communities. This took investment, and recently, many longtime residents have profited and made hundreds of thousands of dollars selling their properties.
Philly was a war zone back then. South philly was nothing to play with. This why its gentrified.
Me @3:40 🙌🏼🙌🏼😂 real shit !!!!
that's my peoples talking...keep rumbling...I be coming through sunni nuff...
4:05 my ole' neighbor from my grammah's block from back in the day, 2-2 dickinson, yeah...shout to renee, shout to her sister robbin. all that.
Truth.
My man got the State Property coat on, u know he from SP... I grew up on 29th st and we lived in the same hood as the black people n theyre gettin us poor white people out to, stop making shit a black n white thing, its a rich n poor thing.. Same things happening in North Philly.. And the cops been fuckin wit me since i was 8 i been doing bids since 15.. RIP Bobby McGinley a unarmed white man killed by a cop on 30th n reed streets.. Get a legal job bruh, u need to upgrade that state prop coat, they stopped making them 15 years ago
I see a lot of comments about the black ppl. Buying said empty lots and building up there community, but with what? What resources do my ppl have access to to pull that off wit. I understand ALOT of ppl watching don't wanna be made feel bad about this very real issue. But other groups are allowed to have resources to build in our communities that support them 100%. But they already know that, ppl love seeing my BLACK ppl talk NOT do.
well there was a period in north philly where the abandoned homes were $1 in some areas and some a lil more but still under $1000 we as a people have to learn how to come together as a community much like how the asians do it we always want somebody to come save us and help us and change something for us and won't even sweep up the block it has nothing to do with access alot of these properties have been on auction forever those are excuses the same money we give to the Chinese store and the koreans at the nail and hair store we could collectively pool buy one house up clean them up and sell them to our own people... theres a china town, korean area, greek area, jewish area and you can't even buy a house in their community without going through them they own the schools the banks and the stores and control what comes in so it's possible
What about the so-called black leaders that they worship and most definitely the athletes what about Oprah Winfrey
Stop it... when south philly was rough dudes were making tens of thousands on the streets you mean to tell me all those street dudes and drug pushash couldn’t invest a little in their neighborhoods foh
Store look like it's been there since first rocky movie
Rest.In.Palaces King Lord
its called work.........having a better life lots with trash does not look good and its not safe broken glass, weeds, garbage its so much nicer when they improve our communites children need to see a better life
Hey im planning on comming to philly next year.if anyone is free to show me about and for me to contact please please please holla
Four year follow up.
Scottys! Id could never walk in there
U dont.know what you're missing!!!
They moved cuz the neighborhood went to shit.