"as you can see, much of his desire to do crime is a reaction to san fransicos gentrification"... no. I just see a drug addict who is using anything other than self reflection, as an excuse to steal from ppl he thinks "deserve" it bc they are doing better than him. this isnt survival, this is about stealing stuff for selfish needs and not to survive. i went through addiction and hung out with PLENTY of other addicts just like this guy. It's all about getting high and it doesnt matter at who's expense. and if you can have a built in excuse like "gentrification made me do it", then they are just going to lean into it... nah this aint it andrew. And then talking to the rappers from Kensington who are blaming the drug problem on gentrification but then show a clip of them glorifying corner dealing while throwing stack of cash into the camera is just INSANE... yeah, it a real mystery on why the drug problem just keeps getting worse... why did gentrification do this to them? it's not like what they are complaining about is the direct result of what they glorify in their music... this is ass backwards.
Thomas Sowell talks a lot about why modern Black subculture is doing great harm to the people it supposedly represents. While it's certainly not the only problem, it isn't helping anyone rise up. It's sad.
it absolutely does, as drug problems often follow housing insecurity, which is a natural result of gentrification spiking property values. andrew speaks on this some in his SF videos@@sgtOOX
Gentrifying culture areas is regrettable, but gentrification of areas too dangerous to walk the streets is better than watching them decay. The people in this video are getting priced out of areas that they helped destroy and blaming it on those who are trying to fix it.
You know whats unbelievable? Poverty in the richest country in history. Why no social safety net? Oh wait you dont care, youre a tech bro. Making useless shit to further divide people
Yeah he interviewed them for clicks. Should have talked to a working single parent whose cost of living has doubled in the last 5 years. Lots of that in my area.
“Gentrification” is a big scary word for an increased standard of living. The drug addicts and the thieves in this video complained about it. Sorry, I’m done caring what those people think.
is it an increased standard of living for the people who can't afford to live there anymore or do they have to go outside of the city to somewhere else unsafe?
Andrew it’s not many out there like you. Much respect bro you highlight real life issues while informing people what is actually happening compared to what we are spoon fed
Ikr after the allegations most sane human beings would stop virtue signaling online. "Look at how bad these rich white democrats are in LA making the area less shitty" meanwhile hes praying on women.
Everyone! It's capitalism--the problem is capitalism. When you have a class of "have" and a class of "have not" the "have"s always win. Unfettered capitalism will always serve those with money and screw poor, disabled, sick, traumatized, abused, outcast people who can't feed the market with their labor. The solution is building collective institutions that are organized around shared values of community, cooperation, and inclusion. Wikipedia "solidarity economy" and "cooperative economy" for what comes after capitalism. If we don't start building these we will continue heading towards Neo-feudalism.
@@mvans130nah the problem is everyone wants to start at the top instead of working their way to it. If I work a harder job than a McDonald's employee, I wouldn't expect us to make the same money nor should we. People don't want to work hard anymore they want to be at the top and call shots without ever having the experience.
This is a criticism I have of Andrew: He CONSTANTLY puts this focus on criminals as if there is something more to them than just being lazy assholes who are willing to hurt innocent people because they get a kick out of it. He will shit on actual good people that go to work, pay their taxes, have full time jobs, and take care of their kids, and call them 'gentrifiers' as if wanting to buy a nice house is a problem. He'll call corporations 'greedy' because they hire lots of people in areas that desperately need investment and then blame them for the problems of some violent drug addict who doesn't care about anyone but himself.
I'm very tired of the young millennial/gen z liberal jab (typically creative types that haven't formed traditional careers), of chastising middle class/upper middle class that are able to pay market rate rent and cleanse a poorly maintained/corrupt/dilapidated city.
It’s absolutely fair to call essentially all corporations greedy, in fact they literally could not be more greedy. Their only goals are to make money for their investors and become a bigger corporation. They have no interest in anything except money and their multinational nature excludes them from any kind of politics, cultural morality or morality In general. Greedy is literally the only adjective one can describe them as
@@conormartin3476No, this is idiotic. A corporation cannot be greedy. It has no mind. It’s a collection of people working together to pursue a shared goal, which is to make money by producing goods and services that people value. It’s like saying everyone at a restaurant is gluttonous because you go there to eat. It’s so unbelievably stupid that it makes me question if this is even a serious comment or not.
The problem is that no one is offering real solutions except do nothing. There is demand to live in walkable areas in our cities, but our society is segregated and we have a crime problem. Our government is ineffective, ignorant and lazy, which represents people electing them. What are solutions that can make this situation better?
The problem is when people don't know the difference between good change and bad change. Pushing long time residents/businesses out to build luxury housing and chain restaurants is obviously bad change, but affordable housing is necessary for good change. Too many people see any change as gentrification but at the same time, protesters of gentrification are often downplayed as NIMBYs even when they have valid concerns
Most cities require affordable housing to be built with every "luxury" building though. Cultural awareness is definitely important however more research has come out that the neighborhoods with better upzoning stayed overall more affordable than neighborhoods that did nothing. Like in the video, change is inevitable and a battle that technically can't be won by just stonewalling. Definitely racism and classism plays huge in this also making it a more complex issue to solve.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn Good change and bad change are very subjective terms. Your own example isn't even obvious. Long time residents who live in run down homes and cause problems for the city being pushed out for nicer homes isn't necessary good or bad, especially depending on who you're asking.
The truth of the matter is that investors want cheap land that they can make a big profit on. How do you get cheap land? Well… You lobby politicians to undercut education in an area. Underfunded education creates crime. Crime brings property values down and pushes people out. Then you up the police presence to shove the hold-outs out by ticketing them for anything and everything. Citations also generate profit, so it’s a win win for the state. Then, when most of the current residents have been sufficiently pushed out, you raze the land and invite large corporations to buy up some of the land so they can open warehouses and headquarters. These new businesses will require labor, so then they build cheap 5-over-1’s and rent out apartment units to young people seeking employment at one of these businesses, and you rent these units for 20 times what they’re worth in order to get a quick return on your investment.
The point being not that jack the bipper is correct, he is clearly delusional. The point is that trying to just ignore the poverty of a city’s local populace will only exacerbate crime, because motherfuckers will get bitter that their local government prioritizes out of towners over the locals.
Yeah, the guy making products that a billion people on the planet use (that we're using to communicate and educate ourselves literally right now on TH-cam), versus the guy who steals those products. Which philosophy works best long term? And what's crazy is all of these commentators who empathize with street punks are the same who will go off and opine about Climate Change. Do we want to live in a morally structured world with justice? The drug dealing gang member needs to be corrected in this future vision. Just stereotypical for San Francisco for example to be utterly obsessed with climate change. Turn a blind eye to the injustices all around us, like some gutter punk stealing a laptop, but we're thinking we have the moral standing to hold Exxon accountable? We're not protecting the property rights of working class people in our own communities, and instead blistering idiots are on a myopic quest to stop an apocalypse fantasy they invented and calling it justice.
"His desire for crime is a reaction against gentrification"..you know I was digging your videos but this line uhh..what? Antonio sounds like a crazy person trying to say "hey look what you made me do you stupid smart IT people" while stealing from probably other poor people. He is not hitting up rich people with Teslas lol. He is hitting up every day people like us and blaming it on 'big tech'
And if he was stealing from people with money this would be better? The people with money are working, saving, and investing. They aren't harming anyone and following the rules. Meanwhile this dude is a junkie criminal being uplifted as if he is a good guy.
@@kangaroomax8198 “the people with money are working, saving, and investing.” Dang, I’m surprised you’re able to enunciate around all that boot rubber in your mouth.
@@kangaroomax8198 Yes rob the rich. They are the reason for all of this crime. It's because of income inequality which is driven by wealthy transplants. They don't make the area better for anyone but their own and then drive the long time residents of the area to crime or lower quality of life because they can't afford to live.
Its lowers crime. All the dirty low income areas around me with high crime got gentrified Crime plummeted and the city started to invest into building beautiful parks and small business began to open.
@@adamrasmussen7379 why bother with a bitter little loser afraid of reality like you lol Oof your comments are public, you're a legit conspiracy lizard
Milwaukee County in Wisconsin is quickly becoming gentrified and our sales tax just went up almost 3% at the beginning of 2024. Property taxes un the city proper are some of the highest in the country. This once a low-medium cost of living area, but ever since the new Bucks stadium (Fiserv Forum) was built and the great reshuffling of the C-19 lockdowns, the area is getting flooded with transplants from other states and causing the housing market to be the 3rd highest in America. I can no longer afford to live here and crime like carjackings, robberies and murder are skyrocketing. A 25 year old father of 2 was murdered outside my bedroom window at 11am on a Wednesday last October and I've been trying to find a new place to move to since November, 2023 with no luck because landlords are so fkn greedy in this area and the courts protect them. If you have an eviction you're basically fkd & it stays on your record here for 20 YEARS! Average rent for a 1 bedroom is around $2,000 now & yet the minimum wage in Wisconsin is still $7.25 per hour. I don't feel safe here but can't afford to move.
I think Andrew has jumped the shark here, by being more vocal and targeted in his videos rather than the open-mic journalism he gained popularity from. I honestly believe we need a whole lot more of journalists just stuffing microphones and cameras in areas where they haven't been, and not saying a word. You do you, Andrew, tell your story. This content seems true to who you are and what you care about, but what I found most revolutionary about your content was how much you let the people in front of the microphone tell the story.
@@CaliMeatWagon i think you probably just disagree with him. idk what "activism" is happening in this video besides showing the effects of gentrification. he's not out protesting the real estate developers, lobbying the local politicians, or even making a call to action? the few times he's asked for direct support from viewers for something other than his patreon was to help that harm reduction dude get more supplies to save people lives, and i believe maybe some other individual people, but not any kind of organization that does any real political activism.
Cities are inherently dynamic. They are always changing. Philadelphia has been constantly changing for hundreds of years. Neighborhoods have gone from mainly Irish to Jewish to African American to Puerto Rican to Italian etc etc etc. This is a natural process that occurs in every big city around the country.
The problem is when people don't know the difference between good change and bad change. Pushing long time residents/businesses out to build luxury housing and chain restaurants is obviously bad change, but building new affordable housing is necessary for good change. Too many people see any change as gentrification but at the same time, protesters of gentrification are often downplayed as NIMBYs even when they have valid concerns
Of course you're right, everything is liquid, especially in a country like America, but these people still have a right to complain about the speed at which the change is happening, the direction from which the change is coming, and the reasons why the change is happening. They have a right to complain and to fight it.
Shout out William hights and the Philadelphia city council for pushing the school to prison pipeline which fuels demand for these things to happen. Without billionaires buying charter schools, this demand would have never happened. -former temple student
Everyone! It's capitalism--the problem is capitalism. When you have a class of "have" and a class of "have not" the "have"s always win. Unfettered capitalism will always serve those with money and screw poor, disabled, sick, traumatized, abused, outcast people who can't feed the market with their labor. The solution is building collective institutions that are organized around shared values of community, cooperation, and inclusion. Wikipedia "solidarity economy" and "cooperative economy" for what comes after capitalism. If we don't start building these we will continue heading towards Neo-feudalism.
“For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers.” You sir, are self admittedly a sucker.
This is a criticism I have of Andrew: He CONSTANTLY puts this focus on criminals as if there is something more to them than just being lazy assholes who are willing to hurt innocent people because they get a kick out of it. He will shit on actual good people that go to work, pay their taxes, have full time jobs, and take care of their kids, and call them 'gentrifiers' as if wanting to buy a nice house is a problem. He'll call corporations 'greedy' because they hire lots of people in areas that desperately need investment and then blame them for the problems of some violent drug addict who doesn't care about anyone but himself.
@@PizzaPartify Clean himself up, stop doing drugs, get a minimum wage job, live cheapy and rent a room, teach yourself how to code, spend 5-10 years learning and working your way up the ladder, move into a nicer apartment, apply to Google, get the job. That's what the Google tech bros did. That's the hard path. The easy path is smoking drugs and stealing peop'e shit who worked for it their whole lives.
@@kangaroomax8198 LOL this really went over your head. Not everyone wants or can be a developper. "Oh yeah just stop drugs and live poorly and teach yourself" such a naive take. I am a developper myself and I know techbros from google. 0% of them had drug problems to deal with and taught themselves. They all had a stable background and went to a decent college. "Just learn to code bro" is so tonedeaf
@@chasekania6456 you don’t get it? The whole video and comments are saying “white people are why my communities fail and why I steal everything except work boots”
Love hearing your own authorial voice. I appreciate that much of your work is listening and letting people tell their own stories, but it's nice to get this perspective from you, someone who is there and observing without an agenda, someone with empathy.
That’s exactly the opposite of what he said, he said videos like this help us think for ourselves which is true. The more knowledge you have on a subject, the more informed opinion you can make
I moved to Philly 6 months ago and the cheapest housing I could find is "gentrified" I live in between 2 housing projects where people have a full backyard and > 1000sqft homes, while I pay 2/3 of my salary for 540 sqft. The block is completely desolate and void of businesses because the members of the community here steal and constantly cause issues for business owners. But ya, keep blaming the middle class, rich Bay Area guy who went to an out of state private school. How did that rehab where you learned that no means no go for you?
I grew up in a part of san jose that no one really knew about, near downtown and very quiet. It did have crime though, my dads car was stolen several times and there would be burglaries all over the neighborhood. We were eventually pushed out due to housing prices and gentrification and now that area is so expensive it rivals prices in sf.
Alright ill bite, i really dont care that wealth is coming to these areas that have basically gone blighted. Yeah people without jobs will have to find other places to throw up their tents but that doesnt seem that tragic. Things change, sometimes quickly. The only tragedy in my eyes is if this development quickly gets abandoned. But we know things will change again over time
We're all tired of the BS.... The college communist trope isn't fixing the destroyed cities, people that care about their futures, pay their bills, THEY are the ones that are capable of building new cities and futures... Not some 20-30 year civil rights projects where the occupants aren't capable of contributing to anything, they only know how to take... (I lived off Skid Row for a decade)
One group of people move in and the communities flourish. Another group of people move in and the communities are trashed and gradually becomes a cesspool after all the $ leaves because its no longer safe.
the "gentrification building" meme on tiktok tho is bullshit, most of those large buildings they show are affordable housing projects for locals because there is a severe lack of housing. they just happen to look modern and boring because that's all modern architects will put out
Andrew does this all the time. Drug addict who blames tech people for his problems and justifies stealing to make a living is somehow worse than the person who got an education, got a job, contributes to society, and supports his family. OK
People who work for the tech or finance industry are overpaid entitled man/women children that have no sense of what reality is. You create no real value for global trade society. Work your whole life a blue collar job in a neighborhood thinking the rents would stay stable then suddenly these clowns show up and call you lazy. You begin to contemplate social suicide through extreme drug use and letting that become your purpose. The worse part is the immigrants who get bamboozled and visa marooned thinking you can make it here only to find a horde of zombies and no opportunities. Just the ability to get in vast amounts of debt to possibly get bent and end up doing hard drugs anyway, if you don't do any drugs you'll just get booted out through the inflation or one of your neighbors gone rogue robbing you while seeing not a single cop foot patrol for YEARS. You Americans are truly horrible people
"says, the house monkey" The USA is a slave plantation that creates this insanity. What jobs and "opportunity" exist here? Debt, college, crime, or military slavery. Pick one serf. You weren't born to a Lord. @@josemejia9349
It's not about housing, it's about affordable housing. Developers would rather make luxury apartments with high rent and keep empty units because its a bigger return on investment
@@mannyfresh4622 if we only built luxury apartments then mcdonalds workers would be living in them too because the prices would have to meet the demand. The only reason there is a housing crisis is because of regulation.
How is this a loss for anyone. You own a home? You just made a lot of money. You rent? Sign your next lease outside of town. Its just another avenue for the neer do wells to whine and winge. Why doesnt anyone cover what happens when inner city people move into suburbs and bring crime with them, destroy the neighborhood and drive down housing prices where people have OWNED their homes for years and years? Wouldnt that be a real issue??
Dang, its almost like a city is willing to cater to people that can actually add value to a community rather than catering to addicts doing drugs on the streets. Gee willickers, im really stumped on this one!
Yeah dood. Bettering rundown, blighted, crime/drug ridden areas is absolutely no good. Major cities should definitely deter this trend and promote shittiness - ala San Francisco.
@@batmann2723 The homeless people in SF are usually not local. They are druggies and people with mental health issues who left their homes to arrive in CA for the free drug paraphernalia handouts. This is covered in his other video.
Those gentrification buildings are housing the new transplants and keeping surrounding properties affordable, not the other way. Most cities face the issues of Ninbys preventing new more dense development. That causes the real displacement, when housing supply can no longer meet the demand. So yeah, Philly is building new housing because that initial investment means that the cities housing will not become prohibitively expensive like NYC.
market forces are not a law of nature but a political project. when everyone has internalized the logic of neoliberalism and been programmed to expect limited political solutions to the disparities that the system creates, disparities are bound to get more extreme. the future looks bleak.
i love how you want people to think temple plopped their snooty school in the middle of the hood to rub it in the poor dreamers faces or something. that area used to be a place so nice you'd put a college there, not the other way around.
If it generates money for the area, thats all people care about. People would choose a nice place with money over hellhole that gets you robbed any day no matter who you are.
Isn’t it more of a problem of jobs, education, and other support? If you have those then you should be able to grow with your city, rather than being pushed out of it.
@anywallsocket they are available, migrants do much better than most people living generations in poverty because they actually seek growth. When the Italians and irish came to Chicago they faced many of the same issues, minus the drugs, in urban cities. They built their own wealth and community.
Very simply put.. the problem is that in the majority of places this plan works. If you buy a home in a nice area next to a bad area there is a high chance that the money invested will double as the nice area spreads. Infrastructure is built to cater to the new rich home owners/investors. It happens everywhere. In most cases it reduces things like crime. However the combination of this, open drug use and loose crime laws are the recipe for what you see in SF.
It's capitalism--the problem is capitalism. When you have a class of "have" and a class of "have not" the "have"s always win. Unfettered capitalism will always serve those with money and screw poor, disabled, sick, traumatized, abused, outcast people who can't feed the market with their labor. The solution is building collective institutions that are organized around shared values of community, cooperation, and inclusion. Wikipedia "solidarity economy" and "cooperative economy" for what comes after capitalism. If we don't start building these we will continue heading towards Neo-feudalism.
Its funny. I am from east of Europe. Life in our country is hard. People are struggling. In average guys living with wages of about 1000$ per month. But still we do not have such views. Just some random homeless and drug addicts from time to time living on streets. So the philosophical question - what actually creates such society?
If anybody is interested in this topic from an urban planning, please read Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It's goes into detail about how the government used tools like redlining and interstate highway construction to defacto segregate cities and decimate property vale in black neighborhoods, giving rise to the current situation.
Putting this in a race lens is absolute nonsense invented in the 90's. Do you think other societies don't gentrify poor communities, that it's a uniquely racist American idea? Every society demolishes poor communities and replaces them, about every generation or two. The ancient syrians did this, the French do this, the Russians do this. It's not uniquely American, it's not targeting black communities but poor communities and politically unfavored communities. It's not even a "tragic" thing either, by steadily pushing poor communities around a city it prevents ghettos from being established. If we don't do this, as many western cities are now seeing, it creates ghettos where lawlessness thrives (often intentionally police will allow vice crimes to thrive there to prevent them from being else where). It subjugates people in those communities to terrible cycles of poverty for which there is no escape. In a sane society we would demolish the ghettos every 20 to 40 years and not let toxic cultures (such as gang culture, cycles of violence and poverty) take root there. Putting this into a race lens is just absolute nonsense that ought to be laughed out of the room, especially when you consider for just a moment how this plays out internationally to the same economic conditions. The only reason people like Rothstein even get acknowledged is because academia has been overtly focused on American racial issues, so anything that alleviates the blame on black communities is celebrated and taken factually. Anyone wanting to understand an alternative to this woke nonsense ought to read some Thomas Sowell. Economics explain everything, not American injustices and racial relations.
@@fidel-3470 you are literally the problem. Instead of excepting the fact that American has done some bad stuff you try to rationalize it. That will never fix anything you have to understand where the problem come from.
@@ax1338 "That will never fix anything you have to understand where the problem come from." That's great advice for yourself and everyone. I invite everyone to do some additional research on this topic. Again, I recommend starting with Thomas Sowell. The idea that America's problems with poverty are unique in history, some type of grand conspiracy for racial outcomes, it is just patently absurd. As if other countries do not have minorities who suffer or who are uniquely prosperous. Look beyond western academia's obsession with race and you'll find real answers to the problems within economics and culture.
As for the guy talking about the google techies and their teslas, idk man, stealing from someone that did nothing bad to you is deplorable and despicable no matter how you frame it. Just my two cents. Keep up the good work tho man you do it better than anyone else.
Sounds very familiar try area up by Cleveland Clinic.....opportunity corridor. Take a drive around 105th and carnegie. You'll see 15k houses next to 150k new homes and new apartments for the incoming workers for the hospital and IBM
5:32 shout out to the kid in the Crass shirt tho. True, that kind of activism is usually just preaching to the choir, and does little to nothing to solve a systemic problem.
Honestly, I think gentrification is inevitable and can be good if done right. Bringing communities together rather than working to further divide them could help students and locals. Prioritizing students and those with money rather than those who need genuine help is a business decision by temple and I don’t think that the way there doing it helps. If the school put more effort into making local programs for local kids in the area and the city focused on making the area more livable it could help bring the two communities together. While mental health issues are prevalent, helping to alleviate local stress could also help people who feel lost or need attritional guidance and help
@@ab8817where I’m from Hillcrest of San Diego was the scum of the neighborhoods very ghetto, prostitutes, gang banging. The gays moved in and gentrified it. Guess what it has the best food in town, best art galleries, bars, clubs, and even thrift stores. I’d rather have that then some a holes robbing me cause they can’t man up and get a real job.
@@PsychonautSaiyan why does it have to have the "best" of this and that? why cant it just be a normal neighborhood instead of a cosmopolitan adult playground? that's not sustainable.
The real root problem of gentrification is that the people in these hoods dont actually own the hood, so when the property values skyrocket and get sold to developers they dont see a dime, just an eviction notice. Cities could have policies like, if you are evicted by a landlord selling their property for redevelopment, theres a special extra excise tax that goes to an affordable housing mandate in the area and guaranteed enrollment in the affordable units, so while you might lose your current apartment you are guaranteed subsidized housing in the new apartments going up. Of course in practice cities dont give a shit about the poor and want them displaced to make the areas more desirable and jack up the valuations more. Its slum clearing in the 21st century.
I grew up in SF. My family was all here before the tech boom and gentrification. I’d say it was an overall positive. The properties my family bought went up dramatically. The had their own businesses that they got to charge a lot more for with the higher income clientele. It got safer for a while but then we got extremely lenient on drug use in the streets. Most of the crazies you see aren’t even from here so can you really blame it on gentrification? Most of those people who got pushed out moved out to the east bay. Then you see crime getting worse out there. Not sure if this critique lines up
What about those lower income clientele your fam had beforehand? Who do you think is selling all of the drugs to those vagrants from all over? Who do you think got into office when they saw the wave of gentrification coming in an attempt to preserve their own tribes? Go deeper down with Alice and figure this out.
Problem I see is stopping gentrification once some people get their bag. In the Richmond district for example there should be much more housing, apartments more that just two stories and a garage. These properties are worth a ton now, yet many have changed since the 70s. Small businesses struggle to survive with climbing rents, but less new or young people to come by. Much of the population is getting older, and with that they participate less in the community, and spend less overall, as the value of their home is the most important thing.
Andrew why are you turning political? You used to just interview people and let the subjects speak for themselves no matter what political leaning they had. Now you're using your platform to take a side. Please stay unbiased, there's already too much bias in the news.
All of these buildings look the same, not just outside, but I swear every time I go inside them they have the same interior design and layout. It's not just a material and social problem, it's also a cultural and aesthetic problem, because these buildings really do erode the history, the sense of place, and the cohesion of the respective area. They're ugly and cheap-looking, and their minimalist, trendy designs make me feel sour. The whole process feels like it's happening way above our heads, and I feel so helpless when I see these places coming in. That being said, I really don't like that Mr. Callahan tried to make his opinion at the end about "gentrification being irresistible" seem like a statement of truth, and, while I mostly do agree with his general point about market forces indeed being almost like a force of nature under our current conditions, I do not agree with making the particular issue of gentrification out to be a force of nature...I don't know, it seems like a premature judgment. But I also have no idea what kind of research he did for this project either, so he could very well know a lot more than I do about the topic.
Hate to break it to you but the reality of it is that these building look the same because more likely than not it’s the same builders and it’s cheaper in the long run. A lot of people have opinions on what businesses should and shouldn’t arrive at your city/town but they never seem to attend planning commission meetings and that right there is the stone cold truth.
Developers look at the long term, generationally. If an area is unsafe now, that doesn't mean it'll be unsafe in the future. I think thats why developers develop in risky area, the hope that'll it'll be less risky in the future. Developers are shifting focus to community centered properties - now including libraries, parks, common areas, etc. Reaching out to the developers and telling them community wants - parks, basketball courts, libraries, bars, etc. - might help gentrified communities get things govt isn't providing.
But again- you're kinda missing the point- developers buy cheap, kick out locals, don't care about the city or culture and focus on my white, upper middle class yuppies want without thought to the displacement of locals or actual programs and rehabilitation to those who actually need it. There isn't money in solving poverty or the drug epidemic
Where'd you move to? I'm pretty unhappy here myself, born and raised here, but it just doesn't seem to be what it once was. Maybe I'd be unhappy anywhere I am, but it's worth a shot.
"as you can see, much of his desire to do crime is a reaction to san fransicos gentrification"... no. I just see a drug addict who is using anything other than self reflection, as an excuse to steal from ppl he thinks "deserve" it bc they are doing better than him. this isnt survival, this is about stealing stuff for selfish needs and not to survive. i went through addiction and hung out with PLENTY of other addicts just like this guy. It's all about getting high and it doesnt matter at who's expense. and if you can have a built in excuse like "gentrification made me do it", then they are just going to lean into it... nah this aint it andrew.
And then talking to the rappers from Kensington who are blaming the drug problem on gentrification but then show a clip of them glorifying corner dealing while throwing stack of cash into the camera is just INSANE... yeah, it a real mystery on why the drug problem just keeps getting worse... why did gentrification do this to them? it's not like what they are complaining about is the direct result of what they glorify in their music... this is ass backwards.
Thomas Sowell talks a lot about why modern Black subculture is doing great harm to the people it supposedly represents. While it's certainly not the only problem, it isn't helping anyone rise up. It's sad.
was thinking the same thing. gentrification not good but let's not kid ourselves that it has anything to do with the drug and crime issues lol
it absolutely does, as drug problems often follow housing insecurity, which is a natural result of gentrification spiking property values. andrew speaks on this some in his SF videos@@sgtOOX
Gentrifying culture areas is regrettable, but gentrification of areas too dangerous to walk the streets is better than watching them decay. The people in this video are getting priced out of areas that they helped destroy and blaming it on those who are trying to fix it.
Sometimes I wonder if hes actually making a satire with how clips seem to contradict the message hes saying.
The lack of accountability is unbelievable lol
You know whats unbelievable? Poverty in the richest country in history. Why no social safety net? Oh wait you dont care, youre a tech bro. Making useless shit to further divide people
Yeah he interviewed them for clicks. Should have talked to a working single parent whose cost of living has doubled in the last 5 years. Lots of that in my area.
He's biased towards underdogs and working single parents are expected. But a former addict or criminal changing their life is more interesting.
“Gentrification” is a big scary word for an increased standard of living. The drug addicts and the thieves in this video complained about it. Sorry, I’m done caring what those people think.
found the daily $18 soy smoothie buyer
@@ab8817 What's the insult? That they're able to afford things?
@@alexel7814*afford things you dont need
Youre a redditor you dont get an opinion
is it an increased standard of living for the people who can't afford to live there anymore or do they have to go outside of the city to somewhere else unsafe?
Andrew it’s not many out there like you. Much respect bro you highlight real life issues while informing people what is actually happening compared to what we are spoon fed
Ikr after the allegations most sane human beings would stop virtue signaling online. "Look at how bad these rich white democrats are in LA making the area less shitty" meanwhile hes praying on women.
Everyone! It's capitalism--the problem is capitalism. When you have a class of "have" and a class of "have not" the "have"s always win. Unfettered capitalism will always serve those with money and screw poor, disabled, sick, traumatized, abused, outcast people who can't feed the market with their labor. The solution is building collective institutions that are organized around shared values of community, cooperation, and inclusion. Wikipedia "solidarity economy" and "cooperative economy" for what comes after capitalism. If we don't start building these we will continue heading towards Neo-feudalism.
@@mvans130nah the problem is everyone wants to start at the top instead of working their way to it. If I work a harder job than a McDonald's employee, I wouldn't expect us to make the same money nor should we. People don't want to work hard anymore they want to be at the top and call shots without ever having the experience.
@@mvans130 NIce victim mentality
@@DBailey94 Clearly you’ve never worked at McDonald’s because you’d know it’s one of the most demanding jobs there is.
This is a criticism I have of Andrew: He CONSTANTLY puts this focus on criminals as if there is something more to them than just being lazy assholes who are willing to hurt innocent people because they get a kick out of it. He will shit on actual good people that go to work, pay their taxes, have full time jobs, and take care of their kids, and call them 'gentrifiers' as if wanting to buy a nice house is a problem. He'll call corporations 'greedy' because they hire lots of people in areas that desperately need investment and then blame them for the problems of some violent drug addict who doesn't care about anyone but himself.
I'm very tired of the young millennial/gen z liberal jab (typically creative types that haven't formed traditional careers), of chastising middle class/upper middle class that are able to pay market rate rent and cleanse a poorly maintained/corrupt/dilapidated city.
It’s absolutely fair to call essentially all corporations greedy, in fact they literally could not be more greedy. Their only goals are to make money for their investors and become a bigger corporation. They have no interest in anything except money and their multinational nature excludes them from any kind of politics, cultural morality or morality In general. Greedy is literally the only adjective one can describe them as
@@conormartin3476No, this is idiotic. A corporation cannot be greedy. It has no mind. It’s a collection of people working together to pursue a shared goal, which is to make money by producing goods and services that people value. It’s like saying everyone at a restaurant is gluttonous because you go there to eat. It’s so unbelievably stupid that it makes me question if this is even a serious comment or not.
The problem is that no one is offering real solutions except do nothing. There is demand to live in walkable areas in our cities, but our society is segregated and we have a crime problem. Our government is ineffective, ignorant and lazy, which represents people electing them. What are solutions that can make this situation better?
The problem is when people don't know the difference between good change and bad change. Pushing long time residents/businesses out to build luxury housing and chain restaurants is obviously bad change, but affordable housing is necessary for good change. Too many people see any change as gentrification but at the same time, protesters of gentrification are often downplayed as NIMBYs even when they have valid concerns
Most cities require affordable housing to be built with every "luxury" building though. Cultural awareness is definitely important however more research has come out that the neighborhoods with better upzoning stayed overall more affordable than neighborhoods that did nothing. Like in the video, change is inevitable and a battle that technically can't be won by just stonewalling. Definitely racism and classism plays huge in this also making it a more complex issue to solve.
@@carstarsarstenstesenn Good change and bad change are very subjective terms. Your own example isn't even obvious. Long time residents who live in run down homes and cause problems for the city being pushed out for nicer homes isn't necessary good or bad, especially depending on who you're asking.
The truth of the matter is that investors want cheap land that they can make a big profit on. How do you get cheap land? Well… You lobby politicians to undercut education in an area. Underfunded education creates crime. Crime brings property values down and pushes people out. Then you up the police presence to shove the hold-outs out by ticketing them for anything and everything. Citations also generate profit, so it’s a win win for the state. Then, when most of the current residents have been sufficiently pushed out, you raze the land and invite large corporations to buy up some of the land so they can open warehouses and headquarters. These new businesses will require labor, so then they build cheap 5-over-1’s and rent out apartment units to young people seeking employment at one of these businesses, and you rent these units for 20 times what they’re worth in order to get a quick return on your investment.
The government is corrupt, and actually very effective at what they're paid to do by their benefactors.
So, the guy/thief hanging out in gutter has it right and the guy parking his Tesla to go to work has it wrong. 😂😂😂
That's solid street logic 😅
And all these loser lefty’s in the comments seethe about anyone seeing it differently
The point being not that jack the bipper is correct, he is clearly delusional. The point is that trying to just ignore the poverty of a city’s local populace will only exacerbate crime, because motherfuckers will get bitter that their local government prioritizes out of towners over the locals.
Yeah, the guy making products that a billion people on the planet use (that we're using to communicate and educate ourselves literally right now on TH-cam), versus the guy who steals those products. Which philosophy works best long term?
And what's crazy is all of these commentators who empathize with street punks are the same who will go off and opine about Climate Change. Do we want to live in a morally structured world with justice? The drug dealing gang member needs to be corrected in this future vision. Just stereotypical for San Francisco for example to be utterly obsessed with climate change. Turn a blind eye to the injustices all around us, like some gutter punk stealing a laptop, but we're thinking we have the moral standing to hold Exxon accountable? We're not protecting the property rights of working class people in our own communities, and instead blistering idiots are on a myopic quest to stop an apocalypse fantasy they invented and calling it justice.
When I was a kid, they called this rejuvenation. People liked it when the neighborhood got nicer.
"His desire for crime is a reaction against gentrification"..you know I was digging your videos but this line uhh..what? Antonio sounds like a crazy person trying to say "hey look what you made me do you stupid smart IT people" while stealing from probably other poor people. He is not hitting up rich people with Teslas lol. He is hitting up every day people like us and blaming it on 'big tech'
And if he was stealing from people with money this would be better? The people with money are working, saving, and investing. They aren't harming anyone and following the rules. Meanwhile this dude is a junkie criminal being uplifted as if he is a good guy.
@@kangaroomax8198 you missed my point. The guy is an assshole from stealing from both. Just saying he is wrong about it
@@kangaroomax8198 “the people with money are working, saving, and investing.” Dang, I’m surprised you’re able to enunciate around all that boot rubber in your mouth.
@@kangaroomax8198 Yes rob the rich. They are the reason for all of this crime. It's because of income inequality which is driven by wealthy transplants. They don't make the area better for anyone but their own and then drive the long time residents of the area to crime or lower quality of life because they can't afford to live.
@@StretchyShubitmaking money means you're a bootlicker? 😂
You can still have culture without doing shitty shit tho 🤷♂️
Its lowers crime. All the dirty low income areas around me with high crime got gentrified Crime plummeted and the city started to invest into building beautiful parks and small business began to open.
Nah
@@JStack intelligent response
@@adamrasmussen7379 why bother with a bitter little loser afraid of reality like you lol
Oof your comments are public, you're a legit conspiracy lizard
But what about the poor guys that just wanna steal and get high? what about their culture???
@@JStack yah.
Nice Sam Hyde clip
Milwaukee County in Wisconsin is quickly becoming gentrified and our sales tax just went up almost 3% at the beginning of 2024. Property taxes un the city proper are some of the highest in the country. This once a low-medium cost of living area, but ever since the new Bucks stadium (Fiserv Forum) was built and the great reshuffling of the C-19 lockdowns, the area is getting flooded with transplants from other states and causing the housing market to be the 3rd highest in America.
I can no longer afford to live here and crime like carjackings, robberies and murder are skyrocketing.
A 25 year old father of 2 was murdered outside my bedroom window at 11am on a Wednesday last October and I've been trying to find a new place to move to since November, 2023 with no luck because landlords are so fkn greedy in this area and the courts protect them.
If you have an eviction you're basically fkd & it stays on your record here for 20 YEARS! Average rent for a 1 bedroom is around $2,000 now & yet the minimum wage in Wisconsin is still $7.25 per hour.
I don't feel safe here but can't afford to move.
Ah yes, when the ghost of kyiv was interviewing hipsters in NY
Ah geez dude.
I think Andrew has jumped the shark here, by being more vocal and targeted in his videos rather than the open-mic journalism he gained popularity from. I honestly believe we need a whole lot more of journalists just stuffing microphones and cameras in areas where they haven't been, and not saying a word.
You do you, Andrew, tell your story. This content seems true to who you are and what you care about, but what I found most revolutionary about your content was how much you let the people in front of the microphone tell the story.
Its just that you disagree with him so youre bitching
@@Thurnishaley6969 I never said I disagreed with anything he said but, clearly, reading isn't your strong suit.
I agree. It used to be witnessing the city for what it is. Now he’s telling you how to feel.
I100% agree. I liked Andrew because it wasn't activism journalism, just journalism.
@@CaliMeatWagon i think you probably just disagree with him. idk what "activism" is happening in this video besides showing the effects of gentrification. he's not out protesting the real estate developers, lobbying the local politicians, or even making a call to action? the few times he's asked for direct support from viewers for something other than his patreon was to help that harm reduction dude get more supplies to save people lives, and i believe maybe some other individual people, but not any kind of organization that does any real political activism.
Cities are inherently dynamic. They are always changing. Philadelphia has been constantly changing for hundreds of years. Neighborhoods have gone from mainly Irish to Jewish to African American to Puerto Rican to Italian etc etc etc. This is a natural process that occurs in every big city around the country.
Found the redditor
@@Thurnishaley6969 So being aware of history makes one a "redditor"?
The problem is when people don't know the difference between good change and bad change. Pushing long time residents/businesses out to build luxury housing and chain restaurants is obviously bad change, but building new affordable housing is necessary for good change. Too many people see any change as gentrification but at the same time, protesters of gentrification are often downplayed as NIMBYs even when they have valid concerns
Of course you're right, everything is liquid, especially in a country like America, but these people still have a right to complain about the speed at which the change is happening, the direction from which the change is coming, and the reasons why the change is happening. They have a right to complain and to fight it.
Very cool soyjak. Does your wife’s boyfriend agree?
Shout out William hights and the Philadelphia city council for pushing the school to prison pipeline which fuels demand for these things to happen. Without billionaires buying charter schools, this demand would have never happened. -former temple student
The USA is a plantation. Always has been.
Everyone! It's capitalism--the problem is capitalism. When you have a class of "have" and a class of "have not" the "have"s always win. Unfettered capitalism will always serve those with money and screw poor, disabled, sick, traumatized, abused, outcast people who can't feed the market with their labor. The solution is building collective institutions that are organized around shared values of community, cooperation, and inclusion. Wikipedia "solidarity economy" and "cooperative economy" for what comes after capitalism. If we don't start building these we will continue heading towards Neo-feudalism.
bro his desire to do crime is that he wants an easy path to things he would otherwise have to work for
“For us to live any other way was nuts. Uh, to us, those goody-good people who worked shitty jobs for bum paychecks and took the subway to work every day, and worried about their bills, were dead. I mean, they were suckers.” You sir, are self admittedly a sucker.
This is a criticism I have of Andrew: He CONSTANTLY puts this focus on criminals as if there is something more to them than just being lazy assholes who are willing to hurt innocent people because they get a kick out of it. He will shit on actual good people that go to work, pay their taxes, have full time jobs, and take care of their kids, and call them 'gentrifiers' as if wanting to buy a nice house is a problem. He'll call corporations 'greedy' because they hire lots of people in areas that desperately need investment and then blame them for the problems of some violent drug addict who doesn't care about anyone but himself.
what kind of work available to him would give him the same wealth that google tech bros have ?
@@PizzaPartify Clean himself up, stop doing drugs, get a minimum wage job, live cheapy and rent a room, teach yourself how to code, spend 5-10 years learning and working your way up the ladder, move into a nicer apartment, apply to Google, get the job.
That's what the Google tech bros did. That's the hard path. The easy path is smoking drugs and stealing peop'e shit who worked for it their whole lives.
@@kangaroomax8198 LOL this really went over your head. Not everyone wants or can be a developper. "Oh yeah just stop drugs and live poorly and teach yourself" such a naive take. I am a developper myself and I know techbros from google. 0% of them had drug problems to deal with and taught themselves. They all had a stable background and went to a decent college. "Just learn to code bro" is so tonedeaf
I’m sure no one in a pre-gentrified neighborhood engaged in criminality, until their neighborhood became gentrified.
"Leave the doors unlocked on your Tesla" - wut, the car auto locks unless you leave your phone in it
And then Andrew’s “his need to do crime is a reaction to white people being in the area” was satire 😂
Justifying his criminal behavior. Bet he’s been doing that shit his whole life while blaming others for his situation
@@chasekania6456 you don’t get it? The whole video and comments are saying “white people are why my communities fail and why I steal everything except work boots”
Found the tech bros
@@gyapathat facial hair does not suit you man
Bro thank you so much for shinning a light on philadelphia
Making neighborhoods cleaner, safer and more prosperous. You're welcome.
It’s the Sam Hyde clip for me lol
Love hearing your own authorial voice. I appreciate that much of your work is listening and letting people tell their own stories, but it's nice to get this perspective from you, someone who is there and observing without an agenda, someone with empathy.
Props, giving us the perspective we need to make our own decisions
Lmao you need youtube to tell you what to do
That’s exactly the opposite of what he said, he said videos like this help us think for ourselves which is true. The more knowledge you have on a subject, the more informed opinion you can make
I moved to Philly 6 months ago and the cheapest housing I could find is "gentrified"
I live in between 2 housing projects where people have a full backyard and > 1000sqft homes, while I pay 2/3 of my salary for 540 sqft. The block is completely desolate and void of businesses because the members of the community here steal and constantly cause issues for business owners.
But ya, keep blaming the middle class, rich Bay Area guy who went to an out of state private school. How did that rehab where you learned that no means no go for you?
I grew up in a part of san jose that no one really knew about, near downtown and very quiet. It did have crime though, my dads car was stolen several times and there would be burglaries all over the neighborhood. We were eventually pushed out due to housing prices and gentrification and now that area is so expensive it rivals prices in sf.
Downtown SJ be grimey as fuck
Alright ill bite, i really dont care that wealth is coming to these areas that have basically gone blighted. Yeah people without jobs will have to find other places to throw up their tents but that doesnt seem that tragic. Things change, sometimes quickly. The only tragedy in my eyes is if this development quickly gets abandoned. But we know things will change again over time
We're all tired of the BS.... The college communist trope isn't fixing the destroyed cities, people that care about their futures, pay their bills, THEY are the ones that are capable of building new cities and futures... Not some 20-30 year civil rights projects where the occupants aren't capable of contributing to anything, they only know how to take... (I lived off Skid Row for a decade)
Much love bro, keep making these banger pieces. We need more of you and people like you.
Channel five news we don’t f with custers!!!
3:15 that guy on the left is wanted by the police
One group of people move in and the communities flourish. Another group of people move in and the communities are trashed and gradually becomes a cesspool after all the $ leaves because its no longer safe.
the "gentrification building" meme on tiktok tho is bullshit, most of those large buildings they show are affordable housing projects for locals because there is a severe lack of housing. they just happen to look modern and boring because that's all modern architects will put out
You sound like your reading a high school essay in front of class
lol
I hate how people who work and make money are portrayed worse than people who commit crimes and didn't work a day in their life
Andrew does this all the time. Drug addict who blames tech people for his problems and justifies stealing to make a living is somehow worse than the person who got an education, got a job, contributes to society, and supports his family. OK
People who work for the tech or finance industry are overpaid entitled man/women children that have no sense of what reality is. You create no real value for global trade society. Work your whole life a blue collar job in a neighborhood thinking the rents would stay stable then suddenly these clowns show up and call you lazy.
You begin to contemplate social suicide through extreme drug use and letting that become your purpose. The worse part is the immigrants who get bamboozled and visa marooned thinking you can make it here only to find a horde of zombies and no opportunities. Just the ability to get in vast amounts of debt to possibly get bent and end up doing hard drugs anyway, if you don't do any drugs you'll just get booted out through the inflation or one of your neighbors gone rogue robbing you while seeing not a single cop foot patrol for YEARS. You Americans are truly horrible people
Yup
Criminals are the oppressors .
An oppressor will always blame the victim
"says, the house monkey"
The USA is a slave plantation that creates this insanity. What jobs and "opportunity" exist here? Debt, college, crime, or military slavery. Pick one serf. You weren't born to a Lord.
@@josemejia9349
Calling that guy a part of the creative class is hilarious he moved because he couldn't afford rent or some other ridiculous reason.
If gentrification results in more housing units then it does address the issue.
It's not about housing, it's about affordable housing. Developers would rather make luxury apartments with high rent and keep empty units because its a bigger return on investment
@@mannyfresh4622 if we only built luxury apartments then mcdonalds workers would be living in them too because the prices would have to meet the demand. The only reason there is a housing crisis is because of regulation.
@@theodoresmith3353😂😂 mfers really don’t think through the shit they say
The world evolves it’s not meant to stay the same look at New York
How is this a loss for anyone. You own a home? You just made a lot of money. You rent? Sign your next lease outside of town. Its just another avenue for the neer do wells to whine and winge.
Why doesnt anyone cover what happens when inner city people move into suburbs and bring crime with them, destroy the neighborhood and drive down housing prices where people have OWNED their homes for years and years? Wouldnt that be a real issue??
Keep it 55th street
On hood CUH
Dang, its almost like a city is willing to cater to people that can actually add value to a community rather than catering to addicts doing drugs on the streets. Gee willickers, im really stumped on this one!
Great MDE reference.
Yeah dood. Bettering rundown, blighted, crime/drug ridden areas is absolutely no good. Major cities should definitely deter this trend and promote shittiness - ala San Francisco.
Dude san francisco is like the most gentrified city in the country
@@batmann2723they dont have actual arguments
@@batmann2723 It's obvious the people who rail against "major cities"" on the internet have never even set foot in one.
@@batmann2723 The homeless people in SF are usually not local. They are druggies and people with mental health issues who left their homes to arrive in CA for the free drug paraphernalia handouts. This is covered in his other video.
@@batmann2723Yea and it’s a good place to live outside the internet from what I’ve heard
Why is Andrew siding with thief's? Like stealing others property is justified.
You are truly a NPC
@@Thurnishaley6969 Funnily enough thats such a low effort reply im almost convinced you're projecting a lil bit lol
@@Thurnishaley6969 It's NPC behavior to side with the criminal, are you high?
Critical thinking please
@@Thurnishaley6969 yes the criminals are the good guys here 🤡
Those gentrification buildings are housing the new transplants and keeping surrounding properties affordable, not the other way. Most cities face the issues of Ninbys preventing new more dense development. That causes the real displacement, when housing supply can no longer meet the demand. So yeah, Philly is building new housing because that initial investment means that the cities housing will not become prohibitively expensive like NYC.
It's obvious that my favourite town is way better than Kensington.
market forces are not a law of nature but a political project. when everyone has internalized the logic of neoliberalism and been programmed to expect limited political solutions to the disparities that the system creates, disparities are bound to get more extreme. the future looks bleak.
Communities evolve. Those displaced by gentrification originally displaced others.
Damn good journalism!
i love how you want people to think temple plopped their snooty school in the middle of the hood to rub it in the poor dreamers faces or something. that area used to be a place so nice you'd put a college there, not the other way around.
If it generates money for the area, thats all people care about. People would choose a nice place with money over hellhole that gets you robbed any day no matter who you are.
Andrew's return to the top is some goddamn motivation juice
1000
2:00 bless these dudes, i hope they make it in life
Get rid of drugs, provide actual mental health care, and give people an affordable place to live and you wouldnt have to gentrify
I hate when cities are safe to walk around in.
😂
found the daily $18 soy smoothie buyer
@@ab8817 you gonna post this for the 9th time?
@@ab8817 and the only person liking them is you, hella sad 😭
@@gyapayou’re in every thread it’s pathetic, go outside kid 🤣
Isn’t it more of a problem of jobs, education, and other support? If you have those then you should be able to grow with your city, rather than being pushed out of it.
They have none of those but want all the benefits of having them
@@gyapa yes but i'm saying they aren't as available as they should be ya boomer
@@anywallsocket I’m 25 clown, tell me why jobs aren’t available. Cus they are but no one in this video are the type to go looking for them
@anywallsocket they are available, migrants do much better than most people living generations in poverty because they actually seek growth. When the Italians and irish came to Chicago they faced many of the same issues, minus the drugs, in urban cities. They built their own wealth and community.
Very simply put.. the problem is that in the majority of places this plan works. If you buy a home in a nice area next to a bad area there is a high chance that the money invested will double as the nice area spreads. Infrastructure is built to cater to the new rich home owners/investors. It happens everywhere. In most cases it reduces things like crime. However the combination of this, open drug use and loose crime laws are the recipe for what you see in SF.
It's capitalism--the problem is capitalism. When you have a class of "have" and a class of "have not" the "have"s always win. Unfettered capitalism will always serve those with money and screw poor, disabled, sick, traumatized, abused, outcast people who can't feed the market with their labor. The solution is building collective institutions that are organized around shared values of community, cooperation, and inclusion. Wikipedia "solidarity economy" and "cooperative economy" for what comes after capitalism. If we don't start building these we will continue heading towards Neo-feudalism.
is that the ghost of kiev at 3:16 ???!! 😱
personal accountability is the only way to collective societal prosperity. chooch
In Dallas Tx gentrification has wrecked havoc on historical & urban neighborhoods.
Maintain your neighborhoods and it won't get gentrified 🤷♂️
Make better communities and we won’t come do it for you 🤷
@@gyapa exactly
Are you employed at Ritz?
@@gyapayou missed the point dumbass.
This is a shitty comment
3:15 4:00
U might be my fav contemporary anthropologist my boy
Im not surprised temple bought those properties. I visited kensington last time about 13 years ago and the real estate was cheap.
Its funny. I am from east of Europe. Life in our country is hard. People are struggling. In average guys living with wages of about 1000$ per month. But still we do not have such views. Just some random homeless and drug addicts from time to time living on streets. So the philosophical question - what actually creates such society?
Gentrification! The scariest part about it is attempting to spell the word.
Random image of Denver, CO at the 3:22 mark hmm..
If anybody is interested in this topic from an urban planning, please read Color of Law by Richard Rothstein. It's goes into detail about how the government used tools like redlining and interstate highway construction to defacto segregate cities and decimate property vale in black neighborhoods, giving rise to the current situation.
Putting this in a race lens is absolute nonsense invented in the 90's. Do you think other societies don't gentrify poor communities, that it's a uniquely racist American idea? Every society demolishes poor communities and replaces them, about every generation or two. The ancient syrians did this, the French do this, the Russians do this. It's not uniquely American, it's not targeting black communities but poor communities and politically unfavored communities. It's not even a "tragic" thing either, by steadily pushing poor communities around a city it prevents ghettos from being established. If we don't do this, as many western cities are now seeing, it creates ghettos where lawlessness thrives (often intentionally police will allow vice crimes to thrive there to prevent them from being else where). It subjugates people in those communities to terrible cycles of poverty for which there is no escape. In a sane society we would demolish the ghettos every 20 to 40 years and not let toxic cultures (such as gang culture, cycles of violence and poverty) take root there.
Putting this into a race lens is just absolute nonsense that ought to be laughed out of the room, especially when you consider for just a moment how this plays out internationally to the same economic conditions. The only reason people like Rothstein even get acknowledged is because academia has been overtly focused on American racial issues, so anything that alleviates the blame on black communities is celebrated and taken factually. Anyone wanting to understand an alternative to this woke nonsense ought to read some Thomas Sowell. Economics explain everything, not American injustices and racial relations.
@@fidel-3470why are you so stupid?
@@fidel-3470 you are literally the problem. Instead of excepting the fact that American has done some bad stuff you try to rationalize it. That will never fix anything you have to understand where the problem come from.
@@ax1338 "That will never fix anything you have to understand where the problem come from." That's great advice for yourself and everyone. I invite everyone to do some additional research on this topic. Again, I recommend starting with Thomas Sowell. The idea that America's problems with poverty are unique in history, some type of grand conspiracy for racial outcomes, it is just patently absurd. As if other countries do not have minorities who suffer or who are uniquely prosperous. Look beyond western academia's obsession with race and you'll find real answers to the problems within economics and culture.
As for the guy talking about the google techies and their teslas, idk man, stealing from someone that did nothing bad to you is deplorable and despicable no matter how you frame it. Just my two cents. Keep up the good work tho man you do it better than anyone else.
Holy shit that classic MDE Williamsburg shot😂
How about the rapid illegal immigration my guy
Sounds very familiar try area up by Cleveland Clinic.....opportunity corridor. Take a drive around 105th and carnegie. You'll see 15k houses next to 150k new homes and new apartments for the incoming workers for the hospital and IBM
Locals cant afford to live there. Hell i cant afford it and i make a darn good living
@@amerz2477 So who lives there?
@@alexel7814 doctors. Resident doctors...wealthy people visiting too
@@alexel7814out of towners with home equity or a loan from the bank of mom and dad.
5:32 shout out to the kid in the Crass shirt tho. True, that kind of activism is usually just preaching to the choir, and does little to nothing to solve a systemic problem.
Happy New Year erbody
COME TO BURLINGTON VERMONT
Zero sense of community. All about I’ll get mine- tech bros and criminals
This was great.
Nasal spray next time bro
Lil Sam Hyde shout out 💯
Honestly, I think gentrification is inevitable and can be good if done right. Bringing communities together rather than working to further divide them could help students and locals. Prioritizing students and those with money rather than those who need genuine help is a business decision by temple and I don’t think that the way there doing it helps. If the school put more effort into making local programs for local kids in the area and the city focused on making the area more livable it could help bring the two communities together. While mental health issues are prevalent, helping to alleviate local stress could also help people who feel lost or need attritional guidance and help
tell me you live in a 5 over 1 without telling me you live in a 5 over 1
@@ab8817where I’m from Hillcrest of San Diego was the scum of the neighborhoods very ghetto, prostitutes, gang banging. The gays moved in and gentrified it. Guess what it has the best food in town, best art galleries, bars, clubs, and even thrift stores. I’d rather have that then some a holes robbing me cause they can’t man up and get a real job.
@@PsychonautSaiyan why does it have to have the "best" of this and that? why cant it just be a normal neighborhood instead of a cosmopolitan adult playground? that's not sustainable.
The real root problem of gentrification is that the people in these hoods dont actually own the hood, so when the property values skyrocket and get sold to developers they dont see a dime, just an eviction notice.
Cities could have policies like, if you are evicted by a landlord selling their property for redevelopment, theres a special extra excise tax that goes to an affordable housing mandate in the area and guaranteed enrollment in the affordable units, so while you might lose your current apartment you are guaranteed subsidized housing in the new apartments going up.
Of course in practice cities dont give a shit about the poor and want them displaced to make the areas more desirable and jack up the valuations more. Its slum clearing in the 21st century.
@@ab8817 tell me you’re terminally online without telling me you’re terminally online
I grew up in SF. My family was all here before the tech boom and gentrification. I’d say it was an overall positive. The properties my family bought went up dramatically. The had their own businesses that they got to charge a lot more for with the higher income clientele. It got safer for a while but then we got extremely lenient on drug use in the streets. Most of the crazies you see aren’t even from here so can you really blame it on gentrification? Most of those people who got pushed out moved out to the east bay. Then you see crime getting worse out there. Not sure if this critique lines up
What about those lower income clientele your fam had beforehand? Who do you think is selling all of the drugs to those vagrants from all over? Who do you think got into office when they saw the wave of gentrification coming in an attempt to preserve their own tribes? Go deeper down with Alice and figure this out.
Problem I see is stopping gentrification once some people get their bag.
In the Richmond district for example there should be much more housing, apartments more that just two stories and a garage.
These properties are worth a ton now, yet many have changed since the 70s.
Small businesses struggle to survive with climbing rents, but less new or young people to come by.
Much of the population is getting older, and with that they participate less in the community, and spend less overall, as the value of their home is the most important thing.
Andrew why are you turning political? You used to just interview people and let the subjects speak for themselves no matter what political leaning they had. Now you're using your platform to take a side. Please stay unbiased, there's already too much bias in the news.
You covered San Fran and Philly... I think if any one city absolutely needs to be covered next? Baltimore.
Frisco needs real laws, gentrification isnt the main issue.
uhh... They left their Tesla unlocked? Not sure if that's even possible...
"Cultural capital actually matters" I can't help but draw parallels to the illegal immigration crisis
All of these buildings look the same, not just outside, but I swear every time I go inside them they have the same interior design and layout. It's not just a material and social problem, it's also a cultural and aesthetic problem, because these buildings really do erode the history, the sense of place, and the cohesion of the respective area. They're ugly and cheap-looking, and their minimalist, trendy designs make me feel sour. The whole process feels like it's happening way above our heads, and I feel so helpless when I see these places coming in. That being said, I really don't like that Mr. Callahan tried to make his opinion at the end about "gentrification being irresistible" seem like a statement of truth, and, while I mostly do agree with his general point about market forces indeed being almost like a force of nature under our current conditions, I do not agree with making the particular issue of gentrification out to be a force of nature...I don't know, it seems like a premature judgment. But I also have no idea what kind of research he did for this project either, so he could very well know a lot more than I do about the topic.
Hate to break it to you but the reality of it is that these building look the same because more likely than not it’s the same builders and it’s cheaper in the long run.
A lot of people have opinions on what businesses should and shouldn’t arrive at your city/town but they never seem to attend planning commission meetings and that right there is the stone cold truth.
@@FrikyD1ngo Yeah, you're right on with that part about the planning commission.
I like that style. Also like baltmore hoods and Ohio suburbs
Applauds for Temple
thanks yo
Yo was that Sam Hyde lol
Its important to note that big banks kenzo song goes incredibly hard
Developers look at the long term, generationally. If an area is unsafe now, that doesn't mean it'll be unsafe in the future. I think thats why developers develop in risky area, the hope that'll it'll be less risky in the future. Developers are shifting focus to community centered properties - now including libraries, parks, common areas, etc. Reaching out to the developers and telling them community wants - parks, basketball courts, libraries, bars, etc. - might help gentrified communities get things govt isn't providing.
Tell me you aren’t a 2020 215 transplant from Brooklyn after transplanting to Brooklyn in 2018, without telling me 🤮
But again- you're kinda missing the point- developers buy cheap, kick out locals, don't care about the city or culture and focus on my white, upper middle class yuppies want without thought to the displacement of locals or actual programs and rehabilitation to those who actually need it. There isn't money in solving poverty or the drug epidemic
Sounds like something a developer would say...
3:15 don't act like u didn't know thats sammy, andrew.
🙏so blessed to have citizens looking to help by teaching others a lesson ❤
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mde never dies
Guys this shit isn't going to get any better. It's all downhill from here. Enjoy the videos.
Only tax payer complaints matter.
Damn I’m so glad I left the US.
Where'd you move to? I'm pretty unhappy here myself, born and raised here, but it just doesn't seem to be what it once was. Maybe I'd be unhappy anywhere I am, but it's worth a shot.
literally anywhere else
Literally the plot of the wire playing out
1:17 that’s bs. This dude is a fenty addict with a kid. Crime isn’t culture.