Witness the Rapid Transformation in Chicago’s 5 Most Gentrified Neighborhoods
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 เม.ย. 2023
- In this video, we explore the most gentrified neighborhoods in Chicago. Some of these before and after photos via Google street view are astonishing.
Gentrification occurs when there is a substantial gap between the current value of a place, and its potential value. More capital is invested into the
neighborhood and the type of people who live there change over time.
A positive aspect of gentrification is that neighborhoods become much more dense with improved infrastructure like bike lanes and public parks. Who doesn’t love a walkable place?
A negative aspect of gentrification is the potential displacement of current residents due to rising property taxes.
The key reasons why these neighborhoods were so heavily gentrified were due to
located close to downtown Chicago or to major transportation hubs, such as train stations or airports
Industrial Conversion to residential or mixed use spaces
Cultural Amenities like galleries, museums, and theaters
Are you for or against gentrification?
5 Most gentrified neighborhoods in Chicago
Logan Square
Wicker Park
West Loop
Pilsen
South Loop
Music credit
Music: Circuit
Musician: Jeff Kaale
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Gentrification is a good thing, especially for Chicago and other cities that are losing population.
I mean, I don't even expect these to be for strait up poor, but when a condo starts at $300,000 and rent starts at $3000 a month, that prices out a HUGE section of the population. Basically, these neighborhoods are ONLY for very rich already or people with very posh 6 figure jobs and everyone else is not welcome.
--- IT'S BEEN CRITICISED BECAUSE ELIMINATING AFFORDABLE HOUSING . . . was the point of gentrification, improvements that "could not be made" until the down-scale urban natives "moved out" for the suburban interlopers to move in and make it up-scale. Thanks for the slip of the tongue.
Nicely done. You hit the neighborhoods that I thought you would. Can't wait till Brooklyn since I lived there back in the 90s and still have friends there.
What a take on gentrification for a channel named Cities for People. Don't take us wrong, we haven't seen all your videos and don't know what you exactly stand for but this was striking line for a first video from this channel. Bit disappointing, but keep up your hard work. Success.
Gentrification is never a good thing. It was interesting seeing the changes, but it’s sad knowing that families and communities were kicked out of there homes for people who are not even from Chicago (mostly white people).
Great video. Uptown is another neighborhood that's undergone a lot of change over the past 20 years. Uptown has long been a diverse, mixed-income alternative to the homogeneity of Lincoln Park/Lakeview, but in recent years the neighborhood has been rapidly gentrifying as wealth creeps up the lakefront. The neighborhood is now majority white, which is concerning. We just elected Angela Clay as alderwoman though, and she ran on a platform of promoting diversity and affordable housing in the community. Hopefully as the neighborhood continues developing, more affordable housing will be built as well.
rogers park is another neighborhood that has seen lots of gentrification over the years crazy how much it's changed.
Great video. But it fails to mention some of the major gentrification that took place on the North Side several decades ago. The west side of Old Town is now a very nice area to live in, but was once quite dangerous due to nearby Cabrini-Green. And before the 1960's, Lincoln Park was a run-down Puerto Rican neighborhood, and it gradually gentrified into the posh neighborhood it is today.
I lived in Logan Square 97-05 was gentrifying in late 90s but still had a great deal of Puerto Rican, Mexican and Polish grounding
I am all for redevelopment, but the city should force these builders to provide low income housing in the mix, 25-30 percent.
I love your video format. Really cool to see these changes.
I really enjoyed seeing the before and after pictures! It really showed the change
Never been in Chicago. It is definitely on my bucket list. Meanwhile I enjoy it through your videos. You just got a new subscriber!!!!
Gentrification is a word used to try to villainize people fixing up and improving areas that the people who live there have let go to the point that properties are being condemned and not safe for habitation. Had the people that lived in these neighborhoods kept their properties up and maintained even on a minimal basis. Their property people wouldn’t be able to come in and buy it for pennies on the dollar and then build something that’s more valuable and more expensive. If you were one of the people who did keep your property up when this starts happening, your property values go through the roof. my mother and father-in-law live in the neighborhood that went through this process and their property values tripled, and interest to years. There’s no problem at all with people coming in and buying these run down
This was eye opening. This explains what I have been witnessing in San Diego, I just did not have the term for it.
Try the Lincolnpark Clybourn area once the scences of Heavy Industry an aging industrial strip of steel mills scrap yards warehouses that ran along the eastern edge of the Chicago River a couple blocks from then Cabrini green.
Less crime would be terrible
😃 " AMAZING!.... I also totally agree with your neutral position on Gentrification. A lot of residents fail to grasp that market-driven forces have always shaped neighborhoods. Some just see dramatic or frequent demographic changes than others depending upon market-driven interests. ' In a perfect world ' that wouldn't be the case but, like it or not, Reality shows Us otherwise. "
Nothing on the south side just the west loop , anything south ?