Comments on: Quote of the day: Debunking displacement

By: IrishPirate

IrishPirate — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 00:57:14 +0000

Levois,

my guess is that the “grannyfication” of Lincoln Park is caused by folks who moved in 3 decades or more ago aging in place.

The number of seniors in Lincoln Park is relatively small, but it does seem to be growing. That is my anecdotal experience anyway. Perhaps the new census data next year will say something different.

In the Fall I was walking down a side street in LP near Fullerton and I was struck by the number of older folks sitting on front porches or on benches in their front yards. The actual number may have only been 3 or 4 people, but it still stuck in my mind.

It just didn’t fit the stereotype of LP that many folks have.

By: Sheridan B

Sheridan B — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:14:49 +0000

I think the original article was interesting, as it examined ‘gentrification’ from a different perspective (lite as it was). It’s usually not the worst neighborhoods that get gentrified, but those that have street live and may already be in flux.

Capital Hill in Seattle was seen as “degentrifying” – I think (contrary to what NYers, such as the posters or the folks at http://www.diehipsterdie.com think), this is what is happening in Brooklyn when ‘hipsters’ move in and share apartments, rather than de facto or definition/doctrinaire gentrification. There is a long history of neighborhood change in North America (world wide, of course, but out of scope here) which people seem to forget (look at Prairie Avenue, Old Town, etc)

Baron, loved the Onion Article, terrible photoshop work though – I thought I saw Prince Michael of Kent in Brooklyn (though I could see his son, Freddie ’sniffles’ Windsor there)!

By: Levois

Levois — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 18:09:42 +0000

Older people are starting to move into those communities or are they just staying put if they bought in years ago.

By: Joe Zekas

Joe Zekas — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 02:08:46 +0000

Let’s not overlook what’s happening in parts of Lincoln Park and all up and down the North Shore – grannyfication. The word is self-explanatory.

By: baronvonellis

baronvonellis — Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:43:34 +0000

The next threat to gentrified neighborhoods is Aristocratization. The diamond-based wealth of the aristocracy makes it impossible
for the merely well off to hold onto their million dollar houses.

http://www.theonion.com/content/news/report_nations_gentrified