eucalyptushoney007 t1_jdmbbyl wrote on March 25, 2023 at 1:37 PM

I love the smell of gentrification and top shelf coffee in the morning

bigjoe13 t1_jdmjzeh wrote on March 25, 2023 at 2:46 PM

S.Klein was vacant for 37 years. Hanhes vacant for 30. Come on fam, people Keep talking about gentrification and not the 40+ years of blight after the riots. Lack of business means lack of jobs means lack of family to support. Same shit they talked about in 1986 is on the table today. SMH.

Newarkguy1836 t1_jdr6pek wrote on March 26, 2023 at 3:32 PM

The people crying about justification are the same people who laughed and mocked the idea of people building in Newark because "it was such a dump". When the Bayonne boxes first came up they laughed and said "they'd get burnt down soon by the locals, who in their right mind would build in Newark?"

The same people who said I want to get out of Newark are now crying about getting pushed out of Newark. I called these people "the ghetto Lobby". A group of confused miserable citizens that are spiteful and jealous of everyone else who is better off.

eucalyptushoney007 t1_jdmn0d8 wrote on March 25, 2023 at 3:08 PM

I think some gentrification is good I’m not mad honestly but it still is what it is..and I never hear about units available based on income.

Units starting at 2.5k means everything market rate so just giving out of state people vs local chance

recnilcram OP t1_jdn5z0p wrote on March 25, 2023 at 5:23 PM

Yeah we're talking about the commuter-oriented downtown with various vacant buildings. Of course it affects the market, but there is no direct displacement going on, and the city needs the population and property taxes to support the city as a whole.

Marv95 t1_jdpdhs1 wrote on March 26, 2023 at 3:22 AM

Gentrification means people are being displaced. Who is being displaced? Nobody lives downtown (unless you can afford to).

Newarkguy1836 t1_jdr7ed8 wrote on March 26, 2023 at 3:37 PM

Newark does not have the housing stock that attracts people to bump out current residence. Newark is a city of wooden tenements just like Boston. It is not a city like New York and Philly where you have blocks and miles of uniform brick and Brownstone Rowhouses. The development in Newark is taking place where vacant and parking lots currently sit. Once you get 100% buildout in downtown, and that won't happen for years, then you'll see gentrification into the lower income surrounding neighborhoods. That's at least 20 years away.