Eps 1: Genderification in young adults
— Genderification in young adults
One urban planning professor has defined this as a process that occurs in discrete stages.
There are also significant blocks of young people at the ends of metro lines, where they can access more affordable housing served by transit.
In Montreal, young people are much more dispersed, albeit still mostly along transit lines (in green).
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Madison Walker
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Gentrification describes the process in which affluent, academically educated people begin to move into poor working-class communities that were originally often occupied by communities of color. Many low-income residents can't afford homes, and decades of racist mortgage practices have denied many of their neighbors access to affordable housing. People and businesses moving to gentrifying neighborhoods might have had to pay much more for their new homes than the homes of people who have lived there for a long time.
The process of renewal and reconstruction is often accompanied by deteriorating areas, which often displace former, mostly poorer, inhabitants. Rising housing costs, changing communities and cultures, and job losses can make it difficult for long-term residents to adapt and cause problems for the local economy and public health.
Gentrification occurs when wealthy people buy and rent properties, driving up their value and rents. This is the result of moving money to ruined urban areas and poor pre-gentrification residents who cannot afford higher rents and property taxes. Gentrification has gained attention in recent years as sociologists have tried to explain the link between income inequality and the rise in housing and health care costs for young adults.
In addition, gentrification of neighborhoods is hampered by a lack of affordable housing, and over time, as housing costs rise, neighborhoods experience a net loss of low-income residents and become less affordable. This is not because there is no displacement in gentrified neighborhoods, but because lower-income people generally move more frequently.
This transition in the economic status of neighborhoods occurs when affluent, often young, white residents move away and are replaced by higher-income, white gentrifiers. This is increasingly the case in the so-called "back-to-the-city" movement. Perhaps the root cause of this movement is gentrification, which is typically characterized by affluent (and often younger) whites. Residents moving to neighborhoods with higher housing costs and lower levels of affordable housing, such as New York City and Chicago.
Whether this qualifies as gentrification has been hotly debated in academic literature, but it is certainly not the only cause of this trend.
Here gentrification is defined as a large-scale process of the housing market, in which wealthier residents move to less affluent areas, leading to a decline in the quality of life for those living in those areas and an increase in poverty for those living in less affluent areas. This has increased over time as the cultural perception of the desirability of urban life has changed.
Millennials' racial perceptions have shifted from previous generations, with minority neighborhoods now considered cool and edgy. While gentrification implies an economic transition, as established residents are replaced by a more affluent class, many researchers have found that the quality of life of minority residents has declined and poverty has increased in less affluent neighborhoods. This does not necessarily mean that neighborhoods remain welcoming and affordable to established residents, but several researchers have found that neighborhoods that move to prosperity generate new social tensions that affect the interactions that can often lead to micro-level segregation.
The city's recovery has contributed to high property prices, which have made it difficult for many low-income residents who currently live in inner-city neighborhoods to stay in their homes. Some cities have tried to slow the transition, and their intentions are laudable, but college-educated workers are moving to their new homes in dense, walkable neighborhoods, attracted by amenities such as shopping, restaurants, bars, parks, and other places where they can socialize with friends.
However, this change is a natural part of economic growth, and too much interference will stifle that growth and make things worse.
Young people in the US and Canada in their twenties and thirties experience delayed childbirth and a growing enthusiasm for marriage and family planning.
For these reasons, renting in the city center, where a growing stock of affordable housing and affordable rental housing is available, is becoming increasingly attractive. Those who move to the inner cities in their 20s and 30s will stay there for the rest of their lives and raise their children. Some will pack up and move to less dense places, threatening to become cities forever - young zones that serve as resting places for the ephemeral.