Gentrification of US cities (VIDEO)

Urban gentrification often involves population migration as poor residents of a neighborhood are displaced. In a community undergoing gentrification, the average income increases and average family size decreases. This generally results in the displacement of the poorer, pre-gentrification residents, who are unable to pay increased rents, and property taxes, or afford real estate.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentrification



 Many Minorities and lower class families are being forced out of their neighborhoods across the country because they are priced out of their house and neighborhoods.

New York has one of the biggest problems with this. This also happens after natural disasters like New Orleans after Katrina and recently in NY and New Jersey after Sandy.

Much of the debate about gentrification and displacement involves struggles over definition. Although it is often equated with neighborhood improvement, in reality gentrification is a process of class transformation: it is the remaking of working-class space to serve the needs of middle- and upper-class people.

Much of the debate about gentrification and displacement involves struggles over definition. Although it is often equated with neighborhood improvement, in reality gentrification is a process of class transformation: it is the remaking of working-class space to serve the needs of middle- and upper-class people.

Sometimes this does not displace people from their homes, but from their jobs (as when factories are converted to luxury housing); at other times upscale housing is developed on vacant land. In any case, when an established working-class residential area becomes attractive to investors, developers and middle-class households, the risk of displacement can become quite serious.

In this edition of the show we will travel to Newburgh, which is 60 miles away from New York City to show one of the most impoverished cities in the United States. Labeled as the murder capital of New York because of police violence and gangs, it is a city of only 30,000 but receives $150million dollars a year for reconstruction, instead the government and local officials take the money and do not spend it on the people.