[geocon]

Gentrification is a boogeyman- all gentrification means is that land has become more desirable to live on (that's why its value increases). That's good. We want to improve quality of life. If you follow the logic of gentrification to its end, we should be destroying improvements in vulnerable locations in order to keep them affordable. It is the rationality of the slumlord.

[imtringued]

People think gentrification is "evil" but they don't seem to think why people leave their old communities to begin with. By stopping gentrification you are unknowingly abandoning far more people by forcing them to stay in a bad area.

Gentrification is primarily a problem with the current system. I can easily imagine an economic system that decentralizes economic activity akin to Distributism which will make it easier to rebuild and improve run down communities without having to move somewhere else.