{"id":135416,"date":"2017-11-26T23:47:28","date_gmt":"2017-11-27T06:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=135416"},"modified":"2017-11-27T06:49:06","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T13:49:06","slug":"tone-deafness-business-neighborhoods","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/tone-deafness-business-neighborhoods.html","title":{"rendered":"The tone-deafness of business in neighborhoods"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Is &#8220;gentrification&#8221; a bad thing?<\/p>\n<p>Well, it&#8217;s a <em>good<\/em> thing, to the extent that it means attracting commerce to an area and increasing spending and investment there.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s a <em>bad<\/em> thing, to the extent that it represents pushing people out of neighborhoods, and changing the nature of those neighborhoods into what attracts the most commerce.<\/p>\n<p>Regardless, it&#8217;s not something you want to advertise without a <i>ton<\/i> of context and nuance and neighborhood buy-in.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"sm2wp\"><p><a style=\"display: inline;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/11\/25\/a-coffee-shop-celebrated-gentrification-and-is-now-profusely-apologizing\/?utm_term=.7ef310c22d06\"><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"max-width: 650px;\" src=\"https:\/\/lh3.googleusercontent.com\/proxy\/GRAit9GkK6GNGN_g60IuNE4aCZmHv9k9B1b_bjMpmmNmg0tEP9sg1SdQoWRVBc7BahlUeYzeYneA1tA2uLIlKMpmlWtd759nLlMYZx-nmPwEUE6PXwLO7isv9w3iwlzL2O2M74S6KWJrcvyY98ZS0pYJe5HNYHdyfv9J9qcVYy-Xabgg9P2VgM68q7HDo4Fz4VJ4a6axIqpy7mHj0E_Jupv8oAY-kAbdkN4XmH5ftHn5fh8SoegP1w=w506-h910\" border=\"0\" \/><br \/>\n<\/a><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-size: large;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/post-nation\/wp\/2017\/11\/25\/a-coffee-shop-celebrated-gentrification-and-is-now-profusely-apologizing\/?utm_term=.7ef310c22d06\">Avi Selk<\/a><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/plus.google.com\/+DaveHill47\/posts\/iiMrzG39saW\">View on Google+<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Is &#8220;gentrification&#8221; a bad thing? Well, it&#8217;s a good thing, to the extent that it means attracting commerce to an area and increasing spending and investment there. It&#8217;s a bad thing, to the extent that it represents pushing people out of neighborhoods, and changing the nature of those neighborhoods into what attracts the most commerce. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/11\/26\/tone-deafness-business-neighborhoods.html\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The tone-deafness of business in neighborhoods&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":135435,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,80,528,740,24],"tags":[1329],"class_list":["post-135416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-plusposts","category-media-commercial","category-economic-justice","category-race-racism","category-writing-and-language","tag-gentrification"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/unnamed-36.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":38144,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/07\/05\/the-shifts-of-poverty-in-us-cities.html","url_meta":{"origin":135416,"position":0},"title":"The shifts of poverty in US cities","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 5-Jul-13 11:29am","format":false,"excerpt":"An interesting set of comparative maps (if you scroll down to the bottom for the interactive one) showing how poverty demographics have changed in US cities between 1980 and 2000.It's interesting how it's spread (as suburbs have spread), integrated (in some cases), and shifted neighborhoods. 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