Would you be willing to move into an area of high crime in order to get a good housing bargain? How do you think the current residents of an area being gentrified can be protected from rising rents and allowed to continue to live in the area? Should they be?

Chapter 20 Discussion: Gentrification

Gentrification, the movement of middle-class people into rundown areas of a city. As a consequence of gentrification, the poor are often displaced from their neighborhoods.

Would you be willing to move into an area of high crime in order to get a good housing bargain? How do you think the current residents of an area being gentrified can be protected from rising rents and allowed to continue to live in the area? Should they be?