1 Gentrification just means they can't keep them concentrated in an area where they serve as useful pawns in electing extreme leftists to political office. Gentrification means more moderates and conservatives to dilute the "safe" district. Gentrification means the "worthy poor" get exposed to people who have managed to pull themselves up by their own efforts, and to such "dangerous" ideas as self-reliance, independence, and hard work as a virtue.

2 Gentrification means that the houses of poor but hard-working people who vote Republican are bulldozed to build housing developments for rich people who vote Democrat.

3 Sounds like descrimination of the middle class to me. Oh yeah, I forgot, they don't count.

4 It's kind of ironic to me that the same people who argued fervently for an end to segregation are opposed to gentrification. Of course what they wanted was for the poor and minorities to move into wealthy white neighborhoods, not for white up-and-comers to horn in on the ghetto. It makes 'em look bad to have it proven that it doesn't take a government program to turn a neighborhood around. Correct me if I'm wrong, but I always thought gentrification involved people with the means to do so remodeling and updating older houses, renovating and repurposing old commercial properties (lofts, etc.), not typically bulldozing them for McMansions? Besides, rich people who vote Democrat, *never* live in the midst of the "little people".

5 Gentrification means that the people who don't take care of their neighborhoods, who don't amount to much of anything in life, get the boot. People that actually care move in. In Southie (Boston), the locals get all upset when yuppies move in. I can't understand why you wouldn't want someone to move in who will increase your property value, not hold you up, and not cause trouble.

6 Yeah--to me, gentrification means people start maintaining the properties. Gay men are often in the vanguard on this. The McMansion thing--yuck. That phenomenon is a result of the fact that there are huge numbers of people out there with a great deal of money, but no sense. Or taste.