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    Default Influx of Younger, Wealthier Residents Transforms U.S. Cities

    What's the board think of this? Depending on who you are some might call this gentrification and again depending on who you are gentrification is a bad thing. In the past inner-cities were occupied largely by poor blacks and more recently poor Hispanics. Now these poorer blacks and Hispanics are being pushed further out into the suburbs and wealthier whites and Asians move into the cities. Is this ok?




    Influx of Younger, Wealthier Residents Transforms U.S. Cities

    Educated, relatively high-earning workers are flocking to urban neighborhoods at a rate not seen since at least the 1970s



    CLEVELAND—Joe Baur grew up in a leafy suburb a half-hour outside central Cleveland. But when it came time to settle down with his wife, the couple chose Ohio City, a neighborhood here that until recently was pockmarked by abandoned businesses and decaying homes.

    Mr. Baur, a 29-year-old travel writer, and Melanie, a 28-year-old international-relations worker, love that their neighborhood is brimming with new restaurants and bars. The couple pays just over $1,000 a month for a one-bedroom loft—an amount that easily could cover monthly mortgage payments for a three-bedroom house in the suburbs. But both say they have no interest.

    The Baurs are part of a wave of young, educated, relatively high-earning workers flocking to many American cities at a rate not seen since the U.S. Census Bureau began tracking such data in the 1970s. The shift began last decade and accelerated during the housing bust.

    The movement is injecting new life into tired urban cores, prompting renovation of older residential and commercial buildings while spurring new real estate developments as well as upgrades to transit systems, parks and cultural institutions.

    A range of factors is driving the urban influx, economists say, from job growth and declining crime in cities to young professionals waiting longer to have children—or deciding not to have them at all. Tighter mortgage lending and concern about homeownership risks also weigh on young people, turning many into long-term renters.

    The trend is boosting urban housing values. City rents nationwide are now nearly $1,730 a month on average, compared with just under $1,250 for their suburban counterparts, according to CoStar Group Inc. The average urban home is worth 2% more than the average suburban home, according to real-estate information company Zillow. In 2010, suburban homes were worth 4% more.

    For landlords and developers, rising rents and home values are a boon. But the costs can push out lower-wage employees as well as teachers, police and other middle-income public servants, making it harder for employers to attract such labor.

    As many of the displaced move to suburbs, new strains are emerging there, on schools, transportation and services for the needy.

    “The housing affordability issues are no longer limited to the high-cost coastal cities” such as New York and San Francisco, said Stockton Williams, executive director of the Urban Land Institute’s Terwilliger Center for Housing.

    In fact, the growth in urban wealth was apparent in all 26 cities included in a recent study of U.S. Census data by Jed Kolko, a senior fellow at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley. Mr. Kolko’s analysis begins in 2000, a period that includes the entire housing boom, bust and recovery.

    The study found that among the top 30% of all U.S. households by income—those earning about $85,000 a year and up—400,000 more lived in urban neighborhoods in 2014 than did at the peak of the housing boom in 2006.

    Even in Cleveland, which has been hit by the foreclosure crisis and a shrinking population, the share of young, educated residents in downtown neighborhoods rose by half, to 12% in 2014 from 8% in 2000, according to Mr. Kolko’s research. This group includes residents 25 to 44 years old who have a college degree.

    In the Ohio City neighborhood, the median income skyrocketed to $93,000 from $23,000 since 2006, according to Ohio City Inc., a local nonprofit development group. Median home values shot up 800% since 2000 to $270,000, according to Ohio City Inc. Median rental prices in downtown Cleveland as a whole jumped 47% from late 2010 to late 2015, according to the Center for Population Dynamics at Cleveland State University.

    Tom McNair, executive director of Ohio City Inc., said that five years ago his group was focused on tackling a 40% vacancy rate for office and retail space on the main commercial strip. Today, with a vacancy rate below 2% those spaces are teeming with bars, restaurants and craft breweries. An ice cream factory occupies a former nightclub space where gun shots once rang out.

    “Everybody wants to open a business, buy a property, build housing,” said Sam McNulty, a local entrepreneur.

    Anne Hartnett started a successful spin studio in the neighborhood. But she was priced out of buying a larger home for her family and had to move to a nearby suburb to get more space.

    “It was kind of an ironic situation that a neighborhood we had really put a lot of energy into revitalizing we ended up not being able to afford,” she said.

    Now Mr. McNair is trying to figure out how to hold onto middle-class families. His group is working with Cleveland on rezoning to encourage the creation of 500 new units of housing, with a goal of having 10% of that be affordable. Already, 800 units are under development—among the biggest bursts of activity the neighborhood has seen since the 1920s, local officials say.

    Those who have moved to revived city neighborhoods say they love the new amenities. And for some there is another plus: no need for a car.

    Joe and Melanie Baur, in Ohio City, say they bike, take public transit and walk, including jaunts with their dog, Moses Cleaveland, named after the city’s founder, who spelled his surname with an extra “a.”

    The car “was such an albatross,” Mr. Baur said. “I hated it.”



    http://www.wsj.com/articles/influx-o...ies-1465492762

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    it's like an episode of shameless ROFL
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    Cities like the revenue and are discovering it's a great way to eliminate the untouchables. Maybe the po kids should have been studying hard instead of playing gangsta. Now ghey get to be cuntry gangstas
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    Working single girls flock to the cities in search for rich dudes. How you gonna keep em down on the farm?

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    In London, areas like East London are increasingly losing white working classes to the satellite new towns and being replaced by migrants from the Middle East and Africa.

    http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...re-I-live.html

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    Quote Originally Posted by AssHatZombie View Post
    Working single girls flock to the cities in search for rich dudes. How you gonna keep em down on the farm?
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    It's been going on here in Cowtown for a long time. I remember when the German Village was gentrified. People started buying all these old brick houses and paying outrageous prices for them and the poor soon had to relocate to other neighborhoods. Same thing happened in the Short North and Victorian Village area when the old Ohio Penitentiary was demolished and the arena area built.

    We're currently going through a new housing boom. Last 6 months housing prices have gone up 30% in the burbs and people are paying insane prices for POS houses. To complicate matters housing prices are seriously over their assessed values making it very difficult to get a loan unless you can put down a very large down payment to bridge the gap between the houses selling price and its assessed value. It's insane.
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