Brian Azzarello Quotes

I think it's good if areas get upgraded and gentrified, as long as the people who always lived there can stay. But they get pushed out to some place.

I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we start telling the young, hard-working, quote-unquote 'smart' kids that they need to measure success by how far they get away from our communities.

Gentrification is a form of immigration, though almost nobody calls it that.

Gentrification and housing shortages are complex issues.

I've been sort of gentrification-obsessed. Right before I left Oakland in 2012, I was feeling it. Now I go back sporadically, and the change is drastic.

Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

There's a lot to be said for not displacing people.

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

Working on the film really made me confront my opinions about change and gentrification.

Gentrification is what brings in all the money to the cities, but it also pushes some people out.

Modern elites live in bubbles of liberal affluence like Ann Arbor, Brookline, the Upper West Side, Palo Alto, or Chevy Chase. These places used to have impoverished neighborhoods nearby, but the poor people got chased out by young singles living in group homes, hipsters, and urban homesteading gay couples.

The history of black people in Manhattan is a story of people getting pushed farther uptown as land acquires new uses and increases in value.

I have lived in this city my whole life and have seen the way gentrification has changed it. I'm not necessarily against transplants, as 75 percent of my good friends, roommate, and boyfriend are not native New Yorkers.

There's a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest.

I had never heard this term before - gente-fication - which is also happening in Portland, Houston; it's happening in a lot of cities. It's upwardly mobile Latinx who want to come back to their neighborhoods where they grew up - or it's Latinx moving to L.A. and looking for a Latinx neighborhood to live or open a business.

We should concentrate our work not only to a separated housing problem but housing involved in our daily work and all the other functions of the city.

It is sad that the more 'successful' a neighborhood becomes, the more it gradually takes on a recognizable, common look, as the same banks, drugstore chains and national brands move in.

I'd lived in Portland on and off for a decade before I'd even heard of Vanport. It was this town of 20,000 people that washed away from north Portland.

Sometimes, I feel that Manhattan in particular has gotten really tame and gentrified or something.

People who gentrify are usually new transplants to a city, changing it to suit their particular cultural needs and whims.

I'm in East L.A., like Mount Washington, Highland Park. There's a little strip that they're gentrifying, trying to make a hip spot, but you go there, and it's just kind of barren. Nobody hangs out anywhere in L.A. There's no loitering in L.A., so I don't know what to do with myself.

We finally cleaned up public housing in New Orleans. We couldn’t do it, but God did.

I know we haven't cleaned up all the slums, but I didn't create the slums, did I?

Look what we have built ... low-income projects that became worse centers of delinquency, vandalism and general social hopelessness than the slums they were supposed to replace.

If a neighborhood is to retain stability, it is necessary that properties should continue to be occupied by the same social and racial classes.