In Middle America, ‘Gentrification’ Is A Useless Word
Posted on AllSides December 14th, 2019
From The Right
As this decade draws to a close, the story of urban America is increasingly about the great disconnect between a small number of large cities that are thriving, and a much larger number of cities of all sizes that are continuing to fall behind.
What’s true for a handful of large cities is increasingly untrue for the majority of cities in the vast middle of the country. Nowhere is the great disconnect more apparent than in the debate about gentrification.
Gentrification is a hot topic of conversation in coastal cities,...