Thread by @POC4INDY

A controversial housing development has been given the green light🚦by Cardiff Council despite huge widespread opposition, two committee members failing to show up...yet the development on the site of Track 2000 will be going ahead 1/

https://twitter.com/pentregardensCf/status/1298714336534261762

Grangetown is the most multiracial part of Wales. Gentrification has made Grangetown and especially south and north Grangetown an attractive area as rent prices rise in #Cardiff, often pushing out Grangetownians who can't afford to live there any more 2/

We need a real radical grassroots campaign against gentrification to secure the longterm health of Cardiff, and to make sure that gentrification doesn't act as a form of colonisation [along with the attitude to esp young BAME people] from/by middle classes 3/

We need a radical+pugnacious gentrification collective led by the working classes, queer people and people of colour in Cardiff who are directly impacted day to day because of gentrification. We need those most effected at the front lines to lead discussion and conversation 4/

A successful initiative/campaign/ movement cannot be built against gentrification by those who disproportionately benefit from gentrification without replicating the power dynamics between people in Cardiff and those who are direct beneficiaries or complicit in gentrification 5/

Any campaign devoid of working class support is doomed before it failed: the Welsh public sphere can tell us this much. We're living in generation rent. Those dynamics, on the ground, between gentrifier and communities subject to gentrification is extraordinarily tense 6/

We want to see those gaps closed: between rich and poor, b/w those who have and do not have, b/w the violence that enables gentrification and the communities that have to live with it. This isn't fair.

#RegenerationIsGentrification #Radical #Wales #RentControl