The answer to new amenities driving gentrification just cannot be "well then keep working-class neighborhoods shitty and deprived of nice things."
https://twitter.com/2AvSagas/status/1380215560995278857
Working-class people deserve nice things too. The fact that public provision of baseline shit like parks, transit, and safe streets is so poor that middle-class people scramble to live in places with those amenities is a horrific indictment of government.
Among other things, for a belief seemingly adopted by people aligning themselves with the left, it's a shockingly conservative view of the world. There's enough for all of us if we demand it.
I also want to pull this out of a reply thread. When community meetings get held, the people who show up are often not representative of the people in the neighborhood.
https://twitter.com/rev_avocado/status/1380220558068027392
This is about the Church Ave bus lane, BTW. A street which links up with multiple subway lines and crosses central Brooklyn, the majority of which's commuters use slow, overcrowded buses. But car owners (a tiny fraction of commuters) nearly nuked it.
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