Well, if it ain’t po’ folk gonna live in those empty houses, who is it then?

I’ve seen it happen before. Where I grew up, Plainfield NJ, was all gorgeous colonial homes from the turn of the century. I would be afraid to walk around my old neighborhood during the daylight now. Many of the homes are even burned out/gutted and its not even economical to tear them down, let alone replace them.

I wish I could find the article, the point was that the ghetto city dwellings would gentrify to the point that it was unaffordable for typical ghetto-dwellers, whom would then flee to the suburbs.