![]() ![]() Just look at Cicero, Maywood, Berwyn, etc. Just as these areas were gradually co-opted by immigrants or African Americans, the suburbs that came of white flight will follow. If you are middle class and of European ancestry, everything you once loved becomes slums. ![]() Which one do you want? You can't have both, so you might as well come to terms with gentrification.Įverything you once loved will one day become condos.ĭepends on your perspective. Or, you can gut rehab, fix leaning floors, put in new copper plumbing and 1.5" water service (which costs $17,000) because the city forces you to do so, repair the falling brickwork, etc etc etc and actually have a chance to KEEP the historic Chicago architecture that's there. You can tear it all down and build drab, cinder-block one story boxes with plastic plumbing, all while preserving the existing community. I'm fine with affordable housing, but have you guys walked through some of Pilsen's buildings? They look pretty on the outside but are in pretty damn rough shape on the interior. How else is anybody going to realize the return on the capital investment of fixing it up and bringing it back up to Chicago's ridiculous building code requirements? Change is the norm.īesides, at least Chicago has ample amounts of available affordable housing supply for people who end up moving out of Pilsen.īut what's the practical solution? If you love Pilsen's historic building stock, gentrification is the only way to see it preserved. I recognize that this is a concern many people have, but I guess it doesn't bother me as much because it has been happening in cities throughout human history. I'd much rather have some other parts of town gentrify long before Pilsen. ![]() If the prices there rise, it can become less of a target usually, but if prices stay the same or even go down for property, then they aren't doing themselves any favors. if Pilsen doesn't want gentrifiers, then they need to make sure their community is advancing with how they want it, otherwise it becomes an easy target for gentrification. On the other hand, I'm for the advancement of the community. Pilsen is a good area - so I'm torn because gentrification means it will lose its character which is NOT what I want and many others don't want. ![]()
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