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"In reality, gentrification is short term bad, long term good."

I would say the opposite. Most of the good effects of gentrification happens in the beginning. Then time becomes a more important factor than gentrification itself. If you can't slow gentrification at that point the bad effects really starts kicking in and you're replacing rather than transforming.

All successful examples of gentrification I've seen is when you gentrify up to a point where regulation gets in the way and then because of that another area starts getting more popular, which then gentrifies up to a point etc...



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