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there's an aspect of gentrification that involves buying convenience stores and purposely shutting them down, as they tend to tepresent the last remaining walkable option for easy food, cheap alcohol and tobacco to the lower/fixed income area residents who predate the new money.
i saw it happen in two places where i used to live. the gentrification groups ("non-profit" advocacy orgs launched by real estate investors to "revitalize" old red-lined neighborhoods) would openly brag about shutting these places down as part of a campaign to deter a "criminal element".
then the only places for food, booze, tobacco in the neighborhood became the boutique, upscale places they owned.
the liberals fell all over themselves praising it.
Yup my local gas station is like this, it's in walking distance and owned by Indian immigrants.
Yimbyism is hell
Gentrification isn't incompatible with walkable cities. Gentrification is, plainly, when low-income residents are pushed out of an area due to higher-income groups moving in and followingly exerting their surplus of resources to harass (knowingly or not) the low-income people + building managers harassing low-income groups out of their homes so they can upscale them to some yuppie.
Walkability often arrives with gentrification because a walkable neighbourhood is a neighborhood with higher property values.
Happening for over a decade where I live. Now rents going up, the streets are lined with teslas and all the cheap little flats are being replaced with apartment blocks that nobody who lives here can afford.
I fucking hate it. Happening here too. The city slaps down some thousand buildings, rich assholes move in and start suing every concert venue and festival that has been there for decades. Demolishes historic buildings and every semblance of local culture. But they gotta, because there's a housing shortage - which somehow will be solved by condos that cost millions, despite the fact the people in need of houses are students. Suggest using any other means than just building shit, like maybe appropriating or regulating? No that's too far, even though the language about the housing crisis is apocalyptic.
It's become a trend in my city to buy a townhouse and sell each floor as its own condo. People spending 500-700k to live in a basement. And they charge a condo fee even though you're still on the hook for everything.