Forced displacement occurs to residents when they are priced out by rent hikes and higher property taxes, or when their area is forcibly redeveloped without adequate compensation.Īnd so we need to get to the heart of what causes these resident concerns. Gentrification occurs to a place, not to residents it is when an area or region undergoes a demographic change, such as from poorer to richer. People equate 'gentrification' with 'forced displacement', however they have completely different meanings. The trouble is, this gentrification usually does not happen in a manner that they think. While light rail is great and will improve the livelihood of residents, local residents still oppose it on grounds of 'gentrification'. I now live in New York City and heard of two different projects, one that would connect the west side of Brooklyn and Queens together called the Brooklyn Queens Connector and another further east called the Interborough Express.
Now that we have torn up a lot of our trams and streetcars, I am starting to ponder how can we go about and add trams and streetcars?
