Positive Side Effects!

Harlem is not everything evil

 

Before gentrifying Harlem

Harlem being gentrified

Harlem being gentrified

It is important to mention that in some way wealthy gentry moving in are the responsible for low income residents losing their jobs or mass displacement and can be considered socially and culturally irreparable on the other hand there are reinvestment in the neighborhood’s infrastructure. Going back to Harlem’s historical context, it has has harmed the neighborhood economically by recreating ghettos and its failure to reconstruct its infrastructure because of the aforementioned. Specifically in 1930, Harlem suffered by augmenting its crime rate, this has happened before Harlem being gentrified. During the process of gentrification later on in 1986, this neighborhood began to regenerate Harlem’s economy and real estate. Black middle class being can be pointed as positive effects for Black population, since before gentrification Black Culture has been seen more as a minority more than a community being able to succeed. Nowadays in the 21st century, Gentrification has arisen its economic revitalization where housing and security for the low income residents has been provided.