Blog Stage 7

The good old Austin we know and love, a place for breakfast tacos and breweries, is changing every day right before our eyes. In the past 10 years the Austin scene has seen a great amount of change, by pushing the poor people out of the east side and bringing the rich in. The gentrification system is leading the state to become more weak in my eyes, in order to have social and economical stability ,I feel that there should not be concentrated populations of rich as well as the poor. The United States will end up having slums and  estates like those seen in many countries in the world, like Saudi Arabia, Mexico, etc. Social flexibility cannot be obtained without the population feeling somewhat “equal” to their neighbor, and this is exactly what gentrification is doing to the US. The Austin, Tx we know and love is being gentrified right before our eyes. The east side is becoming less affordable every year “At the end of 2006, rents at 22 apartment buildings considered affordable along the East Riverside corridor ranged between $496 and $871.The Austinist has stated that this year, rents at those complexes range between $568 and $1,550” which is leading the more wealthy population to migrate to those areas, leaving the less fortunate to move to outer places like Del Valle (Chan, 2). The low income families that are relocating to Del Valle suffer have to suffer with food insecurity and worry about wether or not their children are getting the best education they can based on their location. Overall, there are many different opinions on if gentrification has positive results or negative results, obviously the rich believe it is a great tool for clearing geographic areas but a few of us Austinites would definitely agree it is not the only answer.