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Posted by ntrainride on Thu Mar 26 08:18:28 2015, in response to Re: Myrtle Avenue El, posted by Edwards! on Wed Mar 18 03:08:14 2015. simple. the earlier white inhabitants experienced post-war increases in income and became able to afford larger living quarters. concurrently, the earlier inhabitants started having families (with more than one child) and hence, started needing larger living quarters. the earlier inhabitants started buying cars, and needed to take car ownership issues, i.e.: storage, into consideration. the urban density of housing and recreation wasn't a good fit for car-oriented families. due to various governmental policies (of which a strong case can be presented that it was only doing what the majority of the population desired) which enabled new housing and new highways to the relatively empty lands around the city. the construction industry was enormously helped by this, and worked hard to encourage it to continue. all these events resulted in a lot of emptying apartments. landlords started renting them to people who perhaps, for various reasons didn't or couldn't,collectively, maintain the housing and the neighborhoods. btw, while the first players in this scenario were "white",, the process itself has continued to this day, with the " browns" and the "blacks". yet, especially in brooklyn, young whire families have " rediscovered" these neighborhoods their grandparents abandoned. leading to seeing young white moms pushing baby carriages down broadway under the el.nobody "owns" the streets, the neighborhoods in brooklyn. nobody. |
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