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Week 7 Reflection

Week 7 Reflection

Q . Describe what you learned about gentrification, Seattle's neighborhood histories, and the influence of global capitalism on property ownership in Seattle? In the face of gentrification how have local communities organized themselves to protect their history, businesses, sense of community, and their way of life?

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Gentrification is an epitome of natural disaster for the black community in Central District. Gentrification aka the development of the community has ripped apart the black residents from their own community. Standing in the threshold of gentrification, black people have seen their complete disappearance from the community once enjoyed by them. It was 1950-60 that 73% of the black people thrived in the Central District and now in 2015, it reduced to 20%. The sky-high prices of the houses in the community make black people leave their places and search for their habitats in the other communities and sometimes they ended up in the fringes of the urban society which was evident in the documentary of “Priced Out”. In the article, “How Foreign Investment is Changing our Neighborhoods”, Jenny Cunningham mentions the amount of global capitalism used in the development of Seattle. How Seattleites have been replaced by the Chinese and percentage is increasing day by day.