Cleanup Crew Hits Cedar Hill Streets

Cleanup Crew Hits Cedar Hill Streets

There is another crew coming to Cedar Hill Streets.

The Gentrification Vampire Crew.In fact they even made a movie about how the Gentrification Vampire Crews are taking over the Bronx.In fact saw it last night.

VAMPIRES VS THE BRONX | Official Trailer | Netflix

https://youtu.be/k2yfp6oj2hw

Vampires vs. the Bronx
2020 | PG-13 | 1h 25m | Comedies
Three gutsy kids from a rapidly gentrifying Bronx neighborhood stumble upon a sinister plot to suck all the life from their beloved community.

https://www.netflix.com/title/80998174



Gentrification is the real horror in "Vampires vs. the Bronx"

https://thetacomaledger.com/2020/10/26/gentrification-is-the-real-horror-in-vampires-vs-the-bronx/

This improvised federal mega funding of who knows what on a national level is NOT the Marshall Plan for our cities we need, but I'm happy for the guys who have some paying jobs.

The program that coordinates Emerge with the city's Public Works department to provide job training, an opportunity for former offenders to give back, and beautifying the city shouldn't be just a one year pandemic relief funded program. It should be an ongoing program that is state and federal funded in all cities and large towns. This program benefits everyone and helps ex offenders to give back to the communities that they harmed, to learn construction related and landscaping and other public works job skills, develop communication skills, develop work ethics, develop cooperation skills, and to beautify their communities streets, parks and recreation facilities.

Great work by the Crew.

That said... "You're doing a great job," he said. "This was one of the worst streets." Now it's looking like a place one can be prouder to call home."

Really?

Where is the inherent responsibility, with neighborhood residents and business owners, to keep their neighborhoods clean without mustering outside help? Where is the pride in maintaining a clean neighborhood?

When I walk outside and see litter on the sidewalk or street, I pick it up! That's what makes "a place place prouder to call home".

Hartman13, a crew of Cedar Hills residents is doing exactly that every Friday evening this summer. They meet at Cedar Hill Playground at 6. Same as last summer. You (and anyone else) are welcome to join..

ThreeFifths, last time I checked, Cedar Hills (which has some wonderful residents, see above) is not in the Bronx. Parts of the Bronx are indeed gentrifying. I haven't seen any evidence of this in Cedar Hill.

posted by: Kevin McCarthy on August 14, 2021 1:12pm

ThreeFifths, last time I checked, Cedar Hills (which has some wonderful residents, see above) is not in the Bronx. Parts of the Bronx are indeed gentrifying. I haven't seen any evidence of this in Cedar Hill.

Trust me.The Gentrification Vampires are on the way.

ThreeFifths, you have been saying this for years. With the exception of a few small areas, e.g. Mansfield Street and environs, it has not happened in New Haven.

I've lived in New Haven for 35 years. During that time, no neighborhood has gone from predominantly African-American or Hispanic and working class/lower income to predominantly white, higher income. Dixwell, Dwight, Fair Haven, Newhallville, the Hiil, and West River were predominantly African-American and/or Hispanic when I moved here. They all still are. Conversely, neighborhoods that were predominantly white have seen substantial increases in African-American and Hispanic residents (which is fine). The East Shore is 20% African-American and 10% Hispanic, according to DataHaven. Westville is 28% African-American and 10% Hispanic. (DataHaven's numbers are taken from the Census Bureau's American Community Survey and are a couple of years old. The current numbers are probably a little higher.)

Obviously, gentrification has occurred in other cities, most notably New York. Harlem, particularly West Harlem, and many other NYC neighborhoods have gentrified. But in spite of your innumerable links to things happening in the city, New Haven is not NYC. Can you name a single New Haven neighborhood that has experienced a change remotely comparable to West Harlem?

What has happened in New Haven, and almost everywhere else, is that rents have gone up faster than incomes. Affordability is a real problem, but it is not the same thing as gentrification. And the fact that few well-off folks have moved to Dixwell, etc. has not made it any easier for its residents to pay the rent.

DHartman et al. my mistake - it's 5:30 p.m.

Kevin McCarthy- what you are saying is what has happened in the past history of gentrification in this city, what Three Fifths is saying and what I have been seeing is what is happening right now, and what the ultimate result will be, based on what has happened to many other cities around the country previously.
In the past, we haven't seen the tremendous amount of properties sold in the numbers we have seen over the past two years. We haven't seen this many market rate and luxury new builds and remodels and rehabs being done. We haven't seen the tremendous amount of real estate developers, real estate investors, and mega landlords buying up properties right and left at inflated prices all over the city, even in neighborhoods usually not seen as profitable for investment. We haven't ever seen the seen the relentless unprecedented marketing of New Haven as the next hot place to live and buy. We haven't seen such a rise in rents as we have seen in the past five years. We have been noticing the businesses and food and beverage establishments changing from catering to everyone from all walks of life in the city, to focusing primarily on the students and the upper classes, both in terms of prices and in terms of the types of customers those establishments attract and appeal and market to.My siblings both visited the city from out of state over the last five years and remarked on how different things are here and how yuppified it has become and they don't recognize it downtown much anymore. Some people see that as progress, and while the city has previously seen an excruciatingly slow pace of progress in the past, what we are seeing now is at such a rapid pace it's hard to keep up. We see poor people and lower middle class people being forced out of the market, both from stagnation in wages, and rise in rents. 20 years ago I could find a 1 bedroom for 550/month, 30 years ago I could find a two bedroom for 550/month, today you can't find a studio for that price.

Heather, gentrification certainly happens. But nationally, the vast majority of neighborhoods whose residents were predominantly POC and lower income a decade or two ago still are, as is the case in New Haven. The number of such neighborhoods where the average income (adjusted for inflation) has gone down greatly exceeds where the number where the average income has gone up (i.e., those that have experienced gentrification).

For gentrification to happen, higher-income people have to move to neighborhoods currently populated primarily by lower-income people. The bulk of the city's current higher-income households are happily ensconced in their homes in East Rock, Westville, etc. Few of them are going to move to lower-income neighborhoods. Among other things, there are very substantial transaction costs. There will be high-income people who will move from outside of New Haven to lower-income neighborhoods here. But New Haven is not Austin - it is experiencing very modest population growth - 0.3% per year.

FWIW, $550 in 1991 dollars is $1,100 today (using the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation). This is close to the median (average) rent in the New Haven market, according to the Census Bureau. You couldn't rent a newly constructed apartment for this amount. But you could rent about half of the existing apartments here.

The number of newly-built apartments appears to be large because very few were built for many years. In recent years, about 500 new apartments have been built per year. Assuming no existing units are destroyed or converted to other uses, this is a growth rate of 1% per year.

There is a real housing affordability crisis here. But that is true in neighborhoods that have seen minimal private new construction - the Annex, West Rock, etc , as well as those that have seen extensive development.

Heather, gentrification certainly happens. But nationally, the vast majority of neighborhoods whose residents were predominantly POC and lower income a decade or two ago still are, as is the case in New Haven. The number of such neighborhoods where the average income (adjusted for inflation) has gone down greatly exceeds where the number where the average income has gone up (i.e., those that have experienced gentrification).

For gentrification to happen, higher-income people have to move to neighborhoods currently populated primarily by lower-income people. The bulk of the city's current higher-income households are happily ensconced in their homes in East Rock, Westville, etc. Few of them are going to move to lower-income neighborhoods. Among other things, there are very substantial transaction costs. There will be high-income people who will move from outside of New Haven to lower-income neighborhoods here. But New Haven is not Austin - it is experiencing very modest population growth - 0.3% per year.

FWIW, $550 in 1991 dollars is $1,100 today (using the Consumer Price Index as the measure of inflation). This is close to the median (average) rent in the New Haven market, according to the Census Bureau. You couldn't rent a newly constructed apartment for this amount. But you could rent about half of the existing apartments here.

The number of newly-built apartments appears to be large because very few were built for many years. In recent years, about 500 new apartments have been built per year. Assuming no existing units are destroyed or converted to other uses, this is a growth rate of 1% per year.

There is a real housing affordability crisis here. But that is true in neighborhoods that have seen minimal private new construction - the Annex, West Rock, etc , as well as those that have seen extensive development.

I'm glad to see the City of New Haven begin to pay workers to help maintain our public spaces and green infrastructures around town. Yes people need to be more responsible and stop littering. How do we get there? In the meantime I appreciate that so many residents volunteer to clean up after the rest of us - there are many. I also am glad that my taxpayer dollars are spent on environmental clean up. Thank you EMERGE for your interest in doing this work and I'm glad that you are paid for it.

@Lynne B: New Haven needs its local version of the Conservation Corp on a permanent basis.