{"id":126221,"date":"2015-11-13T05:49:36","date_gmt":"2015-11-13T11:49:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126221"},"modified":"2015-11-13T05:49:36","modified_gmt":"2015-11-13T11:49:36","slug":"the-price-of-hipness-cultural-disruption-displacement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/?p=126221","title":{"rendered":"The Price of Hipness: Cultural Disruption &#038; Displacement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ti.org\/antiplanner\/?p=11120\" target=\"_blank\">Read it.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Educator and writer Michael Copperman has discovered that Portland\u2019s hip scene has come at a price: young people moving to Portland from other parts of the country have gentrified North Portland, traditionally a heavily black neighborhood, and displaced blacks to the suburbs. \u201cThe number of people living in poverty in Portland\u2019s suburbs shot up almost 100 percent between 2000 and 2011,\u201d observes Copperman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Portland is, of course, justly famous as the whitest city in America.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>While such income and racial integration might be welcome, it has its costs as well. While the whites gentrifying North Portland neighborhoods enjoy food carts, boutique restaurants, and ethnic grocery stores, displaced blacks are not better off in the suburbs and in many cases are worse off, replacing the single-family homes they rented with cramped apartments.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSuburban Portland, home to the most notorious white West Coast gangs, has in some hotspots become a turf war apartment complex by apartment complex, the traditional Crips and Bloods of urban Portland overlapping areas dominated by the European Kindred and affiliates, all battling to control lucrative sex trafficking operations off the I-5 Corridor,\u201d says Copperman, a transition that is pretty much invisible to recently arrived Millennials.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read it. Educator and writer Michael Copperman has discovered that Portland\u2019s hip scene has come at a price: young people moving to Portland from other parts of the country have gentrified North Portland, traditionally a heavily black neighborhood, and displaced blacks to the suburbs. \u201cThe number of people living in poverty in Portland\u2019s suburbs shot [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-dystopia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126221"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126221\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126222,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126221\/revisions\/126222"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dyspepsiageneration.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}