In Chicago various communities experience gentrification. Gentrification is when urban neighborhoods begin to change when wealthier residents start to move into a neighborhood that is mostly populated by lower income residents, and this usually exposes the neighborhood to major changes causing an increase in rent and taxes. A neighborhood that becomes gentrified usually goes through an urban renewal by expanding businesses and increasing the rent and taxes causing some of the previous residents to move out since they no longer can afford to live there. Gentrification in the Chicago area has shown how these previous residents have been affected in a negative way causing many to leave their homes and find somewhere else that is affordable to…show more content… Meanwhile, others say gentrification will benefit the community economically and improving it in the long run. The discourse of gentrification has shown its pros and cons as shown in the various sources collected for this review. These Chicago neighborhoods such as Humboldt Park and Pilsen have either experienced gentrification or have high chances of becoming gentrified. The authors presented in this paper have been chosen to explain how these neighborhoods are changing and have been shown to affect those who are living or once lived there, and as well relate how race and class are associated with gentrification. The articles presented will also establish how gentrification introduces new problems to the community according to these authors, and as well explain how gentrification can help the community prevent the problems it may currently have such as violence and…show more content… Vigdor explains how the poor are affected from gentrification as previously mentioned. One way they are affected is if these residents decide to stay, but are low-skill workers they are in higher risk of losing their jobs to high-skilled workers that move in. These workers then may lose their jobs due to the competitive market. Gentrification also has to do with businesses expanding, but sometimes some of these small businesses are forced to shut down because of these bigger corporations pushing them out (Vigdor). In her article “7 Reasons Why Gentrification Hurts Communities of Color”, Patricia Valoy explains how “Businesses have a hard time catering to two different types of clientele, though they often try to do so”, but new businesses open to cater these new residents causing competition with the old businesses and slowly changing the community. Valoy also presents a problem with the landlords and conveys that “It’s common to see landlords bully low-income tenants into moving out by not maintaining apartments or not renewing their lease, forcing residents to move out”. This shows how it becomes hard for these low-income tenants to keep living in these homes when their landlords knows someone else that is wealthier could pay more to rent from
