I'm really glad that the love of houses over people was pointed out. In both Highland Park and Boyle Heights the anti-gentrifying people are saying this too and it's been humorous to watch the gentrifiers try to deny it with big eyes and frightened looks. But you have to put a big amount of blame on homeowners who don't take care of their rentals. Montecito Heights is different. The homeowners take care of their rentals, so gentrifiers stay away. - Anika

"The liberal discourse on gentrification has absolutely nothing to say about finance or prison, the two most salient institutions in urban life. Instead, it does what liberal discourse so often does: it buries the structural forces at work and choreographs a dance about individual choice to perform on the grave." - Victor Ganata