'white flight' is an American term. It's the movement of mostly-white middle class people from the cities out into the suburbs as a response to rising levels of poverty & crime amongst the inner cities' lower classes (especially, in this context, black and hispanic groups), leading in turn to a reduction in the city administrations' incomes and thus to poorer public services which make things even worse in the inner cities, which leads to more middle-class people moving out, etc...No knowledge - please explain...
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that is what leads to ghettoizing in the first place (keep them (the other) in their place) you would need to change the whole racist/fear of the other mind set of the American public,Stricter zoning laws early on?
What makes you so sure that nobody did exploit that?Surprised no one tried to exploit that. Pay a minority family a healthy sum to move into a white neighborhood, wait for the idiots to starts to sell and the scared sheep to follow them, buy up all the property at a reduced rate, pay the minority family to move to another neighborhood, sell all the houses at a premium ("This is a good neighborhood historically associated with...the right sort of people, if you know what I mean") to more white families. Rinse, repeat, exploiting the predictability of racists for profit.
Thats acually a business practice called "Blockbusting". Look it up its alittle more complicated but thats the small of it.Surprised no one tried to exploit that. Pay a minority family a healthy sum to move into a white neighborhood, wait for the idiots to starts to sell and the scared sheep to follow them, buy up all the property at a reduced rate, pay the minority family to move to another neighborhood, sell all the houses at a premium ("This is a good neighborhood historically associated with...the right sort of people, if you know what I mean") to more white families. Rinse, repeat, exploiting the predictability of racists for profit.
What is interesting is that in the metroplex that I live in, young urban professionals have been moving into the former African American and Hispanic districts. The districts are close to downtown which has really been redeveloped. The districts are close to major highways and the airport. The homes while small are often in decent shape. They are buying these bungalows, remodeling, and upgrading them. In some cases if the home is too far gone to remodel, they tear it down and build a two-three story house that takes up the entire small lot.
Unfortunately for the minorities, is that the price of housing in these areas has climbed to very high levels. Due to the property tax rates, many who own their home are being forced to sell since they can not keep paying the property taxes. Since the tax form tells them what the property is apprasied for, they expect to get more than that. Some times they have more than one couple that wants to buy their house. While they get a great price for their house, many are unhappy since they would rather live out their lifes in the old neighborhoods. Instead, they end up moving to outskirts of the City and it is not the same.
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The best way to do that, IMO, is to not have the Supreme Court decide to use busing as a means of integration.
Stopping the late 1960s riots would probably go a long way to helping slow down white flight, even if it wouldn't stop it outright.