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LEA1 Civilisation
Week 9
Coming up
Week 10: Streaming video on demand was already impacting
the film industry before the pandemic hit. There’s currently a
huge debate over whether OTT* platforms will take over the
movie theater experience to be the future of the film industry
or they will peacefully coexist? Give your opinion.
Week 11: EXAM
Week 12: Assuming you are an investor, would you rather put
your money into dotcom companies or water technology
companies? Should the tech industries like Google and Apple
help to better manage global water resources?
ARTICLE ANALYSIS
'WE STILL CANNOT NEGLECT OUR ROOTS' | LONGTIME UPTOWN CHARLOTTE
RESIDENTS CONCERNED ABOUT GENTRIFICATION PUSHING PEOPLE OUT
WCNC, Lana Harris, April 27, 2021
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — While the city of Charlotte looks to create more affordable
housing to bring people in, people who've lived in neighborhoods around Uptown
for decades are now concerned about gentrification pushing them out.
Beverly Knox-Davis (founder for A Brighter Day Ministries and Outreach) said she
became curious after seeing new homes in the area like that are larger, more
modern and expensive builds. “That is not in alignment with the rest of the homes
and it sticks out,” Knox-Davis said, adding she believes it could be the beginning of
the ugly side of gentrification.
“As the unaffordable homes are built, I think the taxes will be raised, I think some of
the seniors and people that are maybe young and just starting out, I don’t believe
that they’ll be able to afford the taxes,” Knox-Davis said.
They wouldn’t be the first. Nichel Thompson said it's the same thing that happened
in the Cherry community. Thompson said she’s lived in the community for 10 years
and seen gentrification run its course.
“I do know that some of them were displaced into situations of homelessness, I do
know a few of them had to go into hotels,” Thompson said.
• affordable housing
Vocabulary
• = any shelter or lodging believed to be • ugly side
within one's financial means • = (unattractive, unsightly appearance)
negative aspect
• neighborhoods
• = areas or regions around or near some • unaffordable
place • = expensive, costly
Gentrification • starting out

= the buying and repair or replacement of • = just starting a professional activity
houses in poor, working-class by more
wealthy individuals. • Cherry (Community)
• = a historical African-American
• (not) in alignment with neighborhood community in Charlotte
• = not in accordance or harmony, not
adjusted • run its course
• = to develop and finish naturally
• to stand up for ('standing up’)
• = to defend, advocate, support • homelessness
• = the state of being without a home
• stick out
• = to stand out or project beyond the
main line
QUESTIONS
1. Present the source, the author, the topic of the article,
and briefly explain the context.
2. Why are the residents so concerned about gentrification?

How has gentrification affected the neighborhoods and
communities in Uptown Charlotte?
3. Is gentrification primarily a positive or negative force?

What can be done to prevent the negative attributes of
gentrification in order to ensure greater justice?
1. Present the source of the article
WCNC-TV is a television station in
Charlotte, North Carolina (USA),
affiliated with NBC whose media bias
is Lean-Left.
WCNC or Channel 36 was established
as an independent television station in
1967 and was run by Ted Turner
throughout the 1970s.
Currently owned by Tegna Inc., the
station became Charlotte's NBC
affiliate in 1978 and has generally
been its third-rated television station
since.
1) Present the author and the topic of the article
Author: The article was released by WCNC webpage on April
27, 2021. It was written by Lana Harris, an American journalist
who serves as the Sunday morning anchor and weekday
reporter at WCNC-TV in Charlotte.
Topic of the article: As Some of Charlotte’s historically Black

neighborhoods face increasing pressure from gentrification, a
group of residents and neighborhood associations is expressing
anger and concerns over rising housing costs and how their
communities are being impacted.
2. Why are the residents so concerned about
gentrification?
Gentrification has been extremely damaging for residents and
communities in Charlotte. Many lower-income residents are
unable to afford home ownership, or their access to
homebuying processes have been blocked through decades of
illegal mortgage practices.
Numbers of renters in these neighborhoods are especially

vulnerable to market changes. When their neighborhoods
begin gentrifying, their rent prices can quickly skyrocket, as
landlords, realizing the new financial potential of their
properties, substantially raise the rents. This results in driving
people out of their homes, allowing landlords to rent those
same apartments for far more money to the incoming,
gentrifying class.
2. How has gentrification affected the neighborhoods
and communities in Uptown Charlotte?
Forced out of their homes, the neighborhoods and

communities in Uptown Charlotte aren’t just leaving their
apartments behind, they are leaving their social networks—
their friends, family, schools, places of worship, and
businesses they frequent.
They also are tasked with finding a new apartment, which
takes time and resources, and becomes more and more
difficult in a shrinking affordable market.
As a consequence, some longtime low-income residents of
these neighborhoods have become homeless.
Presentation
3. Is gentrification primarily a positive or negative force?
What can be done to prevent the negative attributes of
gentrification in order to ensure greater justice?
Gentrification Impacts
Gentrification has become a highly controversial topic in areas
where the process has occurred. Whilst politicians, real estate
companies and the middle class perceive the process as a method
of countering urban decay and attracting taxpayers; the urban
poor experience greater costs of living, the breakdown of their
social networks and the ultimate risk of being evicted and
displaced.
Whether gentrification should be supported, or whether it should
be controlled, constricted and prevented is therefore a topical
debate.
Gentrification occurs when “communities experience an influx of capital and

concomitant goods and services in locales where those resources were previously non-
existent or denied.”[1] Usually, gentrification occurs when more affluent people move
to or become interested in historically less affluent neighborhoods.
[1] Sabiyha Prince, African Americans and Gentrification in Washington, DC: Race, Class
and Social Justice in the Nation’s Capital 2 (2014).
Positive Neighbourhood Impacts:
(Atkinson and Bridge, 2005)
Prevents a continuing spiral of decline in areas, consequently
stabilising the area. The change in tenure from predominantly
renting to owner occupied also contributes to the stabilisation of
the area.
The value of property remarkably increases in the area affected.
Unoccupied houses become occupied, thus reducing the vacant
housing rates in the area.
An increase in local fiscal revenues occurs.
Decreased crime.
As well as this, the social mix witnesses an increase in the area.
Encouragement and increased viability of further development in
the gentrified area. This development consequently reduces
suburban sprawl.
Visible physical rehabilitation of property occurs through a
combination of private investment and state sponsorship.
Negative Neighbourhood Impacts:
(Atkinson and Bridge, 2005)
As the gentrification process develops, rent prices increase and the

original inhabitants of the area are displaced.
Secondary psychological impacts may arise as a result of displacement.
Displaced individuals may become homeless.
Unsustainable speculative property price increases.
Resentment emerges within the community and conflict can occur
between the original inhabitants and the middle class gentrifiers.
Affordable housing in the area becomes scarce and eventually non-
existent.
The type of local services alters and the price increases.
Increased crime.
A loss of social diversity occurs; from the socially disparate to rich
ghettos.
Under-occupancy and population loss to gentrified areas occurs.
Housing demand pressures can occur on surrounding areas when the
displaced seek to relocate.
NORTH CAROLINA
QUIZ
An Act to Provide for Single-sex Multiple Occupancy
Bathroom and Changing Facilities in Schools and Public
Agencies and to Create Statewide Consistency in Regulation
of Employment and Public Accommodations
What is the Bathroom Bill (also called House

Bill 2 or HB2)?
Raleigh
What is the capital city of North Carolina, and

one of the South's most vibrant, eclectic cities ?
Oct. 10, 2014
When did a U.S. District Court judge strike down North

Carolina's ban on same-sex marriages?
Research and Technology
What is one of the major sectors of the

economy in North Carolina?
A legal case pushed by Feminist movements in which the
US Supreme Court on January 22, 1973 ruled that unduly
restrictive state regulation of abortion is unconstitutional.
What is Roe V. Wade?

It is the largest city in the state of North Carolina
with a population of 809,958.
What is the population of Charlotte?

Passed by Congress on June 4, 1919 and ratified on August
18, 1920, it granted women the right to vote and legally
guarantees American women the right to vote.
What is the XIXth Amendement?

A common nickname for a metropolitan area of North
Carolina, anchored by the cities of Raleigh and Durham and
the town of Chapel Hill, home to three major research
universities (North Carolina State University, Duke
University, and University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill).
What is the Research Triangle?

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Week 11: EXAM

Gentrification • starting out

2. Why are the residents so concerned about gentrification?

3. Is gentrification primarily a positive or negative force?

Topic of the article: As Some of Charlotte’s historically Black

Numbers of renters in these neighborhoods are especially

Forced out of their homes, the neighborhoods and

Gentrification occurs when “communities experience an influx of capital and

As the gentrification process develops, rent prices increase and the

What is the Bathroom Bill (also called House

What is the capital city of North Carolina, and

When did a U.S. District Court judge strike down North

What is one of the major sectors of the

What is Roe V. Wade?

What is the population of Charlotte?

What is the XIXth Amendement?

What is the Research Triangle?

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