The Power Of Gentrification

"Even during the 1980s — when the gentrification of Santa Fe was set on stun — the seven little streets that branch off West San Francisco Street, just west of the Plaza, remained quietly ghetto. Perhaps it was the neighborhood’s proximity to the public-housing project on West Alameda that kept gentrification away from Park Avenue, Daniel, Duran, Elena, Candelario, Quintana and Jimenez streets.

...It didn’t last. Eventually people saw past the toppled shopping carts and the tennis shoes flung over power lines... Now almost every other home on these narrow dead-end streets has been remodeled, or razed and replaced with a brand-spanking new one.

...Further gentrification seems inevitable, especially with the recent announcement that the Civic Housing Authority is considering tearing down the Villa Alegre housing projects."

Thanks to Profession of New Urbanism Listserv