{"id":17633,"date":"2022-06-24T06:05:54","date_gmt":"2022-06-24T06:05:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/?p=17633"},"modified":"2022-07-25T16:00:56","modified_gmt":"2022-07-25T16:00:56","slug":"my-third-week-in-detroit-gentry-giants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.lsa.umich.edu\/dcerp\/2022\/06\/24\/my-third-week-in-detroit-gentry-giants\/","title":{"rendered":"Third Week In Detroit: Gentry Giants"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I found the excerpts from <em>How to Kill a City<\/em> incredibly compelling. The book did a good job of contextualizing the current economic moment that Detroit is experiencing. It was especially relevant considering that I currently live in the 7.2 bubble that the book described. I take the Q-line to an office in the center of downtown to work for a non-profit that has Dan Gilbert on its board of directors. The ways in which conglomerates like Rock Finacial and the city of Detroit seem to be working in tandem is deeply unsettling.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The actual process by which many people in Detroit have been forced out of their homes differs from how I previously understood gentrification. Gentrification had always been described to me in terms of rent, with landlords forcing out tenants who couldn\u2019t afford to compete with wealthier potential tenants or a hot housing market. This had been galvanized by my own experiences, as my family was forced to move whenever an informal rent agreement fell through as property values rose and landlords realized they could make more money selling the property. Within this model, owning your home is what would insulate you and you might actually benefit from rising property values. 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