Essay On Gentrification In Berlin

Recently, a fight against gentrification has stirred up amongst the people of Berlin. Gentrification is the process by which middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods and renovate the housing. Gentrification affects the community because it changes the predominant majority of people that live there from the lower-class to the upper and middle class. This specifically affects Berlin because of its long history of the lower-class clustering in the inner-city. Because there are two sides, the lower-class and the upper-class, it influences the general community’s opinions on gentrification. The lower-class strongly oppose gentrification, while the wealthy upper-class completely support this process. The lower-class turns

It has generally been known to be filled with deteriorated neighborhoods with a majority of a underclass in its streets and inner-city neighborhoods. People of the lower-class typically clustered in the center of the city, near the central business district, but because of gentrification, the historic majority of lower-income people living in Berlin will change. Gentrification, being the process in which middle-class people move into the neighborhoods that are occupied primarily by the lower-class, will deeply affect the lower-class people. With middle and upper class people moving in, it raises the rents for housing. The value of the homes that the lower-class people live in will increase and rise and they will be required to start paying higher rents to their landlords, but the issue is that they do not have the money to afford it. This explains why the lower-class have been rallying up, and fighting against the gentrification movement into Berlin. They want reasonable house rents, and the only way to achieve their goal is to protest against gentrification into the