A Black neighborhood in West Dallas is disappearing as new townhomes rise

[@dbprice100]

History teaches us that change is inevitable.

[@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle]

In certain ways change occurs, but not in everyway. I have yet to see the U.S. laws change to allow murder to be legal.

[@dbprice100]

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicle You're example is rather extreme but the punishment for murder has changed many time.

[@THAQUEENB82]

It's a lot history books has left out.

[@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr]

@@HTV-2_Hypersonic_Glide_Vehicleits legal for the clintons!

[@jaeshasway]

I’d charge as much as possible, take the money and run. Invest the money, find a nice retirement complex, travel, enjoy the rest of your life and leave a small nest egg to the kids/grand kids. 98% of the time they will just sell it anyway after you’re gone.

[@Anthony-jd8pg]

If you grew up around this area or others like it & see what's happening, it's sad. If you're not from there, it's no big deal, crack jokes. Just listen to what these people are saying, it's f*cked up, but it's life.

[@gianni599]

Would of never thought west Dallas was going to be like how it is now slowly but surely

[@user-ljUCyNu15]

The area is not going to provide value for the new homeowners because it is a flood zone. West Dallas's value of the property has always been lower in an appraisal for a reason. It is next to the levy system which the city put in because of flooding. That part of town close to Downtown Dallas is an investment disaster area. Residents in the area understand city development but commercial investors are still trying to sell high and leave town when the Trinity River begins to fill and flood to no end.

[@bamsrevenge]

Yess it’s such a difference from when I was born in early 2000’s to right now 2023

[@patrickhamilton1617]

It was drug infested in the early 2000s I wonder what it's like now

[@LibraGoals]

I get calls too. I will never sellout what my people worked hard for. To whom do sell, better pay close attention & read the paper trail. That's why alot of black folks lost land back in the day. Them folks got ya when some black folks couldnt read & write.

[@SuccessfulladiesSoftLife]

Dog parks and bike paths took me out 🤣

[@mrRambleGamble]

Why aren't they improving the neighborhood on their own? Most places fall apart and then get gentrified while others improve over time as residents keep it nice/safe. They never really show how bad these places are before gentrification. The same happened in NYC, Paris, etc to create the beautiful places filled with art and architecture that we identify with city life. Take the money and move on. Immigrants move to another country for a better life, but here we have sob stories about but being able to leave a house.

[@starventure]

Wait....you want blacks to improve their own property? What are you smoking?

[@IamLucky87]

Gentrification at its finest ffs, smh.

[@jimihendrix7524]

Ya no offense but nobody should care about where they grew up at this much to complain about having to move to a different location and getting calls to buy your home 3,4,5times the amount you paid. That’s literally what most Americans families do that want to do

[@casperkittae2651]

Most people think cleaning up a slum is a good thing.

[@steven4315]

Not a slum.

[@kathyl3889]

This is happening every where not just BLACK neighborhoods! !!!!!! Even other neighborhoods now look like shit!

[@TheAnomics1]

This is where ignorance is corrected because it’s not happening “everywhere” gentrification has always been an issue in black and brown communities specifically because they are just that much cheaper. I’m neighborhoods of poverty such as Black and Latino neighborhoods, nobody owns property, so it makes it easier for Buyers to go in and Buy up the land at a cheaper price. In America that only happens in Black and brown communities

[@sistahb5159]

​@@TheAnomics1 Now let me correct you. This is happening in BLACK communities more than anywhere. It's sad that many Black people have been brainwashed into saying 'Black and Brown." It's usually only Black folks saying it. When Hispanics talk about their issues they only mention Hispanics or Brown. They usually don't say "Black and Brown" when they want to attach themselves because they want something that Black people should have or fighting to get. In many sanctuary cities and states throughout the US 🇺🇲, in the last 30 years Hispanics have come in illegally in masse. They have been placed by state and local governments with federal money in impoverished BLACK neighborhoods & siphoned of the few resources we have - housing, healthcare, schools, English as a Second Language (ESL) & GENTRIFIED our communities. As their numbers grew, the more their ANTI-BLACKNESS came out because they treat Afro-Mexicans & Afro-Latinos in their home countries like dirt. They co-opted Martin Luther King Jr.,called themselves "Dreamers" & stated that MLK wanted everyone to be free. Yet no one mentioned that MLK was against illegal immigration because it hurts Black the most. There are federal & state studies that show & confirm this. They drive down wages. Present day, these Brown people do NOT want Black people to have ANYTHING!!! ALL of the BLACK men working construction 🚧 & more jobs have been REPLACED by illegal anti-Black Hispanic (Brown) immigrants. And now 50% of the homeless in my city are BLACK. A decent number are veterans. In Chicago, 73% of the homeless (in cardboard boxes the street & shelters) are BLACK BUT some illegal immigrants pouring into the city are being put up in nice DOWNTOWN HOTELS!!! They have been in front & given PRIORITY over the homeless. Chicago's also placing these immigrants in schools in BLACK NEIGHBORHOODS ONLY & previously refused the Black community to use these closed schools as community centers, job training etc... They are NOT being placed in WHITE, HISPANIC or ASIAN, & giving them resources that Black people have NEVER gotten. THIS IS BENIGN NEGLECT & GENOCIDE!!! These illegal immigrants care less about YOU or any other Black person. Chicago & NY are looking for jobs for them while Black unemployment is double that of Whites & almost twice that of Hispanics. YET you feel the need to include people who unlike your ancestors (whose stolen & forced labor built the the US 🇺🇲). I wrote this much because YOU & other Black people need to realize that the "Black & Brown" coalition is a MYTH. They are NOT allies but enemies. PLEASE WAKE UP!!!

[@kathyl3889]

@@TheAnomics1 They take any and all color property do your research! If they want it they take it! It's just not in the fake news media

[@marriejames01]

@@TheAnomics1 Gentrification (developers) & “Urban Renewal (government). It’s willful ignorance at this point. It’s easy to see and search what’s happening in these communities. The elderly shouldn’t be forced out but because they’re Black, others don’t care.

[@orionxtc1119]

What about all the white areas like in Detoid where whites were forced out by blacks moving in????? beautiful house left

[@jasoneaton9477]

Sorry but the truth is it happens and will happen forever.. nothing stays the same in America...adapt

[@Smarterthanyou-mthrfkr]

Call the waambulance!, i am from london, i got pushed out because of huge foreign property investment companies, i cant afford to go live in my own home town. Its progress, adapt or die my friend’s, quit crying .

[@IamLucky87]

"Bri'ish" You got a license to be speaking up? I dont think you do lol.

[@codyehret8168]

This older woman is getting multiple offers on her home. Home values are up in her neighborhood and she could make a lot of money off selling. Why are we re-framing this as a bad thing?

[@truthseeker4298]

Older folks get attached to their dwellings more than others

[@TheAnomics1]

Because she probably doesn’t want to leave. She’s lived there her entire life. Wtf wants to move from a place they’re settled in

[@25447carepear]

You sound white and from California or Frisco.

[@clayscloset2618]

You’re clearly ignorant and don’t know the history of the area, or don’t take into consideration how the lower socioeconomic and minority groups in Dallas and other cities have been treated so poorly forever and now are being pushed out of their areas. You might think that they can just take the money and go, but like this nice lady that’s her home, she can’t go and re-create That field because it won’t be the same people will it? And you’re thinking she might get some huge amount, but that huge amount might only allow her to buy something very far away from there so why would she want to do that? It’s wrong what’s happening to some of these areas, and as I drive around the city daily for work I’m very afraid that South Dallas is next. Some will say that’s great but south Dallas has been ignored for so long and taken advantage of by North Dallas and the elite and now people invest but just to take their land and gentrify it instead of trying to build it up like I should’ve decades ago. But we know that that was all based on race.

[@ttnecniv1321]

Not everyone is in it for the money. Also this is a place that families have lived generations in.

[@lashg]

This is so sad 😞

[@chipwilliams6236]

they are doing the same thing in the wards in houston texas

[@hernandezmarkie7382]

Good

[@blizzyTX]

The neighborhood does not belong to anyone. Had the children been more neighborly, the property values would have increased and the neighborhood wouldn't be vulnerable. Generation is a blessing, as everyone would rather live in a neighborhood with dog parks and bike lanes vs. overgrown lawns and dilapidated structures.

[@clayscloset2618]

So please explain in further detail how the gentrification and the pushing out of people is due to children not being polite. That is dumber than anything Trump has even said regarding economics in a race and we all know he’s a bigot and greedy. You’re clearly one as well and don’t have any empathy for people who have made that their home their whole lives and their families have lived there for generations And you’re OK with them being pushed out for dog park, how sad. If you think it’s a great are you living over there already? Do you really want to live in a cookie-cutter neighborhood it’s boring? The developers could’ve done more to help the area or revitalizing it.

[@connor_flanigan]

I'd like to see interviews of White people who had to literally walk away from (not even sell) their homes in Detroit, Baltimore, St Louis, Philadelphia, etc, complete with sad piano music.

[@SIGNALFREQ]

😂 ✌🏽

[@rdottwordottwo2286]

Process is not always in the best interest for everyone!

[@hernandezmarkie7382]

Its sad but she needs to play it smart and dont take the 1st 2nd or 3rd offer hold out

[@steven4315]

Big problem is an absence of small affordable move in ready homes to move to.

[@lonestaronestar1845]

So the neighborhood is becoming less segregated and that's a bad thing???

[@Doug_E_Lewis]

Came here to basically say that 😂

[@georgiadriven]

@@Doug_E_Lewis exactly 😅

[@TheAnomics1]

Less segregated how? Gentrification does not lead to integration. 9/10 when a neighborhood is gentrified the main Newcomers are almost always white.

[@sistahb5159]

They are driving out Black homeowners who were in this HISTORICAL BLACK neighborhood when no one else wanted. It's GENTRIFICATION & GENOCIDE! If you think that's good & just, understand the God is watching. He is very patient so you think you won't be judged for your mockery, but rest assured, you will.

[@GSM92]

​@@TheAnomics1whites passing thru houston

[@uriber-x7o]

Love field neighborhood is going the same way

[@chosen1520]

why do people like to play victims???? people just like to complain, if the neighborhood was neglected, they'd complain too. theres no winning with people.

[@THECDG999]

Chinese investors

[@caingonzalez7522]

Man. I love. My West Dallas. 😢can’t move us no where.

[@lonestaronestar1845]

What's the Senses look like in your zipcode writer of this piece?

[@THAQUEENB82]

*census

[@johng.7560]

Honestly, she could get a small fortune for a shack. I know she does not want to move, but at least she would get enough money to buy a much nicer home.

[@THECDG999]

da hood !

[@soulshine8531]

Yeah totally neglected and shunned till the wealthy movers and shakers then they had the citizens pay for a fancy bridge to be built to west Dallas then they could start buying up the property and make even more money for them and developer friends.

[@mrkjsmooth16]

Ytees

[@KrGsMrNKusinagi0]

progress hurts sometimes.. If you dont want to move dont sell.. I would drop the place ASAP given its inevitable.. At some point what is it worth when everything else is gone