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Originally Posted by Capsicum
Right, how is it that immigrant enclaves avoid being gentrified out of existence near the expensive parts of big inner cities?
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Rent control and tenant protections, mostly.
Chinatowns are being gentrified, BTW. Manhattan Chinatown is shrinking and has been gentrifying for decades.
It probably would't even exist if there weren't rent controls and strict anti-harrassment and anti-condo conversion laws, keeping below-markets tenants in-place for life, and allowing elderly to pass on apartments to the next generations.
I don't know the particulars of SF Chinatown, but I suspect it's much the same. The only reason it doesn't look like adjacent areas demographically is because the govt. does everything in its power to prevent this (kinda like Tenderloin).
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Originally Posted by Capsicum
Or it just a matter of time, that eventually they will?
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It will take a LONG time, but I suspect in 100 years Manhattan Chinatown will cease to exist. The fact that any tenant can pass their apartment down is a huge firewall against mass gentrification.
But the vast majority of the Chinese community is already in Brooklyn and Queens Chinatowns. Flushing is the newly dominant Chinatown and South Brooklyn is the fastest growing community and has like 5x the Chinese population of Manhattan Chinatown.