Why is gentrification bad?

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I’m from a country considered third-world and a common vacation spot for foreigners. One of our islands have a lot of foreigners even living there long-term. I see a lot of posts online complaining on behalf of the locals living there and saying this is such a bad thing.

Currently, I fail to see how this is bad but I’m scared to asks on other social media platforms and be seen as having colonial mentality or something.

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Because high income households tend to have larger square footage per person. When gentrification pushes the poorer people out, they are forced into even more overcrowding or just outright homelessness. Urban California is the living example of this.

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