Gentrification does benefit some poor people........the people who managed to buy their own houses in the barrio or the ghetto. However, for most, it just pushes them out...........that's why we have to rehabilitate the people; not the neighborhoods. Let the capitalists do the neighborhood rehab.

Cleveland is trying to improve its tax base by getting NY artists to move to Cleveland and buy houses in poor neighborhoods for next to nothing. That might be good for Cleveland's tax base but it doesn't change the plight of Cleveland's poor.