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THE 'GAYTRIFITN' EFFECT: WHY GAY NEIGHBOURHOODS ARE BEG PRICED OUT

Affluent and unhampered by children – or so the myth go – LGBT cy-dwellers have long been at the vanguard of transformg ndown neighbourhoods. But now gentrifitn is threateng even the most proment gay villag * level gay village *

This is a phenomenon that has also stck straight pubs and clubs, of urse; ’s jt that, unlike gay venu, they don’t yet risk beg an endangered all reasons for the closur are entirely bad.

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Photograph: Ron Gerelli/Getty ImagWhile Bra the wang of gay-intified neighbourhoods is largely nfed to London, outsi the UK is a phenomenon that is beg played out across many wtern ci.

Affluent and unhampered by children – or so the myth go – this group is always the g vanguard of gentrifyg areas, pricg out long-term lols and leavg behd a trail of look-but-don’t-touch furnure shops and overpriced are urban gay people who are watchg their stutns and neighbourhoods disappear merely reapg what they sowed?

Those wh the means were th more likely to look for hog that was cheap enough to buy outright: for example, 1950s Soho (for gay men) and the Hebn Bridge, Wt Yorkshire, of the 1960s and 70s (for lbians).

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Florida’s theory placed gay people at the heart of urban regeneratn, part of a gentrifyg vanguard along wh creative and tech workers and “high bohemians”, who together helped to repopulate and refurbish prevly ndown urban areas. If this tolerance of gay people is matched by a higher level of foreign-born rints and racial mixg, is even more likely to attract the creative workers on which a cy’s enomic succs pends. In other words, the more gay people your cy attracts, the more tolerant is likely to Jo Jo’s nightclub London’s Soho was forced to close November 2014.

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Acrdg to soclogy profsor Am Ghaziani, who rearched the subject extensively while wrg his book, There Go the Gayborhood?, there is evince om North Ameri to back up assumptns that LGBT rints boost property pric. “We know that areas that have large ncentratns of gays and lbians experience greater creas hog pric pared to the US natnal average, ” Ghaziani says.

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