My thought is this, gentrification usually happens alongside with redlining more often then not, if not all the time. This prevents poorer population from getting the advantages of gentrification, because they have been isolated from the gentrified district/area/location due to redlining, one example of advantage being public school. Redlining is illegal now (doesn't stop the sneaky racists), but it was done so much in the past, that the minorities - majority being the black population- are stuck in this mud where they are not able to rise up from proverty, all due to inituitionalized racism. Which is often why you'll see only majority white school, or majority black school, not a whole of school with a sense of balance.
Gentrification is all fun and dandy, if you are making above a mean wage, but if you are poor, just barely able to scrap by, you'll be displaced due to high rent, if you were renting. And if you own the house, and live in predominantly middle to upper class neighborhood, gentrification is beneficial to you. However, if you are in a lower class minority neighborhood, and you own a home, you'll see that gentrification usually happens around you and not where you are (due to redlining). And if it happens where you are, you'll soon notice that the gentrification process slows down or stop altogether, thus you won't reap the benefits altogether.
Thus, gentrification in it ideal, is a good thing, but what we need to do, is to allow for more balance in districting, where and how tax money flows back into the neighborhood evenly, to lower/eliminate the disparity between the upper and lower class, allow for middle-class population to grow. If you are living in a poor neighborhood, chances are the school applied to that neighborhood is not getting ahold lot of funding, same with other other public services, like maintenance of road, maintenance of electrical equipment, mainteance of sewages, maintenance of water supply for that neighborhood.
And due to the increasing disparity in wealth, you'll only belong in one of the following classes, lower or upper, no in between.
So you can logically say, "I am poor", or " I am rich"
