{"id":12948,"date":"2015-03-31T20:07:12","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:07:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/alissasevrioukova\/?p=48"},"modified":"2015-03-31T20:07:12","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T20:07:12","slug":"march","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/march\/","title":{"rendered":"Us vs. Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/alissasevrioukova\/files\/2015\/03\/us-vs-them-logo.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-50\" src=\"http:\/\/challengedetroit.org\/blog\/alissasevrioukova\/files\/2015\/03\/us-vs-them-logo-300x168.jpg\" alt=\"us-vs-them-logo\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; a phrase that I&#8217;ve heard uttered dozens of times in my life, but one that&#8217;s\u00a0become all too common in Detroit and one that carries a\u00a0very particular message behind it: gentrification.<\/p>\n<p>As Detroit continues down the development road\u00a0(and let&#8217;s be clear &#8230; when people talk about Detroit developing, they really mean Downtown Detroit or the <a href=\"http:\/\/detroitsevenpointtwo.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">7.2<\/a>), there&#8217;s been much attention brought to the inequalities in how the development funding, resources, and attention have been allocated.<\/p>\n<p>Hence the &#8220;us vs. them&#8221; phrase has really come to refer to the haves, the Downtowners, the 7.2-ers, and the have nots, those who live in the other 130 square miles of the city, those in <em>the neighborhoods.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Though it was Nolan Finley&#8217;s article who brought\u00a0this conversation into the big leagues, with his &#8220;Where are all the black people?&#8221; article and subsequent follow ups,\u00a0the inequality conversations have been rumbling around the city for quite some time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; a phrase that I&#8217;ve heard uttered dozens of times in my life, but one that&#8217;s\u00a0become all too common in Detroit and one that carries a\u00a0very particular message behind it: gentrification. As Detroit continues down the development road\u00a0(and let&#8217;s be clear &#8230; when people talk about Detroit developing, they really mean Downtown Detroit or the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":19,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/19"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12948\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/challengedetroit.builtrare.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}