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As you know, gentrification involves the process of a neighborhood obtaining wealthier residents or having higher property values. However, why would Bedford-Stuyvesant attract wealthy residents and higher property values after the events that occurred there in the 1940s-1990s? There are many factors that can cause this change. The push and pull chart below will help you understand what those factors are. The voki on the left will also help you understand what a push and pull is and how it works.
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As you can see, there are many push factors that help explain why people have left or could not afford to stay at their previous neighborhood. There are also many pull factors that explain why people were attracted to Bedford-Stuyvesant. In this case, Bedford-Stuyvesant was attractive mostly because of its cheap rent and public transportation. In addition, it is not stated in the chart but many people may also come to Bedford-Stuyvesant because it is being gentrified. Gentrification has many effects on the neighborhood and many people favor those effects. Those people move to Bedford-Stuyvesant and gentrify the neighborhood further. There are also many other factors that can cause a person to move and settle to a different place but the ones in the chart are the most important.