Real Cost of Trendy

Today we visited an area that been experiencing gentrification for about 20 years. Along the majestic Princes Avenue of the Toxteth area of Liverpool, people whose beautifully built homes over 100 years ago that once created thriving neighborhoods and buildings of merchants catering to the Black and minority ethnic communities are encouraged to sell their aging infrastructure in order to create new and trendy areas that will bring in new money, new resources and ultimately new people. Those who choose not to sell have been systematically forced out by removing community development centers and other institutions that instill, encourage and nurture responsibility for the good of all.

We've been asked to think about the price of new and trendy. To do this, one must factor in social cost too.