Define 'violent dispossession.' Because what your are saying completely whitewashes the experiences of my friends and family in the medium sized city I grew up in. You could literally plot on a map neighborhoods going to hell from north to south as blacks and hispanics moved south and whites tried to stay one step ahead of them. Almost everyone I know was caught in this pattern at some point. What came first, the stagnating property values or criminals? Whatever you believe, everyone knew those things go together because you could see how the next neighborhood over is doing. You don't wait until you or your neighbor's house is burgled. You would sell and get the hell out of there before it was too late.
Violent Disposession typically means literally forced out of your home at gun point by armed men, which doesn't even happen now with most squatters, which is why we have to broaden the concept to "the crime rate is bad and I don't want to live here anymore". I'm willing to entertain that rhetoric to allow people to recognize demographic displacement, but it is a bit hyperbolic.
What came first, the stagnating property values or criminals?
The property values. This is literally what Broken Windows Policing seeks to prevent. Aesthetics can actually cause crime. It's the same reason why Civil Engineers don't build walkways that are tunnels, they create transitional spaces for crime with no escape routes for victims, and no outside visibility, which basically attracts criminals to an area. After "Pioneer" black arrived fully integrated normally, what would happen is that you would get a wave of non-Pioneers who would want to live in a black minority community in a white town, then get a third wave of blacks who wanted to live in a black community. That is typically when the crime would actually increase.
Define 'violent dispossession.' Because what your are saying completely whitewashes the experiences of my friends and family in the medium sized city I grew up in. You could literally plot on a map neighborhoods going to hell from north to south as blacks and hispanics moved south and whites tried to stay one step ahead of them. Almost everyone I know was caught in this pattern at some point. What came first, the stagnating property values or criminals? Whatever you believe, everyone knew those things go together because you could see how the next neighborhood over is doing. You don't wait until you or your neighbor's house is burgled. You would sell and get the hell out of there before it was too late.
Violent Disposession typically means literally forced out of your home at gun point by armed men, which doesn't even happen now with most squatters, which is why we have to broaden the concept to "the crime rate is bad and I don't want to live here anymore". I'm willing to entertain that rhetoric to allow people to recognize demographic displacement, but it is a bit hyperbolic.
The property values. This is literally what Broken Windows Policing seeks to prevent. Aesthetics can actually cause crime. It's the same reason why Civil Engineers don't build walkways that are tunnels, they create transitional spaces for crime with no escape routes for victims, and no outside visibility, which basically attracts criminals to an area. After "Pioneer" black arrived fully integrated normally, what would happen is that you would get a wave of non-Pioneers who would want to live in a black minority community in a white town, then get a third wave of blacks who wanted to live in a black community. That is typically when the crime would actually increase.