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I was standing with a public housing resident last week after a meeting, talking about what might happened to her housing development after it's torn down and redeveloped. When we came on the subject of a "mixed-income" community, she seemed annoyed.
"Why is it that we always gotta say 'mixed-income'? Why can't we call it what we mean?" she asked. "It ain't about income. It's about the color of skin and learning to get along."
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I think Megan hit it on the head when she also mentioned class, and that also factors into cultural issues as well. For example, some of the problems with gentrification in Pilsen relate to certain people who buy property in the area but want nothing to do with the people who live there, who are working class and mostly Mexican and Mexican Americans.
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