Proponents of gentrification often use some rendition of a “rising tide lifts all boats” justification when assessing the impact that gentrification has on original residents in a gentrifying area. One of the benefits that is widely accepted by proponents and opponents of gentrification is that homeowners experience an increase in property values that can easily be transferred to family wealth or cash. Yet, there is virtually no research that provides an evidence base to support this seemingly direct relationship. Through a case study of prominent historically black neighborhoods in North Nashville, we find that the process of potential home equity realization for original homeowners in a gentrifying area is complicated by a variety of factors. We theorize that, in addition to class and socioeconomic phenomena, home buying in the context of gentrification operates much like reverse or inverted “blockbusting” during the era of urban renewal. These processes involve the creation of value out of the racialization of space whereby black homeowners and residents are incentivized and often forced to leave as a precursor to predominantly white populations entering. We comment on how these findings fit into the history of discriminatory and exploitative housing practices in the United States.

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高档化的竞赛空间：“反向大片”、房屋销售和北纳什维尔的邻里改造

在评估士绅化对士绅化地区的原始居民的影响时，士绅化的支持者经常使用“涨潮掀起所有船只”的理由。中产阶级化的支持者和反对者广泛接受的好处之一是房主的财产价值增加，可以很容易地转移到家庭财富或现金中。然而，几乎没有研究提供证据基础来支持这种看似直接的关系。通过对北纳什维尔历史悠久的著名黑人社区的案例研究，我们发现中产阶级化地区的原始房主的潜在房屋净值变现过程因多种因素而变得复杂。我们的理论是，除了阶级和社会经济现象，高档化背景下的购房很像城市更新时代的反向或倒置“大片”。这些过程涉及从空间的种族化中创造价值，从而激励黑人房主和居民并经常被迫离开，作为以白人为主的人口进入的先兆。我们评论这些发现如何适应美国歧视性和剥削性住房实践的历史。