Why renters don't necessarily want their suburbs or cities to "improve", get more economically developed, have better architecture etc under the current system and how to change it.

A short thread.

The poor/landless often resent development because they receive little short term benefit e.g. the opposition of the poor to 'gentrification' of city areas. For the poor the improvements to buildings are balanced by unaffordable purchase prices and rents.

Thus you end up with the crazy situation of the poor opposing the improvement of buildings and infrastructure because they don't benefit as they are forced out. In extreme examples the poor oppose large employers entering an area and bring with them high paid employees.

The whole idea of georgism is to divorce economic development from land and rent rises.

Thus development can happen with poor people in place and thus these people can get richer. Rather than having to move away and stay poor.

Thus development doesn't lead to a wealth cluster surrounded by a poverty cluster (made up of people moving in from less developed areas and people priced out of the developing core).