I was born and grew up in Brooklyn. My family is still there. My dad said that the banks are bowing to the investment companies and are denying loans to individuals looking for homes. They only want to sell to certain people at the highest price. Basically redlining. My former high school teacher told me that her block association got an injunction to prevent a developer from turning one of our libraries into condos. Brooklyn is a very special place. That's why we are all so proud of being from there. It's hard to explain why. You have to be from Brooklyn to really understand. I am urging all of my family members not to sell their homes.

I'm a white woman who's moved almost every year of my life since birth. As a senior citizen, I have continued moving almost every year. But I have NEVER moved into a new community and tried to make it what I thought it should be instead of growing into that community. Maybe because I've moved around so much and maybe it's because I wasn't raised to feel privileged over others. I love all cultures and strive to learn from and enjoy them. I feel it's so wrong on every level for anyone to move into a community and try to take it over. Thank you for this segment. Such an eye opener. I'm so angry right now, though. I have shared this podcast on FB. This country needs all the education we can get.

I am a 73 year old woman, raised in lower Manhattan; moved to Brooklyn when I was 21. Fell in love with Brooklyn - rode my bike in Dumbo when it was still empty factories and all over that area ; luxuriated in the free spirited, artistic, somewhat bohemian culture of Brooklyn. I started out living in a dark apartment on Henry Street, but still loved Brooklyn. Met my husband on Orange Street in Brooklyn Heights. When we married we moved to the Ex-Lax Factory Building in Boerum Hill, which at the time was zoned as an industrial area. Grew to love Boerum Hill where we participated in a wonderful community garden. Then boom - the owner of the community garden land told all of us to leave - he built 5 town houses on the land. Then boom again - Mayor Bloomberg rezoned the area of Downtown Brooklyn and Boerum Hill to be a Professional Business and Hospitality Area. Real Estate Taxes increased by multiple digits; hugely tall skyscraper apartment buildings were erected all over Fulton Street, the area near BAM, parts of Downtown. We lived with very depressing construction sites for years - Holiday Inn and another Hotel were built near Nevins Street - Ashland Place Skyscraper obliterated the view of the Clock on the Clock tower Building. Barclay Center was built. My husband died 10 years ago - for the next 10 years I struggled to pay the maintenance on the coop in the Ex-Lax Building. When my husband & I first moved there in 1996, the building housed a lot of artists, dancers, "regular" people. Now many of the Tenants are wealthy enough to own second homes upstate or on Long Island. I finally, just this year, had to move out of Brooklyn, because as a widowed white woman who always worked for non-profit arts organizations, like The Asia Society or The Museum at FIT, I could no longer afford to live in Brooklyn. My heart is broken. I miss my favorite Bodega; I miss the big Salvation Army store on Atlantic Avenue with the most wonderful workers there. I long to be living back in Boerum Hill. So it is not just whites moving out blacks; it is also wealthier whites moving out the white middle class. And it is the City Government rezoning parts or sections of the outer boroughs to bring in more tax revenue. Thank you for this excellent series which has helped me understand the causes for the bitter pain I feel to not be living any longer in my beloved Borough of Brooklyn!!! Take the A Train!!!

Gentrification is just another word for Colonization

Love this segment hope you let Roy do this as long as he wants

Excellent segment. I grew up in Bed Stuy when it wasn't popular. I recently visited my area and it's unrecognizable. The culture is certainly disappearing. I moved to Fort Greene 20 years ago and it's happening again unfortunately. It would be great if we could all co-exist and celebrate our differences and cultures.

This is an excellent conversation about gentrification. I posted it on my Facebook page and shared it with a senator in Florida. Thank you, very educational.

I just learned something new listening to this Podcast. I thought Bodegas were little restaurants that made ethnic foods. I didn't realize they served as neighborhood grocery stores. I did know that chain grocery stores in neighborhoods where many of the residents get food stamps are much more expensive than neighborhoods where their residents don't get food stamps. (Sort of like overcharging patients with Medicare & Medicaid vs Private health insurance.) The tenement housing in Bedford-Stuyvesant was originally built to house returning WWII Vets & their families. All you had to do was put your name on the list for housing & as more of a need was shown, more housing was built. That's how my Parents got their 1st apt. When our family expanded, we moved to a larger apt in the Boulevard tenement houses. Later, my Great Uncle, who was an architect & contractor, built 2 story brownstones (catty-corner to our tenement house), & we moved in there. We moved within the same neighborhood, just across the street. AND, everyone knew everyone, we were a real community that included all races, religions, cultures, etc. That, in itself, was different in BKLYN because when the 1st settlers came to NYC, they had little areas of their own... Little Italy, Chinatown, Jewish areas, etc., but their children moved & spread out from those areas & established diversified communities. Personally, I like living in a more diversified community. Unfortunately, however, the attitudes of those community members have changed since I was young, & living in BKLYN. We were taught that we NEVER had to agree with anyone, but we ALWAYS had to respect everyone. Other peoples' values & views were held as strongly as we held ours, & even if we didn't follow the same norms, we must always hold dear their importance to each of us. Mutual Respect, oh how I miss Mutual Respect.

I am from Chicago. I'm a realtor. This is such a great segment here. Because this is happening all over the world especially in the larger Urban cities. They just said that they were going to turn land that used to be Urban housing into a ball field. Now first they were going to put housing there affordable housing now the city hall has said no we're going to turn it into a field to play ball. This is happening everywhere and it's terrible too. We need to hold the government accountable. Another problem that I'm having here in Chicago is condos not taking FHA buyers. It's terrible out here for black people and low income people who can't afford to purchase them a house. It is terrible out here. Affordable housing here in Chicago should be in the range of $125 to maybe $250,000 to purchase a house. To me that's affordable housing in this city but we hardly have anything like that here. And all of the the land that they took public housing they're putting up other things on the lots. It's terrible!

The BEST Beyond the Scenes EVER! From the colony of Puerto Rico, where it's occuring at lightening speed while pockets of communities resist. Just superb content.

My ancestry on my moms side goes all the way back to those 1st dastardly Englishmen to arrive at the islands of NYC w/the 1st Dutch Settlers in the late 1500's. Then on my dad's side, it's literally the complete opposite; Lakota Sioux, who go back close to 20K years. My point is that I've got real clout as a Brooklynite, & I've also been homeless now since the beginning of the pandemic; almost 3 years. I'm disabled & the pandemic destroyed my delicate living situation & now I'm fairly sure I'll never get into another apartment again, despite the NY State Constitution defining housing as a basic right for New Yorkers. I live out of a storage locker. Gentrification is a circular plague, that's happened in NYC multiple times now. 1st NYC becomes uncool, & then all the rich white people flee to the suburbs. During NYC's 1st exodus in the 1800's, the rich folk just went off & built other towns. Next, work becomes harder to find in the city & a lot of people lose the jobs they had catering to the rich white folks, but eventually something amazing happens & you start to see a large population of artists (actors/musicians/painters, writers, etc) living in the city, along side highly skilled trades people, and of course the native population of the city that was always too poor to abandon it. Now, with all those boring rich white ppl gone, & w/the city full of artists & real people, they start throwing some seriously epic parties, & then they build some clubs to keep the party going & make a few bucks, & then companies are formed to exploit the environment & create entertainment for profit; built on the backs of all those talented people & workers that are grounded in love, family, & fun. Then suddenly everyone wants to live like that, & people start moving back to the city. This has happened before, in 3 distinct major periods over NYC's short history, the most recent, starting in the late 1990's, & it will keep happening until we finally elect some politicians that will do something about the housing shortage, & ban Airbnb because they have made the situation much worse. The city also got rid of EVERY SINGLE tenement building, so now younger & older single men, who are often vilified in society but kept around to do all the labor for everyone, literally have nowhere to live. Nothing will every change unless drastic action is taken, & it's not just Brooklyn. The rich eat the poor in this country.

I genuinely love Beyond the Scenes. Please never go away!

Love this conversation. Jordana hit an interesting nail: while gentrification isn’t necessarily a race (compare to Manayunk, PA, and many first tier suburbs throughout the country) it is an economic issue. The race issue is within the economic issue, losing financial footing due to multiple systemic dynamics, 12% loss in housing is enormous. Involvement in planning is vital and those who’ve been busy with other issues haven’t learned city nor financial planning, and ending up reacting rather than acting forward. People are distracted or delayed instead of growing and evolving and thinking forward.

I deeply hope Brooklyn doesnt get the Atlanta issue. We have gentrification in waves every 10 years. The affluent move into our neighborhoods, push the poor and the culture out, then get bored and abandon the neighborhood for another, dropping the housing prices, that the low income move back into. Over and over and over. I hope something can be done for other cities cause this cycle is just a fact of life in Atlanta.

Has this segment of the Daily Show been nominated for an Emmy? Not that it needs that nod. This show and the team are doing the work and is appreciated. Thank you!

Such a great segment. I grew up in Brooklyn. I see the increase gentrification every time I visit. It’s really sad to see this happening

Just walking up and down Flatbush Ave is a trip been in Flatbush for 35 years, born and raised in Harlem... I'm in tears

i love this so much. im thinking it's a lead generation magnet for the main show but it can't be pulling all that much of a profit for a mass audience. how insightful and easy to absorb is this segment. really makes me feel like TDS cares about actually educating VS cracking jokes/rolling their eyes at the news. thanks you guys

I can understand your sadness. I am poor, an ex-convict, living in Phoenix, so I literally have no relevance, but I would really dedicate time and effort if something I would do could help. Brooklyn the name has a flavor that comes from the community in the streets, man. Jordana, I really admire you for not selling and seeing that guy Tommy makes me want to live there. 😉😍😘 I totally understand the enticement of the money, but at a certain point, you just want to keep your home. Too bad the neighborhood went out from underneath him. This is a great piece, you guys. 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Thank you for this show. I love the insight it provides. (Not just this episode, all of the episodes.) Roy is the perfect host. Keep doing what you are doing.

This was a very valuable podcast although not everyone is black or white and not everyone is rich or poor. But everyone needs to hear this because everyone lives in a community and everyone needs to be on board for the sake of community.

Let’s be clear, the young man in the Bronx is NOT in a food desert. That is my neighborhood. There are supermarkets. If you google grocery stores, you’ll get all the markets. If you google supermarkets, you’ll get the supermarkets in walking distance. HE SHOULD’VE ASKED HIS NEIGHBORS

I made some decisions when I was first starting to work. I chose to never own a personal vehicle, & I chose to be a renter not a buyer. These turned out to be my best choices. I either rode a bus, bike, or train. I also joined an advocacy group called Tennants Together.

Am so happy that this discussion is going on. Am a victim of harassment every day. Phone calls and visits from people ever day.

I’m so happy to see the topic of this podcast! 👏🏽

Local governments are a major culprit in awarding incentives to developers to build basically non-affordable housing in black & brown communities. Gentrification gets a lot of assistance in displacing indigenous families and the people buying these properties are mostly higher income whites with a sprinkling of POC. These newcomers often demonstrate no interest whatsoever in the never-ending or already existing issues in the community unless it directly impacts them. In a working-class area, grassroots organizations have a limited number of volunteers who are constantly organizing and working on EVERY ISSUE in these communities. They need to be better funded, educated and supported on how to navigate governmental entities to help them protect what little parts of their community they still own!

Roy! You’re doing a really great job. Keep these segments coming!

This production captures the essence of The Daily Show! Great job addressing a real issue in a meaningful and educationally solid manner. Thanks! I feel I am a better person for watching. Give them a raise!

I love me some Ron. He is amazing this is a great subject to explore and you guys did it lovely. 🎉 I’m from the BX and I understand 100% what the feeling is like not to want my neighborhood to change that much. Thank you all

Excellent I am from Queens but have lots of friends in Brooklyn, my church is in Brooklyn. This is totally true what’s going on, a friend recently posted Facebook “ he hates the skyline in Brooklyn now it’s so different.

What a great discussion! A lot of this would translate in any community. Thank you so much for this. 💖

Thank you speaking about this! They did the same to Jersey City and Hoboken

Ron and Jordana this is such great content! Wonderful guest for gentrification which is definitely happening on a national scale! Applauding and binge watching! ♥️

My Sicilian Grandparents bought homes in Brooklyn, 1930's to 1960's. my Aunt, my grandmother's sister lived in Brooklyn until she and her husband died, they raised my father. Crazy that people are being pushed out now.

I grew up in Philly, our row block had a different 1st gen immigrant family in every house, and growing up playing with all their children and then being invited in for sleep overs or dinner I got to learn by the age of 5 about Haitian food, Puerto Rican music, The many different Indian beliefs, a down south country family that moved from trailer in tenn to our block, Italians, Greeks, I mean my Dad taught me early on when I watched him work on cars with the dads on the block or work on computers for families on the block that there was no color and that it was important to be respectful when entering their homes. When I moved to NYC I lived in a shoebox in Manhattan with no toilet or shower I interned at a big dance studio and used their bathroom and shower. But I always found myself ending up sleeping at a friends house in Brooklyn. This was 2006. I FELL IN LOVE WITH BROOKLYN! It reminded me SO much of growing up in Philly with block parties on a different block every summer, sitting on the stoop just talking to people that walk by. The bodega owners knowing every person by name and knowing how you want your cheesesteak before you take a second step in that deli.. THIS IS A WAY OF LIFE!!

I moved to Brooklyn in 1980 (from Florida). I moved in in the middle of the night and when I woke up in the morning I realized I was the only white person in town! For the first time in my life I was the minority! I loved it!

I’m a white woman who ,after a divorce, came back home with my 3kids and moved into a Cape Verdian housing project. Bay Village- and it WAS a VILLAGE ! Sounds like a description of Brooklyn- we all knew each other , babysat each other’s kids and were there for each other no matter what. I’ll miss those 14 years of the 60’s/ 70’s until I’m gone. I married a Cape Verdean man (41 years) and we bought a house. I still wish we could have stayed. I felt this podcast to the bone. No other neighborhood could be the same. There are so many problems that need concrete solutions- but we need more than ideas. Too many wrongs. Let’s make it right !

Being Native American, we can relate to our African American community. On our "Reservations", where we were placed. We cannot "own" a particular parcel of land on these Reservations by the Government, we can only apply for a "Home site lease". We don't have many options for building a permanent home on these leases.

I'm really glad to know that this isn't just happening in one part of the US. My mother down in Florida is having people left and right calling, texting, and coming by trying to get her to sell her house. In a way, it's a little scary. My brother and I have even gotten calls and texts, like wth

Excellent! I'm from Detroit . Gentrification is everywhere.. Buying up property on the riverfront.. pushing those homeowners to the suburbs or deeper in the city. Housing that regular folks can no longer afford. Great episode

As a Brooklynite who's down the street from Ron I'm deeply moved by how the housing conditions like many community issues here are now Vouge. Prime time -Daily Show!!

The irony is that artists and musicians are often the leading edge of gentrification

Love Shiffman & Jordana so much! What an amazing podcast.

I wasnt born in Brooklyn but I lived there for 10 years and had to move a little over two years ago. I am still fighting homesickness. Brooklyn is THE best boro. The sense of community was a big factor, on top of the inclusivity of people of color. Im sorry this is happening to the natives of Brooklyn. I miss bodegas sooooo much, and the neighbors that would do cookouts, the tenants just hangin around instead of being cooped up in their apts. You don’t get that in Boston.

This is one of the most insightful (topics) discussions based on the subject of "sense of community", focused on the fact that members matter as a group. Building a sense of community is the only way forward - social connection is key to a community's successful growth and durability.

Love this show!!! People need a place to live! It shouldn’t be like this!

Excellent discussion, Roy!!! You’re obviously much more than a “pretty face” 😅 this scenario applies to communities everywhere across the country!!!!! Please, more talk like this on social media!!!! Mahalo nui loa 🙏🏾😑😮☮️

This is so informative and interesting! Thank you so much . This is the first time I have watched this segment! It is fantastic! I live in Hawai’i and the “gentrification” of our whole state has been happening since the 1800’s! Hawaiians can’t afford to live on their own islands. The same thing has happened in Santa Fe, New Mexico where I used to live before moving to Hawai’i. Native Spanish and Pueblo Indian locals have been pushed out and are vilified by new comers who have no knowledge or respect for the local culture. It is a universal issue ! People who don’t respect the local culture and think they are entitled to move anywhere they can afford and have the right to impose their “culture” onto their new home. Great analysis of the overall issues that face all our communities! Thank You / Mahalo!

Thank you for this “Behind the Scenes”!!

Well done. I am in San Jose, CA. I feel like we got growth but the culture stayed in tact, for the most part. But the cost of living is outrageous.

Loved this topic and it is very close to my heart. If you get an opportunity look into what happened to the congregational home for the aged in Brooklyn, NY on Linden boulevard. Was once on the list of historic places and then torn down for the tallest luxury high rise in the middle of Brooklyn, NY.

Such a great discussion. Thank you for talking about this topic!

Great conversation.. this is happening all over the US.

I’m so sad to hear this about my hometown. While I moved away decades ago, I will ALWAYS be a “Brooklyn Girl”. It is my dream to go back and make it home again someday. I loved growing up there and all that I experienced living in the borough. Please, please Brooklyn don’t ever change.

I'm flabbergasted at the guy at 12:43 that is absolutely CLUELESS to the fact that everything he asked for was right there.

It's remarkable how people like an established neighborhood. these people move in regenterfy the neighborhood. They destroyed the very thing they liked in the first place ,then wonder what happened. It's a destruction that can never be re-established. New York has lost its soul. I moved out of state because of it. It's easier to be an outsider, when Iam from outside. regentrification is just another word for segregation. I still remember white flight in the late 60s. How we who stayed suffered I substandard living conditions.

17:25 I did some work for a property developer and I always thought that I should have that tattooed on my forehead. They, sincerely, think they're just smarter than the ex-homeowners and are helping with the housing deficit. (as if selling a house for 3x what they paid for was of any help) Trying to explain that they're the problem doesn't, they can't see it.

Generations that been in Brooklyn can’t continue because of the gentrification

Fantastic and important conversation. Thank you!

Thank you for this, I learned a lot.

THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR HAVING THESE CONVERSATIONS! This is so important ♥

I'm a white 72 year old.I grew up in a lower middle class neighborhood. My parents purchased a 4200 sq foot house in 1959 for $9,000 and sold it in 1968 for $14,000. Our home is now valued at $1,600,000. There is no way we could afford that house if we wanted it today.

Yup! We always had block parties!!!! We had the pizza place on our block and a Chinese food place, my Mom was the manager of the laundry matt!!! All of that is gone!!

Please keep in mind how much money it takes to update homes and neighborhoods. Those of us who remain want quality neighborhoods as much as our new neighbors. It is difficult to gain these funds for upkeep. And the metrics to qualify for “affordable housing” in NYC have been OFF forever!! And in 2022, it is even WORSE. Many will jump at a huge check, but not all.

Ron stated it well. The right to housing shouldn’t be regarded as a commodity or a means to wealth creation as it destroys the dreams of future generations. Maslow's hierarchy of needs we learn of in college doesn’t explore the predatory nature of man against man in his quest to achieve, conquer and dominate.

No one from Brooklyn talks with Brooklyn ease anymore either, I miss that

Drink a shot everytime she says "rabbit hole" 😆🥃

My question is, once black/poor people get pushed out of their neighborhoods by rich people, where do they go, considering they’re broke?

I've always wondered how they hated us moving into their communities, even calling it white flight, and they will move into our neighborhoods that is supposedly so high in crime. Seems to me they would continue doing what they've always done move themselves where they feel we wouldn't want to be.

This is happening where I live. TONS of biotech moving in; streets being paved, fancy corporate retail/ mall built. Planters/ landscaping on medians etc. Anticipating the need to move like I did 11 years ago and then the year after all from gentrification. Who tf are all these people with money?

This is an excellent discussion and very educational. I have lived in a diverse townhome comminity for years and am an introvert, so I don't get out and mingle much, unlike my extrovert husband. Especially since COVID because I'm home more, I have begun to recognize the culture we have developed here in the townhomes. While we don't have block-parties or anything like that, there is a sense of belonging and looking out for each other, which I find comforting.

Great show, very educational, thanks 🫡

This is an excellent conversation about gentrification 👏👏👀👀👍👍

Give them a raise

Yes this is going on in my entire neighborhood what’s so scary now is they are helping certain people not others buy houses and the richer folks call you everyday asking to buy your house and it’s makes me so mad because I have no sign telling anybody my house is for sale! Now the city comes and fines things saying you need to fix things and to me it cost a lot of money to keep correcting things so I guess they are going to try to break us and force us out !

Mmmm...I recently had to move after 17yrs of PURE BLISS...A 2 bedroom apt in a Brownstone in Bedstuy...My owner sold to the highest bidder...It's true the tale,tale signs of the MOVES that are happening..I'd love to actually speak to this more...🤨

I am 65, a retired Educator, and someone who never had the means to buy a home- as I raised a family of 3 children.... Having a home or even FAIR HOUSING is a far-fetched impossible dream.

Sadly it’s happening in my area. Worcester Ma Boston is bleeding into worcester and just pushing us all out and we can’t afford it here anymore and I’ve lived here since I was 3 months old. It’s heartbreaking .

Trevor The daily show I’m sad that you’re leaving the show.This topic is very emotional but right on point I love everybody on panel speaking the truth that’s one thing about the daily show your speak the truth .💯💯💯✌🏾☝🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾.

If public housing residents would keep up where they live, it would make it more attractive. What people don't own, they don't protect.

The gentrification in Fort Greene was horrible for the public school system in Brooklyn, I went thru this with my child. Bad news.

Thanks for having Ron and addressing the dynamics of neighborhood with Jordana, highlighting the issue of Neighborhood as a basic need and human right.

I looked at an apartment in Bed-Stuy. Getting off the train and walking to the place, it was clear I wasn’t welcome in that neighborhood. I understand the frustration and the injustice of gentrification, but I am not the enemy. I’m just trying to get by just like everyone else. I want to be part of the solution.

Local building owners that bought decades ago, shouldn’t charge “market price” for their apartments when they don’t need the higher rents. At the same time blaming the developers for all the local inflation. If you spend millions to build a new apartment building,fine charge $3000 for a studio. If you inherited a building that cost $20-$30K back in the 1970’s and didn’t put a dime into improving it,you’re the greedy problem.

I'm originally from Astoria Queens, this happened to us. We were building a better community and before anybody realized it everyone who rented was priced out. Families that lived there for generations were pushed out. The people that moved in are awful. Spoiled brats who looked down on us. It was disgusting.

Very educational and informative. Thank you!

Wow! I so loved this podcast, it was so enlightening. I

Thanks Jordonna and Ron. I really enjoyed learning what can be done to improve this situation.

They’re 100% About all of this. Everybody has a right to a house. A house is more than the house it’s the community

I went to P.S.115 also down the street the other way, we walked everywhere and our school was a mix of different races and that's important!!!! Even the feeling in Brooklyn is different and I confess I couldn't take it, I live in Florida now and hate it!!! I want to go back to Brooklyn, N.Y. and I want it to be like it was in the 90's

Great discussion! I love the topic and learnt so much from this discussion. In the future I would love to see a so-called Hispanic from these communities involved in the discussion.

Great stuff. Thank you for this podcast.

People on the whole do not do well without some sort of shelter. It's not just a right; it's a need.

No more block parties, no more opening the fire pump during the summer and playing on the street, no more Sunday BBQs in front of the brickstone or the backyatds, no more bodegas . Instead we have a dead soulless neighborhoods trying to imitate the originality of the old hoods and ending up looking like clones of themselves

Jordana, totally agree regarding the neighborhood name change. Name changing is intentionally to scrub the culture. Personally, I hate it!

I'm a white Jewish flatbush residet. I wave been living here since it was a primarily Secular Jewish neighborhood. In the last 30 years, both West Indian Black people and orthodox Jews have replaced the secular Jews in most of Flatbush and recently, white non new Yorkers have been moving into majority West Indian neighborhoods like where I live. Now I'm viewed as a gentrifier even though I have lived here longet than those I'm supposedly pushing out.

Thank you guys for the education.✌❤

I'm From Brooklyn.. Born in S.I., lived in all 5 boroughs... Now in the Bronx.. I 💘 🗽

He moves into a "food desert" without knowing it. Obviously a major shock to his system.

Real talk thank you 👍👍