Black parent, PLEASE start to put money away for your babies. 25/month until that child turns 18 is a small effort that will go alone way!!!!

I think its too late for most BP. We had like over 5 decades to establish ourselves but... poor business practices and comfort in government handouts has made us forget that its survival of the fittest. We should have AT LEAST held a monopoly over barbershops, but where is the blk barber chain like Desmonds? Every other group now rocks a fade, a hair style BP pioneered but now youll find non blks giving you a better barbering experience. And we still have parents living in the same council flat for the last 40 years. When these parents die, we bury them on our dime. What a nightmare

I simply don't know what young Black men want,I've tried talking to them to join me working in a car assembly plant in our local area which pays almost 45k per year but they love the road more,why are we hypnotised with fast money and the latest fashion?i also suffer from that from time to time buying 300 pound sneakers in my forties but i can afford it cause i don't use credit and most of my material possessions are paid off...

This was a fantastic analysis. We as blavk people will continue to fail as long as we are not united.

These areas are normally run down, with high crime. This is done on purpose, then developers come in buy the properties cheap, redevelop and sell at high profits.

Houses are unaffordable now in Hackney. Normal people cannot buy property in Hackney. The spill over from Islington unfortunately.

We as black peoples usually sleepwalking & partying… while other races are educating their children & community in finance and building up their community, then we get upset when other races come into our community and buy up property and fix it up, we also don’t do much with the areas too, so gentrification can make areas much safer too… we just love to complain but sit around doing nothing…. 🙄🙄🙄

Gentrification in it self is not bad to take advantage you have to be in the right financial position. My comments come from a Jamaican perspective. To take advantage you are correct by stating that you should be married and pull your resources to together and support your children in moving to cities where Gentrification has taken place Manchester, Birmingham, London etc. Some men decided to have multiple children with multiple women and not get married. Black women have suffered and so have their children. Black men did the same to white women. So we now have a disappearing Jamaican community because of the actions of these men who had other business to please them self. Fast forward 2024 none of these men married any of these women and most of the community are in disarray. If you don't have a family environment where you are married, proud to be from a Jamaican background and pull resources then how can take you advantage of gentrification. A lot of black men from that community have let the down they impregnated my own father being one of these men so don't think I'm have a go this community without cause. I'm not saying that these men are horrible just thoughtless, not forward thinking or seek good counsel. The majority and this is my opinion are unable to take advantage of gentrification.....

I just started working as an estate agent in NE London and I’m yet to have one black person book in a viewing. Houses that were 600k in 2011 are now being listed for 1.5mil. A lot of the people buying homes are married couples with young children who want to be close to the best schools or young adults in their 20s getting help from parents. It’s so crazy but it’s really motivated me to change the narrative for my family and future family. Great content also 🩷

Yes. Thank you. Agency and self determination is the way forward for the Black British Community. No ifs no buts.

Thank you for touching in these topics. These discussions are so needed within our community. I’ve gained great insights from this channel!

I fear its too late tbh! The separatist mental conditioning & thinking of black people has long been established and even more so in current times!! Asians made use of the times during the 60s/ 70s/ 80s to develop, build and condition the mentality and security of their future generations going forward. This has set a tone for even further future generation to hold on to as standard! Unfortunately black people have not even come off the starting blocks as a coillective!!

Like the topics you are raising. UK black communities are vulnerable to gentrification because we don't own enough property or commercial property. Gentrification only hurts if the property is sold outside a community and then people wanting to buy into the same are have to pay a premium. I agree with credit unions and pardner schemes but its often waisted on short term spending instead of supporting owning infrastructure. Credit unions have had several years of competitive dividends/interest.

Great video, and I agree with your points. I would add, that this is not just a black thing, or even just a London thing. I am white working class from Leeds, and most of my friends have had to move out of the area we were born in due to sharply increasing house prices, which ironically, are being bought by Londoners (sometimes black londoners haha), who have been 'forced' out of London over the years. I managed to stay in my area by buying young, and working consistently at my career for the long term. But as I say, most of my friends have moved further out of town to cheaper areas.

This was on my home page, don’t know how or why. Glad it was. I couldn’t agree more about everything that has been said here. Seeking to secure economic futures is key but that message about MARRYING really is the KEY. So many for instance, young women of colour CONTINUE their own mother’s legacy of having children out of wedlock and sometimes with multiple children by multiple men. These men come from similar backgrounds and very often do not want to support the child as a father, but usually not economically. So these children are born into poverty and there is a continuing cycle of poverty. I am not sure how these women fail to understand the rights they ensure for THEMSELVES and THEIR CHILDREN by getting married. Even if the father does not have many assets, in the event of divorce it makes it easier to go for maintenance (child and spousal) at the very least. It’s put less of an economic burden on the mother and may make things much easier for herself and the children.

Im from Lower Clapton born, schooled and did YTS on the council after leaving homerton house, and i gotta say, it was always on the cards that Hackney was next in line for gentrification, after Clapham and Brixton. Imagine all them mash up drums in the 80s with no roof, bricked up windows, now selling for 2 mil. Hackney was the most ghetto in London, now its the most sought after. I love your channel and the narrative btw 🙏🏽

Certainly makes areas safer if nothing else.

I think that gentrification is a good thing but what I see in London is the prices going up and there seems to be many drug addicts everywhere especially Finsbury Park. I also lived in Dalston too I really prefer Stoke Newington ,Dalston is quite dirty and always busy. I don’t think that it’s about skin colour it’s about wealth,finances and class.

Things will get better the minute we stop letting outsiders dictate our actions. We need to stop paying mad money on these expensive, luxury brands. We need to stop letting our young athletes and entertainers be convinced that they need to have partners or representatives and agents that don’t look like them. We need to stop being attracted to all this street stuff, whether that’s our boys wanting to be involved or our girls wanting to be with them. We need a system in place like the Jews have on how to build wealth but also keep it in house. Respectfully, black people set trends all around the world. This is in fashion, music, dance, lingo, sports, everything to do with pop culture. We need to benefit from that influence and be the main players. Create together but sell to everyone

This will never happen. Black families don't operate like Asian families, nor do they have the capital to do so. A lot of b.o.b are mismanaged or go bust. Maybe Africans can make it as they have similar family set ups to Asians, but Caribs are finished in the UK through IR relationships (the men date out at high rates), restrictions on new Caribs coming to tge UK, ageing pop with no generational wealth and plenty of olders who went back to the islands to live, sold UK houses and got a cheaper one in JA etc and have nothing to pass to kids. A lot of JA people born and raised in the UK have land rights in JA but can't capitalise on it due to badminded family abroad where disputes can turn deadly. I think bp have embraced individualism in the UK. Can't see it changing from me and mine tbh.

I agree with many of the points raised however 1. Local businesses don't just go bust due to people moving on, gentrification is often an intentional displacement of people & in some areas Black businesses will be forced out only to be replaced by a White version of the same thing. 2. Whilst often heralded as the ideal, Asian families are often able to pull resources due to lack of choice and autonomy i.e. it is normalised to expect to give your money to a parent or husband, to have little input in your own career choices etc. There are obviously many good things about the way they operate but I think the very restrictive way in which many of them do operate would not work for many of us

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Sadly many of our people lack vision and as such they keep missing the boat, preferring to invest in the latest this or that which loses value the moment it leaves the shop. I get your point about building together, it's the ideal, and of course it makes absolute sense. I've been a single parent out of necessity, not choice. I struggled to buy my own property while many thought i was crazy. I've raised 2 children on my own who are educated professionals in good jobs and contributing to society. According to the narrative they should be non- achievers with criminal careers. This is not an ad for single parenthood, rather I am saying life is what you make it. If u keep listening to all the negatives you'll eventually end up on the slippery slope. Life comes with challenges, careful who you listen to, look up to and aspire to be.

The number of black (African and Carribbean) home ownership isn't small in the UK although there's room for improvement. I agree on the importance of family and culture of nurturing. Family network, togetherness and support are the most important thing we and any society need to survive.

I'm from London and I live in the south part which was a ghetto area and I do admit the place was run down in the past. Today the place looks cleaner and the building has changed and everything but honestly I missed how it was before.

Everything you’ve said is spot on and it makes sense. However until BP start loving and embracing themselves by marrying each other and building generational wealth it’s not going to work. Giving your little wealth away and in most cases back into the WC then wonder why BP are still at the bottom.

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Great video Ely! Keep 'em coming. I suppose we should all be looking ahead to get into areas ahead of gentrification. I wonder what part of London is yet to be gentrified?

Good discussions bro keep up the good work 🎉

I am old enough to remember when Clapham was a majority black , low income area with mostly council flats .I don't live in the UK but I was watching the show Location location Location and was shocked at the prices of flats in Clapham!!!

I agree that gentrification can be good, overall. What's bizarre is that communites that live in rougher, rundown areas usually complain endlessly about the area they live and then when gentrification (improvement) begins, they complain that the area (which they complained about anyway) is now changing for the worse.

I love this video, but the way you were talking about Brixton and jumped from Coldharbour Lane to Leyton High Road actually made me laugh out loud!... 😅

We need a think tank for the black British community if you ask me, thats why these videos are so important! keep it up broskii

When your children are not your Gods, you have no future.

the cause for the rise of the price of housing (which is the underlying cause of gentrification) is the rising price of land. Why? Land is being speculated on, it is a high profit area for investment, from the single property owning landlord, to the corporation who own whole blocks or roads. Capital (hoarded wealth of the ruling classes) is stagnant in this current crisis and looking for places to go and the capitalists will only accept very high returns. Very little today except housing/land provides these returns. So this is really a crisis of capitalism, and we are the 'meat for the grinder' - be it our homes, businesses or families. The solution is to end capitalism, which is a backwards system which does not benefit the working class. Other forms of small capitalism, schemes or small co-ops, will not do what working class people need, we need socialism.

Everything the host has said is true.. also from my experience, us black people don’t think about the long term, we just think about taking the money and run. Because we lack financial acumen, and rely on the state. And why is it that Asian shops are selling black products 🤷🏾‍♂️

great video brotha watchin at work

I’m black Brazilian who used to lived in Brixton 20 years ago . Brixton become middle class area. I’ve moved to Chester a few years ago

I’m 42 years old now and only the last 12 months or so I’m realising how hard the black community have had it. My dad who died in 2006 his family was from Jamaica but he always told me to invest my money and buy up property. I just thought most people did this but I now see someone from his background it’s not very common which is a shame. Even his job I’ve never meet another black service engineer

@6:56 the hornsey ccu credit union was also gentrified its now called Association of British Credit Unions Ltd and ran by an ALL white team 😂😂😂😂😂

We are seeing areas like Thamesmead, Abbey Wood and Dartford where middle class black communities are being formed. But the inner city is unfortunately gone.

Very informative!

Another great video 👏🏾

You didn't even touch upon systemic racism in the context of gentrification. What kind of analysis is this?

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When you talked about white people up north coming here but having the financial help from their parents. That really opened my eyes. When I was at uni I had to get bursaries but my mum took that money from me. When I dropped out I was in overdraft debt with the bank because my mum needed the money and it took me ages to pay off when I finally got a job sadly not in the sector related to my degree. When I moved out shortly after because I knew I could not thrive in this situation she was still asking me for money. I think its a cultural thing, shes from Ghana and family there are always asking and taking money from each other. They don't learn financial sense. Its taken me a long time to learn how to save etc. In my houseshare the landlord kept the house for his children so they could come live in london and not worry about rent, most of them are in good jobs now, 2 are doctors. Says alot really. Am I bitter about it? Yes. I no longer talk to my parents but also for other reasons. I really hope things change.

I don’t think there’s anything wrong with gentrification. Local people benefit from jobs being created. If you live in a run down area and it’s quite cheap to buy it’s best to buy a property before investment comes into the area. There’s a lot we can do for our family future to change things. If you are getting child benefit try and put half of it in a FSA until they are 21

University graduates? But what community has the highest percentage of unemployed graduates? If gentrification was beneficial for black people they would have stopped it.

We need to start utilising the right to buy. This will help create generational wealth.

How do working class people in London compete to buy properties against the middle class and corporations? The house and flat prices down there amaze me. I assume people do shared ownership or other schemes the government push

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Thanks for sharing Ely, honestly challenged a lot of my assumptions on this topic. I wonder what would be th best way to manage money leaving the community, cooperative housing associations maybe?

As a white Romanian, I found this very interesting and insightful. Subscribed for sure!

Go to Harringay, well established Turkish businesses. Go to Bow, Whitechapel, Stratford - Loads of Asian establishments. Chinatown and various nail, medicine and massage businesses ran by Chinese and Vietnamese. Go to Peckham, Brixton, Lewisham, Dalston... You will find non Blk people selling blk goods. If there are any Caribbean restaurants, they are usually woefully out of supplies and never get as big as your average Turkish ran chicken and chip shop. 805 is the only real multichain competitive food business for West Africans. If Blk people werent going to get the money, then its only right more industrious people supplant them.

Brother I have to strongly disagree with when comes to criticism of black and brown men and women in this place called Great Britain 🇬🇧. Brother the fact is that the system helps the majority of other races many of those races can get business loans and in many cases they certainly don’t go through what the majority of black and brown men and women who were born and bred here have to go through, the system favours other races many of them especially in recent times have not paid anything into the system at all brother, am disrespecting what are saying am just letting you know it’s really not has simple has you taking 👂 but enough respect anyway brother yeah.

Such a good video

I think the solution is to stop spending money and acting rich: short-term thinking . Instead, save and invest to become wealthy: long-term thinking

So True Black communities in Britain are so fragmented. Its time we stop the instant gratification and time to build together wealth and assets

I think we have to look at gentrification in a much more broader historical context of who is included and excluded in certain spaces.Gentrification was initially understood as the rehabilitation of decaying and low-income housing by middle-class outsiders in central cities. However, by late 1970s a broader conceptualization of the process began to emerge, and by the early 1980s new scholarship had developed a far broader of gentrification, linking it with process of spatial, economic and social restructuring. Spaces in which gentrification is taking place serve as a site of control, dispossession and tied to historical hegemony.Therefore, gentrification is not only a class problem, but also a racial problem which acts as lever for black displacement in urban policies that are still yoked in a Euroamericanism understanding of urban spaces.The ‘white’ concept that lines urban changes in Brixton, Hackney and other predominantly black spaces reinforces the idea that economic development in such a place is only worthwhile when ‘whiteness’ occupies and changes spaces that are a descriptor for infrastructural decay and geographic surveillance. The descriptors of these places are not only intentional but also by design. Black immigrants in post-World War II enters Brixton and other areas from a place of ‘Other’. The racialization of black bodies confines them to spaces that serve and reinforce white-over-colour ascendency, both “psychic and material” . I could go further, but I'll leave it there for now.

Ely, but all the areas you mentioned here. I thought were black from the immigration era, owned by them. There for weren't the properties left the black children??? How did they become white,again. Or am I misunderstood???

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Are you alright ? You never came up with us by yourself, there’s others africans like you, that’s telling us Jamaicans, that’s been here for 75 years or more to leave the place where we live I’m going to live with them, can I ask you a question, WHO IS PAYING UOU TO SAY THIS NONSENSE?

Ps brother I agree with what your saying about black and brown men and women have to work together, however that is easier said than done many of us have been set against each other plus am going to the straight with you hear the majority of black and brown women in this place called Great Britain 🇬🇧 today that is the majority have no dammed respect for black and brown men it’s that simple brother so we are always going to fall short yeah.

Imagine being upset that ENGLISH PEOPLE are taking back what is theirs😂😂😂😂

You’re not the native community the original English were gentrified and deserve back their cities

Now you now how whitey felt when you all rocked up in the 50s