It’s unreal to consider how the very beginning of gentrification would mimic so closely the current problems being found. It is, however, interesting to see how it’s progressed from movement into the city to movement within the city. At its genesis, it seems people from outside city limits would move into the city and raise the prices of rent and living tremendously. Now, however, it appears that this move comes from people of one area of the city into a new “up and coming neighborhood;” this is probably so that the movers will save some money, disregarding how much money the people already there will lose. In “The Birth of Gentrification,” a new resident of a gentrifying area is quoted as saying, “I like to smile at them and stop for a talk. But I don’t want to have tea with them” (Lees 19). This is a sentiment from the 1960’s; it’s sickening to think that this mentality hasn’t seemed to change. Perhaps it’s possible with proper planning to enact “brownstoning” without pushing out the current populous, but would that eradicate the tension that so obviously still exists?