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The Daily Show: Ears Edition

The Cost of Gentrification in Brooklyn - Beyond the Scenes

The Daily Show: Ears Edition

Comedy Central

News, Daily News, Comedy

4.214.2K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2022

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

The number of white Brooklyn residents has increased over the years while Black residents have been displaced. Host Roy Wood Jr. sits down with Daily Show segment producer, Jordana Hemingway and urban planner and Pratt Institute professor, Ronald Shiffman to discuss how gentrification directly impacts the displacement of people and culture, the relationship between gentrification and policing, and how people moving into Brooklyn neighborhoods can be part of responsible change.  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

You're listening to Comedy Central.

0:05.2

What up, it's Roy Wood Jr. Next, you're about to hear a special presentation of the

0:10.2

Daily Show podcast that I host called Beyond the Scenes. Now, all it is, it's very simple.

0:16.0

If it's a topic that's already been on the Daily Show, we talk about it again and we

0:20.6

go even deeper on the topic and, you know, see where we are now on the issue, get deeper

0:25.7

into the origins of the problem. When we do that with Daily Show producers, writers,

0:29.8

correspondents and expert guests who know a hell of a lot more about it than us to help

0:35.4

us break it down. Have a listen.

0:44.6

Hey, welcome to Beyond the Scenes. The podcast that goes deep into segments and topics that

0:49.5

originally aired on the Daily Show with Trevor Miller. This is what you got to think

0:53.2

of this podcast is. All right. You got Apple Pie. Everybody love Apple Pie, right? There's

0:57.1

more. Chris, be Apple Pie. It's good by itself. This podcast is the all a mode. You get that

1:03.6

extra scoop of ice cream on that Apple Pie and it take it to the next level, baby. Listen,

1:08.9

now we're going to be talking about a recent segment on the show about gentrification,

1:13.4

specifically in Brooklyn and how the people, landscape and culture of places like that

1:18.5

have changed over the years. Give it a clip. According to the latest census, the white population

1:25.1

is decreasing nationwide. For the first time, the white population in the United States

1:30.9

has declined. But there's one place their numbers are up almost 9%. Brooklyn. This wealthy white

1:37.5

migration has led to increases in rent, cost of living and requests to speak to the manager.

1:43.2

So I followed a trail of succulents and less Anderson DVDs deep into the din of gentrifying Brooklyn,

1:49.2

where I sat down with Tommy Howell. The white population is going up almost 9%, the black

1:55.5

population is going down almost 9%. Would it be safe to say that that's how they're showing

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