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Almost everybody here decrying the gentrification is a white, middle class/income incomer to the area, neatly drawing a line in history where their arrival was some genuine act and after that it's all hipster yuppies ruining the place. I've been in Brixton since '93 and I came here because all my friends in London were here, I loved the place and I was skint and Brixton was easily one of the best places to live in London if you had no money. But I was hardly the only person doing the same at that time - you could say we were the advance guard, since we might have been skint when we arrived but most of us did well enough after we got here and our presence probably did a lot to reassure the later waves of Hoxtonites.
The only reason it's taken this long to really begin the gentrification of Brixton is that the council massively fucked the local economy back in the second half of the 90s and it took a decade to recover.
No part of a living city is ever static. Get over it.
Hipsters are cunts, though, obv.