Hello, my name is SeonKyung Lee. I usually go
by Seon. I’m 21 year old, and I’m from South Korea. I went to the college in California
for one year, and then I transferred to UT for this fall semester as a junior
in Youth and Community studies major. I
take this class because I wanted to know the social problems in these days and several
community services that can enhance the people’s lives and develop the community.
I want to do a counseling or family therapy in the future, and I thought this
class might be helpful to learn social problems and understand the communities
and people.
I interviewed the person graduate of UT about the personal opinion and knowledge about East Austin. She said she had never been to east Austin, but she thought a lot of families in the East Austin are low income families. She thought usually minority people are living in the east Austin, and mostly Mexican and black people are living in there.
According to the news that I saw online, most of the people considered east Austin as a dangerous place. African Americans or Hispanics were majority in east Austin, but white residents had become the majority in two of the tracts by 2010. While the number of whites living there increased by 40 percent, whites surpassed blacks as the second largest racial group. East Austin ranked no.7 for hippest community. It said East Austin is the newest hipster home base and there are a lot of Mexican eateries, coffee shops, a farmers market and food trucks, and the music venues every night. East Austin seems gaining a new reputation. East Austin is facing the gentrification. The changes in east Austin made people in trouble, who lived there for decades. Their quality of life is endangered as they struggle financially to stay there. Longtime families have to move out because they cannot pay higher property tax bills, since the area became hot property. Most of the people loved to stay but financial pressures are so strong.
I interviewed the person graduate of UT about the personal opinion and knowledge about East Austin. She said she had never been to east Austin, but she thought a lot of families in the East Austin are low income families. She thought usually minority people are living in the east Austin, and mostly Mexican and black people are living in there.
According to the news that I saw online, most of the people considered east Austin as a dangerous place. African Americans or Hispanics were majority in east Austin, but white residents had become the majority in two of the tracts by 2010. While the number of whites living there increased by 40 percent, whites surpassed blacks as the second largest racial group. East Austin ranked no.7 for hippest community. It said East Austin is the newest hipster home base and there are a lot of Mexican eateries, coffee shops, a farmers market and food trucks, and the music venues every night. East Austin seems gaining a new reputation. East Austin is facing the gentrification. The changes in east Austin made people in trouble, who lived there for decades. Their quality of life is endangered as they struggle financially to stay there. Longtime families have to move out because they cannot pay higher property tax bills, since the area became hot property. Most of the people loved to stay but financial pressures are so strong.
Seems like you are quickly learning a lot about East Austin!
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