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When gentrification forces impossible choices between housing and community stability

My landlord is selling the building and all the new apartments in this neighborhood cost eight hundred dollars more than I can afford but moving means changing my kids' schools.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Neighborhood transformation displaces existing residents while destroying the social networks that support survival.

Ideas that help explain it
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“Where Are You with Class and structural disadvantage?”

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