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How upward mobility makes you complicit in displacement

My old neighborhood is getting gentrified and I'm part of the problem now - I have the income that signals to developers that this area is 'improving.'

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Your personal progress can inadvertently contribute to systems that harm communities like the one you came from.

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“Where Are You with Social mobility and identity shift?”

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