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When gentrification makes your beloved neighborhood unrecognizable

I love my city but the rent keeps going up and I'm watching all my favorite places get replaced by things I can't afford, and I don't know who this place is for anymore.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

To watch a place transform beyond recognition while you still inhabit it is to experience a unique form of displacement while standing still.

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