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How to navigate gentrification within a neighborhood community

Our neighborhood has been gentrifying rapidly and our community group is split between longtime residents who are being priced out and newer residents who want to 'improve' things. The meetings have become tense and I don't know how to bridge these different experiences of the same changes.

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