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When gentrification changes your longtime neighborhood

I have lived on this street for thirty-two years and they are tearing down all the old houses to build McMansions and I feel like I am losing my home even though I am still here.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The grief of watching a familiar landscape transform challenges our understanding of what makes a place truly home.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Neighborhood and place-based belonging?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.