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When gentrification makes you feel like a stranger in your own neighborhood

My neighborhood has completely changed in the past five years with new developments and different families moving in and I feel like a stranger in the place I have called home for twenty years.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Home becomes unhomelike when the community that defined it transforms around you.

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Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Belonging and identity — who belongs here?”

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