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When Housing Displacement Severs Your Connection to Home and Identity

I got priced out of my neighborhood where I grew up and now feel like a tourist in my own city.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Gentrification and housing costs create psychological displacement that goes beyond physical relocation to threaten cultural and personal identity.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Housing — why it's unaffordable and what might change?”

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