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4 possible approaches to curb urban displacement

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“The displacement of low-income residents in areas with burgeoning real estate values is commonly referred to as gentrification – a word that frequently evokes tension (often racial) and eye-rolls from some. Income-level, however, is a big part of the displacement equation, and though there has been a historic bias ensuring African-Americans have systemically been denied the economic opportunities that lead to a once-thriving middle-class, generally being among the working poor in any given place when it’s become a commodity frequently feels, and often equates economically, like life on thinner ice.”

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