06-01-2015 18:16 via slog.thestranger.com

Gentrifying While Black

Kashana Cauley writing at TPM:
The problem is that America has one official gentrification story. Gentrifiers are white, middle- to upper-middle class people who move into minority-filled neighborhoods, drive up rents by paying much more than the natives can afford, and entice expensive coffee shops and farm-to-table restaurants to move in, thereby displacing older businesses simply by existing.
This does happen. But it’s not the whole truth....
It took me a couple of ye
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