This article by Daniel Kay Hertz, a senior fellow at City Observatory, offers a different perspective on the usual gentrification narrative.
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“City Observatory, a Knight Foundation-funded urban policy think tank, found that high-poverty communities that didn’t gentrify fell deeper into poverty and lost a stunning 40 percent of their population, on average, between 1970 and 2010. If our concern is displacement, then that number ought to be a major concern.”
Read the piece: Planning Magazine Gentrification.pdf