How To Keep That Yuppie Redevelopment Project From Taking Over Your Neighborhood

The displacement of distressed neighborhoods through reconstruction — commonly known as gentrification — is a rightly controversial topic. Here’s a woman who’s seizing control of her neighborhood’s inevitable gentrification by first harnessing the power of the process (2:35) to show how it can be used for good in her 'hood (5:10).
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The displacement of distressed neighborhoods through reconstruction — commonly known as gentrification — is a rightly controversial topic. Here’s a woman who’s seizing control of her neighborhood’s inevitable gentrification by first harnessing the power of the process (2:35) to show how it can be used for good in her 'hood (5:10).

ORIGINAL: By urban revitalization strategist and MacArthur Foundation "genius grant" fellow Majora Carter. Found on THNKRTV.
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