This whole "anti-gentrification thing" strikes me as over-simplistic. I mean who built these homes in the first place and whom lived there before the current generations? Immigrant factory workers from Ireland, Poland Yugoslavia and various other places who worked in the long gone factories. Cities are about change despite what people seem to think. Neighborhoods come and go and different races and immigrant groups come and go over the years. Frankford Avenue was originally a indian trail... then a unpaved wagon road called Frauford with farmland along it and then a semi-paved road to new York with wood houses along it and then a paved road with brick houses and factories and steam train rails brought into the area to service the factories. 250+ years of history of different peoples along that road... I have mixed feelings about about gentrification as it is a part of the long and continual evolution of cities but I am more for it than against it in most cases. The government if it cared about the people it should serve would see to it that people without means would not get taxed out of the homes they live in but as well all know it works for business interests.

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