Gentrification has displaced over 500,000 Black residents since 1980, erasing culture, history, and political power in cities from Watts to Washington. Once-thriving Black neighborhoods are now unrecognizable, replaced by newcomers and government subsidized undocumented immigrants, mostly from Middle and South America, while longtime residents are priced out. Revitalization without inclusion is displacement. The question is not whether cities grow, but who gets to stay and wh
