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Dryheavemorning t1_j25v5q7 wrote

>“Gentrification is our number one problem,” longtime Point Breeze resident Betty Buford told Billy Penn in late September, standing with her neighbors at a Save Black Point Breeze rally. 

Anti-Gentrification here appears to just be code for maintenance of racial concentration/segregation based on the name of the organization doing the rally.

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Unfamiliar_Word t1_j27075d wrote

I work in a job writing grant applications. I use the term, "community," an awful lot and that has begun to make me wonder if it's just a polite way of saying, "keep the wrong kind of people out," in a way that hurts the city at large more than any given neighborhood could ever suffer.

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