What has happened to the poor and minorities in other communities when downtown redevelopment efforts have been implemented?
They have mostly been displaced. They have not benefited economically from downtown redevelopment. In some cases a system of rent control is initiated by the developers/city for a short period of time in order to create the illusion of non-displacement. However after a period of three or four years, buildings are sold, rents increase and the area becomes gentrified as more and more people from outside the area want to invest in the relatively inexpensive properties. So after about four years or so, residents find themselves displaced from their homes looking for cheap housing somewhere else in the city. Many of the 1800 current residents of the Segundo Barrio have already moved from their apartments or homes because of fear of future displacement. Other’s will not qualify for the so called “affordable housing” that the politicians are promising them and will have to move to other parts of the city. For the majority of of the people living in the zone of future demolition zoneeven for t
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