When Gentrifiers Are Black, Ctd

Freddie DeBoer asks why a feature on gentrification didn't interview any poor people:

This is a several-thousand word article on the relationship between race and socioeconomic class, and about the tensions between old and new residents and poor and rich residents of a city and a neighborhood. Yet in those thousands of words there isn't a single interview with a poor, long-term, black resident. It's a glaring omission.

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