Gentrification before Gentrification?.pdf

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As discussed in a later section, Pilsen has managed to stave off many attempts at redevelopment for higher income residents and uses. The threat, however, has never been so real as today. In the public perception, gentrification is already moving in at a fast pace. Residents see the daily parade of real estate
characters and fortune seekers looking for “deals;” suffer from dramatic increases in home prices and rents; fear the specter of proposed conversions in Chicago 9 looming in the horizon, the presence of cafes, businesses and residents of other ethnicities and incomes, and a City Hall ever more sympathetic to gentrification. For many, however, this environment is only a new chapter in the struggle against displacing redevelopment. The following chapters try to capture these
tensions and the accompanying unfolding conflicts and events.

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