Hey, media: Those gentrifying neighborhoods had residents before the yuppies moved in

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By Ben AdlerSep 22, 2015, 2:22 pm60 pts
If you go to a gentrifying neighborhood and ask around, or just look at Census data, you will find that the neighborhood did in fact exist before it became trendy. Its population may have been lower; it certainly would have been poorer, and probably less white. But it was inhabited. And yet the media tells us…

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