the clearing.

The gentrification of Graduate Hospital has and continues to displace the long-time Black residents due to rising housing costs and a changing cultural landscape. This has resulted in the displacement of individuals in the Black community. There seems to be an intentional decrease in the availability of affordable housing as developers build and renovate homes. The City's Longtime Ownership Occupant Program (LOOP) to keep residents in their homes was enacted in 2014 after many residents moved and were already priced out. 

 

Beyond the tangible effects of gentrification, it is important to recognize its unseen effects: the complete erosion of a support system, sense of community, and belonging. Black elders feel ignored, dismissed, and, at times, lost in this ever-changing neighborhood.

 

In the end, there seems to be no way to ensure that gentrification does not occur to the detriment of those who have called the area home for generations.