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10 US Cities Where Gentrification Is Happening the Fastest

gentrificationIt has been playing out across the country — urban areas once occupied mostly by African-Americans are being reinvented with overpriced housing and businesses that welcome affluent White citizens and displace Black people who had made the neighborhoods their homes for generations. Governing, an organization that examines America’s neighborhoods, recently analyzed census tract data to determine where gentrification is taking hold the fastest. Here are the top 10.

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