What is lost when family-owned businesses and the elders playing dominoes on the corner get pushed out by high rents and chain stores
Antonio Vargas was 21 when his entire block in Dallas was sold to a real estate developer. His childhood home was torn down to make space for a luxury apartment complex with units that cost between $1,450 and $1,900 a month – 300% more than the rents some former residents had been paying.
Vargas was invited to the complex’s grand opening in February to bartend for the event – the realty group approached Vargas’s workplace to invite locals without realizing Vargas had once lived there – and so Vargas came with several of his friends, most of them Latino.
Continue reading...source https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2021/sep/11/dallas-texas-oak-cliff-gentrification
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