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30 <br /> Housing is an important part of these longer term solutions. <br /> "There's two houses in my neighborhood that are half a million dollars right now. Like, <br /> and this neighborhood is all one level, maybe two or three bedrooms. And since the <br /> market is.. so it's a buyer's market, no one would ever move into my neighborhood that <br /> looks like me. They're going to constantly not look like me and be in a different class <br /> than me when they move into this neighborhood, when the neighborhood wasn't like <br /> that before." <br /> "What I've noticed is living here forever, back in the day, you can go to your neighbor <br /> and ask them for something. But the gentrification is really tearing down neighbor- <br /> hoods...tearing neighborhoods apart. Like there's probably only 4 original Black families <br /> in my neighborhood when there was usually like 20 or 30 and you can't go and borrow <br /> something or give your neighbor a ride because your neighbors don't interact with you <br /> anymore." <br /> Recommended Actions.- <br /> Community Experts recommend that any time a new development is being <br /> proposed or built, a certain number of new apartments or homes must be set <br /> aside for subsidized/affordable housing. Experts see gentrification tearing apart <br /> communities and neighborhoods being broken up because of taxes and cost <br /> of living. There needs to be a publicly accessible list of existing policies that <br /> combat the harms of gentrification. <br /> 15 <br />