Displacement

It is the moral duty of the local government to maintain space for low-income residents by providing more supply of housing for new residents without taking up existing housing from current residents. Historically real estate firms without government reproach had sold previously block-busted properties to Black Americans for incredibly inflated prices and routinely offered backhanded “rent-to-own” installment plans on homes when many families could not qualify for discriminatory bank loans. No equity was offered through these plans and eventually, horrendous increases of rent yielded high eviction and turnover rates, forfeiting the money and property back into realtor hands. Today, time and time again the negative impacts associated with the gentrification process are cycles of subtly coerced block-busting, white flight, the reshaping of a community, and more destructively, the overall displacement of people. Although, displacement cannot be mentioned without acknowledging the racial and economic displacement that massacred and uprooted more than 3-dozen native tribes during the Trail of Tears & Indigenous American Removal Act. Displacement cannot be mentioned without acknowledging the Muslim bans and continuous detainment of immigrants in ICE detention camps, many of which are parents who then unlawfully lose custody of their children as the parent is deported and the child ends up in the child welfare system.