I grew up in Cincinnati until my late 20s and before Over the Rhine was gentrified. My experience in OTR was volunteering every weekend at Washington Park. I w

I grew up in Cincinnati until my late 20s and before Over the Rhine was gentrified. My experience in OTR was volunteering every weekend at Washington Park. I would talk to the folks who frequented the park; many homeless. They had stories and weren't much different from myself. Except I had a bigger safety net, wasn't as unlucky and made different bad decisions. I remember how attendees of City Hall would walk past the homeless on their walk into the opera. It was sad. That's where I remember it all starting though. The "no loitering" laws and "no sleeping in the park" laws. OTR is better for middle class and above people. But those people who used to be in OTR didn't disappear. They're somewhere and I hope they found another place to hang out. Spike Lee's response to someone on the Gentrification in NYC is a great listen. https://soundcloud.com/daily-intelligencer/spike-lee-on-gentrification https://soundcloud.com/daily-intelligencer/spike-lee-on-gent...