Add "gentrification" to the list of things that are visiting the American mainstream after decades incubating in America's marginalized communities, alongside t

Add "gentrification" to the list of things that are visiting the American mainstream after decades incubating in America's marginalized communities, alongside things like addiction and broken social service processes (hello, unemployment and insurance exchange websites). If we'd been better about crack/cocaine, opioids wouldn't have hit so hard. If UI benefits weren't designed to be difficult to acquire, the ongoing problems states are having distributing them in this crisis wouldn't have happened. Right now, people living in small towns that are being effected by an influx of monied transplants have a roadmap of how this process works. If they so wish, they can disrupt it, and insist that, as new wealth pours into their area, a substantial portion of it is put towards improving the area for current residents, and towards securing their socioeconomic right to remain there. Sometimes that means telling rich people no and foregoing a short-term pretty penny, and being ready when they come after you for denying them. But that's much easier than watching your community disperse to parts unknown while yuppies live it up in your childhood home-cum-gutted minimalist smart bohemabode. Will they heed the warning?