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Gentrification! Who, me?

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[Personal insight into the PBS airing of COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION (Episode 2: The Price of Renewal)] Largely immigrant community members – with the help of philanthropist Sol Price – achieved significant revitalization of the diverse San Diego inner city neighborhood of City Heights, despite all odds. —KVIE I moved from my newly developed, middle-class, two story, white-stucco walled/terra cotta tile roofed neighborhood in Roseville, CA to my present 1950s developed, mostly lower-class, single story, multi-color sided/mineral shingle roofed neighborhood in Hagginwood, CA to practice gentrification . I saw an opportunity to get in on something "at the ground floor" and ride its probable profit train right to the top. I didn't know that what I was doing was call gentrification and, being a long-time practicing capitalist, wouldn't have really cared if I did know. I had a goal in mind and it didn't include anyone that wasn't of a like-mind. Three things have ha