I remember watching a predominately white city gentrify over the course of ten years. It was sad.
The people that use to live there were blue collar types and retirees. Buying my lunch there was once highly affordable.
But I was the first of a burgeoning tech hub growing in the center of the city. You go there now, and everything is upscale. The businesses I use to frequent, like this one mom and pop diner, are gone. All the old homes are gone too, replaced with track homes and McMansions.
And what happened to the original community? Most moved, but the retirees left behind are homeless and living out of their cars or at cheap hotels. I arrive at work just before daybreak, and the parking lots at hotels and supermarkets are packed with cars and trailers. The city leaves a few outhouses in these lots for the people to use.