Previously, on There Goes the Neighborhood.

This is a phenomenon that everybody sees, everybody feels, but somehow isn't in the center of the

discussion where it needs to be. I'm, of course, talking about gentrification.

The city actually has been in what is legally known as a housing emergency for decades.

I'm not ready to sell.

I am ready to sell yet, and I need them to leave me alone.

He said, well, I came to offer you some money.

If you move by this certain amount of time, I'm going to give you $5,000.

I say, you are out of your mind you have

felt and bumped your head they will invite themselves in your home and present themselves as

your friend we live on Bobby as family we all there for each other when we built the middle

class in this country we made decisions about who was going to

benefit.

And we decided black people weren't a part of that.

When everybody gave up on the neighborhood, we didn't.

We stood in the neighborhood.

We worked it out.

And we made it the better place that everybody wants to invest into now.

There goes to the neighborhood.

There goes the neighborhood.

There goes the neighborhood.

I'm Kai Wright.

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