We all grew up, attended public schools here.

Our families are here, and to have entities to come in and destroy, essentially destroy our communities,

a sick name.

This neighborhood has, you know, just a long history of disinvestment.

Now that we're seeing investment coming in, we want to be able to

take advantage of those investments, right? We want a home court advantage. To me, gentrification is a

polite word for white people coming in. Unfortunately, that's just how property values increase.

People pull up and say, why did you buy here? This is a black neighborhood.

You're not black.

You know, and it's sort of, let's go get.

Let's talk about that. I hear where you're coming from, and this is who we are. This is why we're here. I don't want to live on an all-black neighborhood. I don't want to live in an all-white or all-span. I want a rainbow culture of people. We'll bring everybody in here.

Los Angeles is changing at a very fast rate,

and that rate is almost blindsiding some of the African-American communities

that have been here for an extremely long time.

There goes the neighborhood.

There goes the neighborhood. There goes the neighborhood. There goes the neighborhood.

There goes the neighborhood.

Recently, KCRW reporter Anna Scott interviewed a guy who lends money to real estate investors.

His name is Jerry Duccott.

She asked him for his advice on L.A.'s real estate market. Here's what

he said. You should be buying in Englewood. I was surprised at first. Certain L.A. neighborhoods

come up over and over again in conversations about gentrification. Highland Park, Echo Park,

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