Volunteering/helping has always been my passion and on that same street, I’ve always been knowledge hungry about housing, specifically affordable housing. After reading “How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood,” I fed some of that hunger for knowledge and learned to no one’s surprise that gentrification isn’t just an American thing and yet its concept is as American as apple pie. Running cities like corporations were short-sighted and things won’t ever get better unless we build communities and not properties. It is easier to gather people than it is to build a community. The modern American city has a lot of potential to prosper but it has to include the community in its redevelopment plans.

“Change is investable but it doesn’t have to be miserable for low/middle class people.”