Don't Let The Starbucks Fool You. We're Not Gentrifying, And This Is How

12 April 2018

NJ.COM - FEATURING DAVID TROUTT

"Displacement through gentrification comes about because cities make deliberate tax policy decisions that favor certain elements over others," said David Troutt, one of the authors of the report and director of Rutger's Center for Law, Inequality and Metropolitan Equity.

"A city like Newark has to exercise that same authority to protect (residents)," he added. "This is an obligation to make sure as it plans for growth, it also plans for affordability. Otherwise people disappear.”

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Don't let the Starbucks fool you. We're not gentrifying, and this is how.