“...To me, it looks like, okay, maybe your rich, affluent neighborhoods are getting crowded now, and maybe too expensive. And now you have a whole new generation or, you know, there’s not enough room, so you wanna expand. And…the developers... they search certain properties and certain areas and they look…and they do studies on it…and at the same time, the people there that we don’t want there when we bring in the people that’s going to support all this new building, um, we can send them into this neighborhood over here…we’re gonna take this neighborhood for us."
City-Wide Tenants Union advocate Jody Francis describes the view of gentrification from where he sits in his advocacy role, and from his personal experience. We discuss the ways toxic development practices have led to the displacement of vulnerable residents as well as how Rochester residents can work together to make improvements to their own neighborhoods and prevent the negative impacts of gentrification.