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asked if he ever felt as if two Detroits might be emerging—the new Detroit, in which people can afford $1,200-a-month studio apartments and $700 bicycles, and the other Detroit, where the per capita income is about $15,000 a year. “We’ve got to make sure the people here are being lifted up from the rising tide,” Pashak said in response. The reality, though, is that the rest of Detroit is still struggling economically. And for those who lived around Capitol Park before this latest wave of redevelopment, the new Detroit has been anything but a boon.
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How can you write this and then call ppl like Pashak pawns??????!
How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood
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