When I think about gentrification, especially rapid gentrification like this, I think about the loss of the there there, a concept first described by Gertrude Stein in Everybody’s Autobiography. Novelist Tommy Orange gives it brilliant further context: “The place where [Stein had] grown up in Oakland had changed so much, that so much development had happened there, that the there of her childhood, the there there, was gone, there was no there there anymore.”2
