Gentrification.
We need to think differently about gentrification if we want to combat it.

Spaces that are currently gentrifying have been spaces segregated by racist laws and customs and development. They have preserved these spaces as weak communities unable to mount continuous political resistance adequate to the task of liberation. We should not keep such spaces.

But we should not wash their members away, to be composed as an even more abused population, turned into the chaff of a global professional economy.

We need only do the following:
*keep the rates of change slow, so that communities have time to adjust and recompose gently
*provide mechanisms for communities to healthfully integrate new people moving in instead of being disrupted and displaced by them. Gentrification has become a battle between groups, when a respectful hybridity or mutually beneficial dialog is far preferable

This means that we do not need to "stop gentrification." We need to slow it down, and channel it into positive communal experience.

To do the latter, many simple methods are possible:

*encouraging new members of a community to network with established residents through neighborhood associations, community action groups, and civic and spiritual groups.
*making sure that economic growth benefits neighborhood people by promoting/requiring some portion of decent jobs to go to local people, and building small business capital and education for local people
*building an understanding in people that they are joining the lives of others, and that they must build respect and dialog with them. for instance, provision of incentives to frequent local small businesses and businesses that hire neighborhood people, instead of simply maintaining or recreating their habits and ignoring their actual communities.

To do the former, any array of options are viable, ranging from community organizing to more intensive housing in established areas.