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Mainline contributor and author Sylvia Johnson joins Aja this week to dive into why we should really care more about gentrification. Besides the obvious problems gentrification brings — increasingly expensive rents and mortgages, higher eviction rates, displacement of lower-income communities of color, and so on — there are deep relations between gentrification, police brutality, and climate/environmental justice that are too often circumvented in the media. Using Atlanta’s history and current development stories as a prime example, Sylvia and Aja expand the conversation to where it needs to go: to include and center the two biggest existential threats to Black and Indigenous communities.
