Is there a way to achieve community development without letting gentrification redefine an area?
DH: The improvement of a neighborhood is great, but not at the expense of the people who live there. And when a neighborhood improves only when a privileged group moves into the neighborhood, then that’s injustice. This is happening in the Bay Area and in every major city in the country. You have people who have been asking for thirty years for a hospital and another school in their neighborhood, 15 to 20 years for a traffic light where multiple kids have been killed by cars, and they get none of that. But a whole bunch of left-leaning, middle-class white folks move in and in two weeks they get a bike lane? That’s fucked up. And that’s not to say that having a bike lane is fucked up. That is to say that you are unaware of white privilege and class privilege if you are going to excuse yourself from being a part of gentrification by saying, “But you got a bike lane now.” One of your characters in the show is an older black woman who feels that she is invisible to these young, white hipst
