Gentrification plays out in so many different ways.
It doesn't matter if you are an anarchist, communist, or well intentioned.
Sometimes by moving to a city and working class neighborhood with history of white flight, you can perpetuate Gentrification and settler-colonialism in a way.
Your collective and whatever project you think benefits the community, at the end of the day makes that neighborhood more desirable to developers and gentrifiers.
Individual action is not enough to stop it, as well as performative clout chasing movements.
Creative direct action will always be a good start.
For those who open up or start a "project" in a community that is an obvious target of Gentrification, ask yourself, who is this for, and if the people who historically lived there don't make up the people in the collective or who come to the space, then you're probably a gentrifier.
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