URBAN DEVELOPERS
(GENTRIFICATION)

...make their money by "developing" cities for commercial business & new wealthy residents, and that means driving out & locking up "the poor." Whether it's public housing, parks & community gardens, or homeless, unemployed & retired residents, whether it's locally owned stores or anything in the way of big money making, they buy it up, arrest it, destroy or imprison it. They work with banks & the city, who also profit from more wealthy residents, tourists & shoppers coming in. Together, they undermine community relations & economies, pull out resources & drive down property values ('red-lining'), and provoke violence through "aggressive policing": harassment, brutality & profiling.