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Let me begin by saying that there are two possible effects facilitated by urban redevelopment:  one helps the neighborhood and one hurts the neighborhood.  By definition, gentrification is one of those “good intentions” types of events.  What happens, generally speaking, is that a group of citizens seizes a deteriorating neighborhood, buys its houses, fixes them up, and either resells them to the young up and comers of the city or inhabits them, settles into the community, and opens businesses in the neighborhood’s once ill-used commercial space. 
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