Gentrification Often Fails to Foster Dialogue Between New White Residents

question 27

Multiple Choice

Gentrification often fails to foster dialogue between new white residents and former black residents because:

• A) racism prevents people of different races from freely speaking with one another
• B) the black families fled to the suburbs when the whites moved into their neighborhoods
• C) a social class barrier divided the two groups
• D) white families rented most of the homes to transients who did not live in the community long enough to establish relationships

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