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A few percentage increase in a city of 8 million results in thousands of uprooted lives at the margin. I used Bed Stuy as an example because it seems to me a marginalized community. It is surrounded by poorer and richer neighborhoods that do not have the same housing problem I have described. In some sense Bed Stuy is the "frontline" where the processes I describe converge.

Much like in war, the people on the "frontline" experience direct disturbance to their way of life, while those who live far away from the "frontline" have their lives go on as normal even if they are aware of the problems nearby.