“No matter how you look at it, it’s gentrification,' said a speaker at Saturday's rally who'd been evicted. 'They’re not going into the rich east-side neighborhoods and tearing them up.”
Valencia’s old house is empty now, one of the organizers told The Salt Lake Tribune, along with a handful of adjacent homes. They’ve been that way since March — when Valencia, his kids and their neighbors were forced to leave — standing vacant until they can be leveled and“It’s just happening mostly on this side of town, mostly to the Hispanic neighborhoods, you know, and it is gentrification,” said Tina Balderrama, another speaker, who was. “No matter how you look at it, it’s gentrification.
After being evicted from her home last April, she said she couldn’t find a new place to live, despite never missing rent and having great references. According to her, there are simply no affordable places left in the city.
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