(i'd like to say decolonize the neighborhood but it's a done deal.)

 Anti-displacement fights are interesting because of the revolutionary implications of what’s really an incredibly modest demand. When you’re fighting against displacement, what you’re saying is, “Let me keep living in substandard housing. Let me keep sending my kids to underfunded schools. Let me keep paying exorbitant rent to an absentee landlord. Just don’t raise that rent to three times what I could possibly pay. Forget about improving or empowering my disinvested community, I just want my community to not be obliterated.”

And yet, and yet, in gentrifying cities, when people make this incredibly small demand, they find themselves fighting the most powerful institutions in our society: elite universities, global corporations, unified city governments, the police. All of these institutions come together because this modest demand poses such a threat to the entire system of private property and racial capitalism if it were actually going to be fulfilled. And as you say, that edge is being sharpened as we speak.

Andrew Lee in an interview with Kelley Hayes