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Luke Hoffman
Lucy Morantz
Gentrification; noun gen·tri·fi·ca·tion \ ˌjen-trə-fə-ˈkā-shən \
the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces poorer residents- Merriam Webster Dictionary. Basically, gentrification means “improvement” of urban neighborhoods by outsiders of the area increasing property and real estate value consequently driving out the original members of the community.
Students in Mr. Muhammad’s economics class were given a project to go to go to areas of downtown Kansas City where gentrification is prominent. Student’s went to Troost, Union Hill, and Beacon Hill and briefly interviewed people they passed on the streets.
![After filming a “curl my hair with me” video for her TikTok account on Jan. 29, freshman Audrey Squires went viral, reaching over 4.2 million views and almost 450 thousand likes on her video.
It wasn’t until Audrey woke up the next morning after posting the video on her account, @EverydaywithAudrey, that she noticed the video’s success.
“I just remember being really surprised,” Audrey said. “I woke up and the video had around 100,000 views and throughout the day it kept getting more and more views. And then once every three weeks [the video] will get another 500,000 views, it’s just really crazy.”
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