![]() ![]() ![]() The group also singled out a small, family-owned convenience store, where residents said people exhibiting “drunken behavior” were gathering. For example, the group has targeted the local blood bank, saying that the people gathering around the building, many of them low-income and Black, were endangering the neighborhood’s safety. ![]() Chicago’s “Albany Park Neighbors” group, located in one of the most ethnically diverse neighborhoods in the United States, often focuses on businesses that are accused of bringing in “outsiders,” particularly people of color, homeless people, and people who appear to have substance addictions. Often, when someone posts a notification about a dangerous presence who warrants police attention, “dangerous” equals “young, Latino males.” Chicago anti-displacement organizer Lynda Lopez has seen complaints in local Facebook groups about her own neighborhood, Hermosa, a working-class, mostly Latinx community that is quickly gentrifying. The dynamics of gentrification also play a role in defining who is part of “the community”-and who isn’t. ![]()
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