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I don't think there would be much opposition to 'revitalization' if that word meant building affordable housing at the scale necessary to prevent massive displacement. And also providing amenities and services to improve the lives of existing residents, not just to make development more profitable and attract future, wealthier residents. It's not about keeping places the way they are, it's about who gets to live in cities, who shapes their future? There's certainly a narrow sense in which opposing new development will worsen the housing shortage, but there's a more profound struggle going on for the right to the city -- and we know developers and banks won't ever fix the housing shortage, anyway, so why surrender our neighborhoods to them?