While reading this article, I realized that this subject of ‘gentrification’, has played a huge role into the theme of displacement. Governor Cuomo plans to fund $1.4 million towards healthcare services and job opportunites in central Brookyln. However, many residents fear that gentrification might occur because of the more healthier resources and jobs. As many New Yorkers have known, Brooklyn has become the place of gentrification and as a result, many Blacks and Latinos have been forced to move out of the area. More importantly, the culture itself of the “hood”, dies. Looking at the issue more carefully, racism factors into this topic repeatedly. In the article, a resident states “If you want to make it better for the community, why 2017? The community has been the way it has been since the ’70s,” implying that, for years, Brownsville has been ignored and now that gentrifcation is booming, all of a sudden Brooklyn became the place for development. A majority of balcks and latinos mostly reside in this area and because rents will soon rise, due to the housing development, many of them will be forced to move: “But where’s everybody else going to go? Down south? Where are we going to go?” Whenever a large population of minorities are being undermined, especially in this case with the rent issue, their only other option is to move somewhere else where their socioeconomic status benefits them.