(This personal essay was originally published through L.A. Taco.)
Are you a gentrifier or a gentefier? Have you ever stopped to confront and reflect on this question as a person living in Los Angeles?
I recently asked myself this while apartment hunting. For context, I am a daughter of a working-class Mexican immigrant and a Salvadoran refugee, born and raised in Los Angeles County, and I still had to ask myself this hard question when looking to rent an apartment in LA.
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