Displacement, or “diss-placement” has adverse effects on entire communities and ultimately the individual. Although public planners usually act on the aesthetics of communities, the well-being of families and individuals are often overlooked. While overcoming this barrier may seem impossible on a municipal level, Fullilove mentions a model project that was able to demonstrate the importance of housing rehabilitation, housing cooperatives, and social services for families that have been recently uprooted and strengthened the “village-within-the-city.” In modern day Newark, the main hospital and medical school’s efforts to conduct community outreach has essentially integrated the institution into the surrounding community.Root shock can be sympathetic and humane if the means to facilitate a new neighborhood with a sense of unity are provided. Still, is this end justified by the means by which it was achieved?