While reading the readings for this week, I couldn’t help but think about how gentrification seems to be a problem without solution. In both readings, the historical trajectory of neighborhoods is the focus—the process of gentrification, what starts it, and where it ends up. But if, for instance, we’re talking about Crown Heights, where gentrification is currently in the process of kicking people out of the neighborhood as prices climb, what is the solution to the problem? Is gentrification’s end as a displacement of previous tenants and the investment of newer wealthier ones inevitable once the process starts? And me, as a middle-class white kid renting an apartment in Flatbush, what part do I have in the whole process?