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8.5(2 votes)
1982
0h 33m
Documentary
povertydisplacementurban developmentgentrificationcommunity actionwoman directorracial justice

Overview

A prescient portrait of late-1970s Washington, D.C., that chronicles the city's creeping gentrification, the systematic expulsion of poor Black residents, and the community response in the form of the Seaton Street Project, in which tenants banded together to purchase buildings.

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