This provider stated, ‘The need has increased because people are pushed out of the city [lower downtown area], which gentrifies first…all food bank use is low-income’. They mentioned social isolation, ...
I don't know how long the tracks have been idle. Presumably the railroad tracks will be removed as the area gentrifies. Photo by R. C. DeArmond. 7 SE 2007. Close up view of power-lineman in his bucket ...
But he hastened to add that there are bigger trends that the city’s Black electorate needs to be concerned with — namely, its dwindling percentage of the population as the city gentrifies.