While Reading "Building Powerful Community Organizations" By Michael Jacoby Brown

 I noticed while reading the text, something that particularly stuck out to me was the quote "Changing people's behavior requires the active involvement of those whose behavior you are trying to change". I found this quote provoking me into thoughts of the ways communities evolve. In gentrification in our local communities, what once were low-income neighborhoods and communities are quickly bought out and rebuilt and charging more for people to occupy said property. These numbers alone don't push gentrification, the people that move into these neighborhoods in turn influence each other to reform their behaviors to what they may see fit. This then creates an atmosphere previous residents may not afford to keep up with or may not feel comfortable living in. It's an unfortunate situation but how could this event otherwise have transpired? Would it not also be possible to create more businesses that would have provided job opportunities to the previous residents giving them a fighting chance to maintain their community and better adapt to a growing neighborhood thus make them more adaptable to new incoming residents. So digressing back to the original quote would it not then over time change an entire communities' behaviors by forcing an integration of different classes as opposed to gentrifying and separating people creating this class system within a community.