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evidence to suggest that changing retail mix is a primary cost of gentrification. Rising rents
seem likely to generate a far larger loss for local residents. Those losses represent a
redistribution from tenants to landlords. Politicians can reverse that redistribution by using cash
transfers, without resorting to regulating the normal churning of retail establishments.
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