Gentrification happens when a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in meaning improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displaying current inhabitants in the process and forcing them to move somewhere else. My basic research question for my topic is “How can we reduce gentrification?” Gentrification is a big problem in today’s society because it shows urban areas being renovated by wealthy people and this is bad for people living in the urban areas because it will shift the neighborhood characteristics and racial-ethnic composition, and the rent there will begin to increase, the mortgages, and the property taxes and this forces the people living in the area to start moving out and find somewhere else to live, somewhere where they can afford the cost of living in a place and not somewhere expensive. According to Carpenito, Thomas. “How to Fix Gentrification.” Medium, Medium, 11 Sept. 2020, medium.com/@thomascarpenito3/how-to-fix-gentrificationcb74ccd35447#:~:text=The%20best%20way%20to%20do,housing%20and%20universal%20rent%2Dstabilization.&text=%E2%80%9CMandatory%20Inclusive%20Housing%E2%80%9D%20is%20a,affordable%20housing%20across%20the%20city.”Upzoning (rezoning an area to increase density/height), however, is a massive political feat. Both low-income and high-income neighborhoods lobby and fiercely reject upzoning due to the numerous negative effects associated with it. This tremendous resistance and almost unanimous resistance to increasing housing in the city council has meant that there has hardly been any rezoning during the entire De Blasio administration (2014-Current). In the city council, members often vote in line with the council member whose district is being rezoned. To garner support for upzoning a variety of policies must first be implemented before rezoning to allow the rezoning to be beneficial and politically viable to all residents.” This Communicates that a lot of people are putting up resistance to Gentrification because all of the people know the side and negative effects of having their area/community gentrified and the government is rezoning people so they can build what they want in people’s community.