Pushback against direct displacement has increased as the list of unrecognizable neighborhoods grows longer and longer, but people don’t seem to realize the violent uprooting of communities is far from being the only way an area can change. Instead of giving free development money toward high rise luxury rentals, subsidies could go to public transportation, new grocery stores, libraries and infrastructure that would allow small businesses to flourish. Rather than seeing locals as disruptors that need to be pushed out, already well established aspects of urban life can be incorporated into new city plans. Residents can work together to keep city officials from withholding information from them, namely the cruel economic development programs, unregulated real estate practices, and policies that disregard careful and equitable growth for rushed development that totally ignores existing, functioning systems.