Revitalizing Our Inner-City Neighborhood — Without Gentrification

I didn’t want to simply have a nice house in a bad neighborhood

Carl L Lane
Better Humans
Published in
11 min readOct 9, 2020

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A girl waters plants.
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I bought a little house a couple of years ago. It sits on a mostly quiet street in a mostly Black subdivision, with a good amount of Latinos. The larger area of Houston, of which my subdivision is a part, is called Sunnyside, and it has a…

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English degree, published author of fiction and nonfiction, certified sommelier, fitness enthusiast, and someone who cares deeply about the world we live in.