What are the pro/con's of gentrification of this text? many detroit residents are celebrating a new era of revitalization, as the city’s thriving midtown is now dotted with upscale shops, restaurants and new construction. but motor city, blighted with 83,000 abandoned homes, is also seeing the forced relocation of low-income seniors, most of them african american. “but when you think a community is a blank slate,” tam e. perry said, “you’re also overlooking very vulnerable populations that have been part of the fabric of detroit and want to remain part of that fabric. as development is occurring in various parts of the city, senior relocation—or i would say forced relocation--is an unintended consequence.” detroit, perry noted, is a city of about 700,000 people, 82.7 percent of them black. more than one in 10 residents (11.5 percent) are 65 or older. perry said she became so engaged in her research that she joined the senior housing displacement-preservation coalition, a community advocacy group that is working to preserve senior housing, and to ease the transition for those who become displaced. this transition can have additional health consequences for seniors. for instance, a displaced senior with kidney failure not only lost her apartment, but access to her dialysis clinic around the corner. the coalition has identified at least a dozen federally subsidized buildings in detroit's now-thriving midtown and downtown areas that might be converted to market-rate apartments in the coming decade, displacing another 2,000 elders in midtown, perry said.