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Are rents rising in your Philly neighborhood? Don't blame the baristas

  • Written by Geoff Moss, Professor of Sociology, Temple University
imageSociology researchers at Temple University interviewed 61 Philadelphia baristas who work in gentrifying neighborhoods. Maskot/Getty Images

Baristas who work in specialty coffee shops, along with hipsters more generally, have been referred to as the “shock troops” of urban gentrification – and it’s no different in...

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