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‘Anything can be taken from you’ — crowd rallies against gentrification on Salt Lake City’s west side

The rally featured two speakers who had recently been forced to leave their longtime homes.

(Francisco Kjolseth | The Salt Lake Tribune) People put up a signs that reads “this neighborhood is not for sale!” in front of the home that Gaspar Valencia lived in for eight years before being forced out by a developer with plans to tear it down along with adjacent properties to build an apartment on the site. On Saturday, Aug. 6, 2022, the community gathered to protest the gentrification they see happening to their neighborhood.