Gentrification often fails to foster dialogue between new white residents and former black residents because:
a. racism prevents people of different races from freely speaking with one another
b. the black families fled to the suburbs when the whites moved into their neighborhoods
c. a social class barrier divided the two groups
d. white families rented most of the homes to transients who did not live in the community long enough to establish relationships
Answer: c. a social class barrier divided the two groups
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