Gentrification app

So I was only able to come up with one idea so far for the Pittsburgh project. My group is in charge of making something for all the gentrification that is going on in Pittsburgh. I was thinking about what would be the best thing to stop the gentrification in cities like Pittsburgh. Since I do not know too much about gentrification all I know is wealthy companies go through and destroy old historical types of places the kind that may be possibly falling apart and they destroy them for corporate buildings, malls, sometimes apartment buildings (if people are lucky). The reason they are able to do this is because they want these prime locations that everyone is going to want to be a part of it some way or another. The Corporate big wigs are also going up against people who are extremely poor. I am proposing an app that helps these people who lose their towns to big business. It is an app that gives a bunch of other locations the big businesses could choose that are not going to make people up root their lives and they will also be good enough locations that will still turn a nice profit. I was thinking it could have a description as to where it is (by a highway exit, in a town, the middle of nowhere) and give a number at to how many people live around their in a 20 mile radius. This app will also have an option for a petition people can sign to save their towns. Then nobody has to go around making every sign a petition and waste their time doing so. I know this may not be the most realistic idea, but I think it could have possibilities of working and it would be a way for people to use the internet to their advantage as well.

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