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The pattern in McAllen
McAllen is earlier on the gentrification curve — which means the anti-displacement window is still open, and skills-based wealth building can outrun it. Watch three signals: rent growth outpacing wage growth, longtime-resident turnover, and school enrollment shifts. The Urban Displacement Project publishes regional maps; your city's housing department publishes the local data.
The counter-move
Housing policy fights the cost side. Amigos en Acción fights the income side — routing McAllen's own young people into verified higher-wage skills so rising neighborhood value lifts the families already here. That loop is built into our patent-pending architecture.
Full local picture: the McAllen page.