Displacement
The destruction of much of the community in the 1960s was done with bulldozers. Urban Renewal made the destruction possible through the federal government paying 66 - 75 percent of the cost of creation of developments. The process begins with the federal government dictating that a community be declared as blighted and a slum. One can see the City Planning Department of Providence in the late 50s designating Mount Hope as a distinct neighborhood on the Eastside. This began the separation of the Black community here from the Eastside, a designation that echoes resentment by many from that time. However, while urban renewal was the major physical assault to the community, displacement is carried out through many other processes as described in the sections here, eviction, studentification and gentrification.