Build baby build. In markets with lots of housing being built, rents are plunging on lower tier apts. They can't compete with the new units on quality/amenities so they have to lower their prices. The opposite is true in markets with low housing construction, including Cincinnati
No one is saying asphalt is racist, but it’s literally a fact that freeways were built through minority neighborhoods as part of “slum clearance.” 27,000 residents, of which 98% of the people were black were displaced in Cincy’s West End.