Published September 25, 2019.

Debra Brown knew exactly what would happen when her next-door neighbors sold her childhood home to a developer. She didn’t like it, and she couldn’t stop it.

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The developer would buy the lot and tear down the shotgun house her grandfather built on East 30th Street in Independence Heights. In its place a townhouse would rise, just like the one on her other side.