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Elderly Oak Park Woman Faces Losing Her Home

By Antonio R. Harvey | OBSERVER Staff Writer The realities of the intense gentrification of the city of Sacramento’s oldest neighborhood could effectively put a 71-year-old grandmother and janitorial worker […]

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