Jacquie De Los Santos has always been able to glimpse the affluence of the other Boston.
When she peeks through the blinds on the top floor of her home in the Uphams Corner section of Dorchester, she can see the city’s gilded skyline just a couple of miles away.
Lately, the wealth has crept even closer.
Luxury apartments at the nearby Southbay development are fetching more than $4,700 per month.
And just a few blocks from her place, a new restaurant on Columbia Road is serving jerk-roasted duck with rice, peas, pikliz, and parsley oil for $30 a plate.
But this isn’t the typical tale of boomtown development — white money squeezing Black and Latino people out of a neighborhood they’ve long called home.
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