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UNCOVERED: Class war outsiders moving to puerto rico trigger displacement | History Defined

'Not for sale, not for rent,' reads a sign in Cabo Rojo, Puerto Rico, where a planned major development has many residents concerned over rapid gentrification and displacement (Credit: AFP)

Gloria Cuevas thought she would live forever in her pink, century-old house on Puerto Rico's west coast -- but then her landlord decided to transform the home into an Airbnb.

Cuevas left her home -- now purple and split in two -- and her beloved city for another further south, forced out by the rising cost of living and an explosion of short-term rentals on the US Caribbean island territory.

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