In his campaign visit here, Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders took the opportunity to address gentrification in Greenville in particular.

Now, two weeks later, the Vermont senator who is running on a slogan of social, economic and racial justice has featured Greenville's gentrification issue in a nationwide campaign video.

The video was shared on Sanders' Twitter page, which has 9.3 million followers, and features scenes from downtown Greenville, local black activists in the community and clips of the forum Sanders moderated at the West End Community Development Center on April 19.

"In Greenville, South Carolina, and cities all over the country," Sanders tweeted, "people can no longer afford to live in the communities where they were born and raised, created memories and built families. We will attack the problem of gentrification and rising rents in America."

The campaign video with footage from the visit includes local activists Stacey Mills, Rashida Jeffers-Campbell, Jalen Elrod and Traci Fant.

The four spoke of how historically black communities in Greenville are not only losing longtime residents but also a culture built over the course of generations before re-urbanization by the privileged who once fled for the suburbs.

"When you look at houses that are vacant or houses that are blighted, you see brick and mortar, but you don't see the community where kids would play," said Mills, pastor of Mountain View Baptist Church, which bought 25 lots on Temple and Cagle streets for affordable housing. "Here, you've got families watching out for one another."

During the forum last month at the West End center before a rally at the Peace Center, Sanders said gentrification was national issue.

“The bottom line is, we have to say before we can even come up with a solution what we want," he said at the forum. "And that is that working people have a right to continue to live in the communities that they love and where they grew up."

Sanders focused on three initiatives to alleviate housing costs for those finding it too expensive to live in the inner city with rising property values.

He suggested a housing trust fund, which the city has established, along with rent control policies and what's known as "inclusionary zoning," which requires developers to include affordable housing as part of new developments.

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