EBDI has been controversial from the start, with some looking on it as a forced gentrification project straight from the bad-old-days of urban renewal. It involved the relocation of hundreds of families — some within the area but many to other communities. And demands that more of the jobs created by the initiative go to the area's existing residents have persisted. Some of the early redevelopment projects in particular were focused on affordable housing, and EBDI used a "house for a house" model to move families to newly rehabilitated homes within the project's footprint. More recent market-rate construction — including the homes sold this weekend, which ranged in price from about $235,000 to $300,000 — is drawing people from around the region, but if the dream of an economically inclusive neighborhood has faltered to some degree, it's from the lack of incomes on the high end, not the low one.