When Kim McGrath first saw the Kansas City, Mo., apartment building that would become her home, it was a wreck. Rot had eaten away at the interior and fires had damaged the decks, which hung precariously off the three-story brick structure.
A neighbor later told her that people had been squatting in the building, Ms. McGrath said. The owner, an elderly woman, enlisted the police to board it up.
It's still in a wrecked neighborhood no matter how well it dressed up.
“Rich lady does gentrification” wow omg cool
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