‘A stranger in my own community’: Mixed feelings as young Latinos move back to gentrifying Chicago neighborhoods

Rocio Velazquez Kato, 34, is her ancestor’s wildest dream come true; a first-generation American, first-generation college graduate, immigration policy analyst at the Latino Policy Forum, licensed attorney, wife, mother, and as of this spring, a homeowner.

Velazquez Kato and her husband had previously owned a River North high-rise condo, but as she explained, “owning a piece of air” was vastly different and not nearly as impressive to her immigrant family. Owning a house, for immigrants, she says, goes beyond even the American dream. “You own a piece of America; you are a part of America.......

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