If my whole neighborhood goes condo...

..... does this mean I get to haunt it?

Haunted House Films Are Really About the Nightmares of Gentrification

This thriving subgenre depends upon the audience believing, on some level, that what "we" have was attained by violence, and the fear that it will be taken by violence. In the process, because mainstream audiences are seen as white, and because gentrification predominantly impacts communities of color, the racial Other becomes literally monstrous.