David Torres I-70

David Torres and his mother joined the ranks of some 350 residents forcibly displaced from the Elyria and Swansea neighborhoods to make way for a massive revitalization and gentrification project in Denver. Torres at his family's former home in north.Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Denver. “I felt like crying. My mother was in a daze,” Torres, 31, t described the meeting where the home was seized. “It was the house we grew up in.” (Photo by Joe Mahoney/MahoneyImages)

David Torres I-70

David Torres and his mother joined the ranks of some 350 residents forcibly displaced from the Elyria and Swansea neighborhoods to make way for a massive revitalization and gentrification project in Denver. Torres at his family's former home in north.Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Denver. “I felt like crying. My mother was in a daze,” Torres, 31, t described the meeting where the home was seized. “It was the house we grew up in.” (Photo by Joe Mahoney/MahoneyImages)

David Torres I-70

David Torres and his mother joined the ranks of some 350 residents forcibly displaced from the Elyria and Swansea neighborhoods to make way for a massive revitalization and gentrification project in Denver. Torres at his family's home in north.Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Denver. “I felt like crying. My mother was in a daze,” Torres, 31, t described the meeting where the home was seized. “It was the house we grew up in.” (Photo by Joe Mahoney/MahoneyImages)

David Torres I-70

David Torres, left, with life-long friend and community activist Candi Cdebaca, at Torres' family's former home in north.Denver, Colo., on Tuesday, Sept. 19, 2017 in Denver. Torres and his mother joined the ranks of some 350 residents forcibly displaced from the Elyria and Swansea neighborhoods to make way for a massive revitalization and gentrification project in Denver. “I felt like crying. My mother was in a daze,” Torres, 31, t described the meeting where the home was seized. “It was the house we grew up in.” (Photo by Joe Mahoney/MahoneyImages)