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Due to ‘gentrification’ and mixed emotions Jak and Company Hairdressers will be closing.

A sign posted by Latosha Jackson-Martin outside her father's 50-year-old hair salon in Washington, D.C.'s Bloomingdale neighborhood, where rent in the now-trendy area has skyrocketed. "I can't afford to pay double the rent like other folks," she said.

A sign posted by Latosha Jackson-Martin outside her father's 50-year-old hair salon in Washington, D.C.'s Bloomingdale neighborhood, where rent in the now-trendy area has skyrocketed. "I can't afford to pay double the rent like other folks," she said.

Daniel Luzer is GOVERNING's news editor.