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Missing from the Seattle area rental market: compassion

caption: Gwen Allen Carston in her store, C & G Hair & Beauty Supply, which has become a center of black life in Kent.
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Gwen Allen Carston in her store, C & G Hair & Beauty Supply, which has become a center of black life in Kent.
KUOW Photo/Carolyn Adolph

Gwen Allen Carston is the owner of a beauty supply shop in Kent. She is also a founder of the Kent Black Action Commission. Region of Boom reporter Carolyn Adolph visited her to ask how life in Kent is evolving as people from so many backgrounds move in.

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