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The Suppression Weight · East Austin, TX
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Dharma verdict
77–87. Fully priced. Capital without trust.
Recommendation: pass. A gap of +6 — little latent value left to surface, and the trust base is missing. This is the extractive pattern, not the Dharma Zone. (Gap +6)
What's holding the 76 down
Black population displacement
+3.2
1928 Master Plan / I-35 segregation legacy
+1.8
Eviction & rent-burden pressure
+1.3
CC 76 + uplift +6LV 77–87
Current Conditions 76 + sourced suppression +6 = Latent Value 77–87. Click any factor to see the receipt.
Capital × Community Trust
Amber dot = East Austin, TX · dot size = latent gap (LV − CC) · click any dot to open its report.
Trust is a core axis of this thesis, not a footnote. High capital with low trust is exactly the pattern the Suppression Weight is built to surface — the Dharma Zone is where capital and trust move together.
LATENTlow capital · high trust
Trust is high but capital hasn’t arrived yet — the upside the thesis chases.
DHARMA ZONEhigh capital · high trust
Capital and community trust move together — the healthy target state.
SUPPRESSEDlow capital · low trust
Both capital and trust are held down — the starting condition suppression creates.
EXTRACTIVEhigh capital · low trust
Money is flowing in but the community doesn’t trust it — value is pulled out, not built.
v1 placeholder calibration (rho=0.80, ceiling=100). No headlineBand pinned (no external pitch value supplied); the engine derives the band from mean confidence. cc=76 is grounded in Census ACS data showing East Austin (approx. ZIP 78702 and adjoining tracts) among the fastest-rising home-value and rent submarkets in the nation over the last two decades — the market has already (over-)capitalized the area, not a suppression showcase. quadrant.capital/trust are a qualitative placement, refine with the content owner: capital (80) reflects East Austin’s fully-captured, fast-appreciating market value; trust (36) reflects the documented displacement of the incumbent Black/Latino community, placing East Austin in the high-capital/low-trust EXTRACTIVE quadrant outside the Dharma Zone. Two candidate suppression-factor domains were researched and dropped under the kill rule as near-metro-baseline today: environmental burden (the Holly Street Power Plant closed in 2007 and the East Austin tank farm was relocated in 1993 after community organizing; current EPA EJScreen indicators for 78702 sit near the Austin metro baseline post-remediation and post-gentrification investment) and credit denial-rate gaps (HMDA data for East Austin tracts now show denial rates converged toward the Austin metro average, tracking the area’s income/credit-profile shift from in-migration) — see docs/dharma-lens-v2/places/east-austin.md for the full kill-rule notes. Over-representation shown as low latent gap + extractive quadrant; the engine does not model LV<CC (over-valuation).