We’ve had plenty of heated debates on the issue of gentrification here at DCist, but if we’re honest, few of us have likely seen the issue through the eyes of those being gentrified out. And so steps in Chocolate City, a new documentary that attempts to take on the complex issue from the view of residents pushed out in the name of development.

The new movie, first screened last night at the Festival Centre on Columbia Road, follows the story of 400 low-income families of the Arthur Capper/Carrollsburg housing projects in Southeast who lost their homes in 2002 to make room for a new, mixed-income development funded in part by a $34.9 million HOPE VI federal grant. Though they were promised the chance to come back, the movie claims, both the number of low-income units to be built and the threshold used to define “low-income” in the new development pushed them out for good.