Many mutual aid groups report facing pressure from law enforcement, which they see as emerging directly from their support for marginalized populations. This gets to the heart of what mutual aid organizer and scholar Sean Parson says is the driving force in the repression of mutual aid organizations, which is that these groups support the very communities who make it impossible for developers to gentrify. “[When mutual aid groups] are targeted, it seems to be overlapped or linked when it’s tied to a desire for gentrification. He added that escalation in the targeting of mutual aid groups almost always comes alongside efforts to “sanitize” a city for commercial interests. For the mutual aid organizers in Asheville, part of their solution to police repression was another act of mutual aid.