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gentrification
[jen-truh-fi-key-shuhn]
noun
the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
the process of conforming to an upper- or middle-class lifestyle, or of making a product, activity, etc., appealing to those with more affluent tastes.
the gentrification of fashion.
gentrification
/ ˌɛԳٰɪɪˈɪʃə /
noun
a process by which middle-class people take up residence in a traditionally working-class area of a city, changing the character of the area
Other 51Թ Forms
- ˈԳٰˌھ noun
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gentrification1
51Թ History and Origins
Origin of gentrification1
Example Sentences
New development can also bring gentrification, which is why some nonprofits are attempting to buy up lots to resell them below market value to displaced locals.
If not by gentrification and L.A.’s habit of eating its own, then natural disasters.
Clips of Bobba’s pitch made rounds across social media, sparking a conversation on the cultural cost of culinary appropriation and gentrification.
But in the prosecution’s telling, Jacobs’ case shows gentrification and plummeting homicide numbers haven’t changed the fact that a young Black man can still be killed for wearing the wrong color in the wrong neighborhood.
Black residents had already been moving away because of gentrification before the fires and saw their homes severely damaged or destroyed at higher rates than other groups during the blaze.
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