gentrification

plural gentrifications

1. countableuncountableurban studiesThe renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.

   In particular, the focus is on property value changes and gentrification in Portland that are often attributed to urban growth and containment policies within the state.

   2007, Arthur C. Nelson et al., The Social Impacts of Urban Containment, Ashgate, →ISBN, page 71

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   Labour's manifesto contains the wild promise of 'war on the private landlord,' but this may conceal a real determination to use the powers of compulsory purchase to prevent the existing residents of places like North Kensington being driven out by the twin forces of 'gentrification' and development.

   1973 April 8, Jeremy Bugler, “Tomorrow's London”, in The Observer, London, retrieved 12 Sep 2016, page 13

   Who told you to buy a brownstone on my block, in my neighborhood, on my side of the street? Yo, what you wanna live in a Black neighborhood for, anyway? Man, motherfuck gentrification.

   1989, Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing, spoken by Buggin' Out (Giancarlo Esposito)

   I went to a large national forum not that long ago where about six hundred local government officials, nonprofit and neighborhood development corporation staff met to discuss the gentrification of urban neighborhoods. The irony is that the forum quickly shifted to discussions on race as it frequently does when gentrification is discussed.

   2010, Jerry Carrier, The Making of the Slave Class, Algora, →ISBN, page 177

2. countableuncountableA geographical area that is gradually becoming prosperous due to investment.