• Some of the cons of gentrification include displacement, cultural erasure and a spike in the cost of living, especially for underserved communities.
  • Gentrification was at first identified as a process of reappropriation of the neglected and abandoned centres of American and British cities by the middle classes.
  • Gentrification, a word so often used, but so difficult to define. This year is its 50th birthday, and it is more bloated than ever.
  • Urbanization is a phenomenon that resembles gentrification in that less affluent communities are displaced by more affluent residents.
  • Once this process of 'gentrification' starts in a district it goes on rapidly until all or most of the original working-class occupiers are displaced and the whole social...
  • Gentrification is the transformation of a neighborhood through the influx of wealthier residents, raising property values.
  • Figuring out Gentrification. Gentrification is derived from "nobility," which historically alluded to individuals of a raised social status.
  • Gentrification comes from the British word, “gentry,” which refers to wealthy landowners. There is also a cultural aspect of gentrification.
  • 'Gentrification' is a contested, often ambiguously and variously used or understood term, and is most commonly used to imply or emphasize negative effects.
  • Summary
    • How (and why) does gentrification happen?
    • How to identify a suburb going through gentrification