Definition of "gentrification" []

• The restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in displacement of lower-income people. (noun)

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• "But he makes no bones about why: "It's what you call gentrification," he says."
• "I lived the bulk of my life on these tough-but-safe streets long before the word "gentrification" entered the Park Slope lexicon, using this subway station as my gateway to the wide world."
• "Several people connected the decline in passion to what they described as a gentrification of the fan base."