gentrify
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Organizers fear the office-centric development, with a K Line stop onsite, will further gentrify the neighborhood.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 7, 2022
Rundown apartments are still a hazard, but displacement has become public enemy No. 1 in housing policy as city neighborhoods gentrify and awareness of the importance of stability grows.
From Slate ● Feb. 8, 2022
As more big businesses started to come in and gentrify all of Broadway, seeing that happen, it was traumatizing honestly.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 1, 2021
No one really knows what to do with a neighborhood that cannot gentrify its way to glory.
From New York Times ● Jun. 4, 2021
He said the effort was a misguided attempt to gentrify blighted neighborhoods under the guise of fighting crime — a claim disputed by city leaders.
From Washington Post
As the neighborhood gentrifies and Chinese residents grow older and fewer, the clubs — called “tong,” “gungso” or “wui” in Cantonese — remain a vital social glue.
From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 2, 2023
But as the area gentrifies — driven, in a major way, by the opening of SoFi Stadium — there’s concern that the city, as remembered through its classic rap lyrics, is disappearing.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2022
“Usually when a neighborhood gentrifies, the new stores that open are mostly very expensive,” she said.
From Washington Post ● Aug. 2, 2017
Across the state border in Louisiana, New Orleans is facing similar problems as it develops and gentrifies.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 6, 2017
But as it gentrifies she realizes they are, in some ways, trapped.
From New York Times ● Mar. 19, 2017
Foreign visitors, mostly young, are seen daily wandering through gentrified neighborhoods gazing at their cellphones, following directions to the latest hip spots hyped on Instagram and TikTok.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 22, 2025
In the gentrified Alberta Arts District, residents called Trump's claims about Portland laughable, and praised the city for its culture and friendly vibes.
From BBC ● Oct. 7, 2025
He is concerned that individuals buying homes for a $1 may lead to areas being gentrified, which results in general rent levels being “jacked up” and people on lower incomes being “pushed out”.
From BBC ● Oct. 6, 2024
“The Western markets did not democratize EVs. They gentrified EVs,” said Bill Russo, the founder of the Automobility Ltd. consultancy in Shanghai.
From Seattle Times ● May 12, 2024
This is the Mission District, a gentrified hotbed of sushi, tapas, hip Mexican restaurants, and upscale furniture stores.
From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel
Working-class Fishtown has been gentrifying, but a lot of old-timers have decided to stick around.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 5, 2026
In spring 2023, developers in the quickly gentrifying West Adams neighborhood handed Sandra Mejia a 90-day eviction notice on the lease for her plant store, the Plant Chica, a business she started in 2018.
From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2025
The gentrifying Reagan years that followed gave rise to archly analytic work addressing institutional power.
From New York Times ● May 16, 2024
As I stood outside appraising it next to newer and much larger houses in the gentrifying neighborhood, a nagging question overwhelmed me: Is this really it?
From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2024
The author of “The Revisioners” returns with a family saga: one in which a Black mother and three daughters dream of musical stardom in a gentrifying 1950s San Francisco.
From Seattle Times ● Sep. 27, 2023
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