gentrify

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Working with UC Berkeley city and regional planning professor Karen Chapelle, she found those census tracts closest to the stations were much more likely to gentrify, especially if they were already seeing rising housing prices.

From Los Angeles Times • Oct. 7, 2022

“I would just hope that people that move here, that kind of gentrify unconsciously, would respect where they’re moving to and think about what they’re doing,” she said.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 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

Property developers should lure displaced Americans to gentrify the Rust Belt along the Great Lakes.

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

Mileyka Burgos-Flores said Plaza Seafood represents a part of the culture that is fading from the Allapattah neighborhood, which in recent years has started to gentrify.

From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2021