gentrify

Example Sentences

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Around that same time, Port Morris, especially the blocks near the building, started to gentrify.

From New York Times • Feb. 15, 2023

“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

Until recently, community activists had opposed the project because they said it would gentrify their predominantly working-class, Latino and Asian neighborhood.

From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 30, 2022

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

From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021

He has watched other parts of metropolitan Cincinnati, including the West End and Over-the-Rhine, gentrify in ways that displaced longtime Black residents.

From Slate • Sep. 26, 2021