gentrification.

Neighborhood change involving increased investment and the arrival of more affluent residents, often with rising costs and displacement pressures.

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Words that belong together

• urban gentrification
• gentrification of a neighborhood

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The study examined urban gentrification through housing costs and changes in who could remain.

Gentrification of the neighborhood brought investment while increasing pressure on existing tenants.

Usage notes

Primary category: economics / business / social science. Forms: Usually uncountable. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: social explanation, distributional analysis, population description, concept distinction. Disciplines: social science, economics, public policy. Commonness: moderately common.