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gentrification
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right|thumb|upright=1.3|Gentrification with a typical ranch-style house|ranch house side by side with a modern house in [[Dallas, Texas, in 2020]]
Gentrification is when neighborhoods undergo physical and demographic changes, typically involving the renovation of older buildings and an influx of wealthier residents, as illustrated by the contrast between older ranch-style and newer modern homes in Dallas. It matters because these transformations can significantly alter neighborhoods' character, affordability, and who lives in them.
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47 sectionsContents
- Origin and etymology
- Definitions
- Causes
- Effects
- Crime
- Displacement
- Social changes
- Economic shifts
- Education
- Health
- Measurement
- Populations impacting and impacted by gentrification
- The upper-class
- Women
- Artists
- LGBT community
- Control
- Other methods
- Direct action and sabotage
- Zoning ordinances
- Community land trusts
- Rent control
- Examples
- Inner London
- Mexico City
- Canada
- France
- Honduras
- South Africa
- Italy
- Poland
- Russia
- United States
- Anti-gentrification protests
- Benezet Court, Inc. (Philadelphia, PA)
- Movement for Justice in El Barrio
- Cereal Killer Cafe protest
- San Francisco tech bus protests
- ink! Coffee Protest (Denver, Colorado)
- Hamilton Locke Street Vandalism
- Condesa and Roma violent clashes (Mexico City, 4–5 July, 2025)
- Litigation against gentrification
- See also
- References
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Further reading
right|thumb|upright=1.3|Gentrification with a typical ranch-style house|ranch house side by side with a modern house in [[Dallas, Texas, in 2020]]
Gentrification is a process in which increased investment in a neighborhood drives up property values and rents, displacing lower-income residents by increasing prices so that such residents can no longer afford to live there. In public discourse, it has been used to describe a wide array of phenomena, sometimes in a pejorative connotation.