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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

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

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

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

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

It happened place by place, inch by inch, a dusty disco ball left in the rummage while a Starbucks or a boutique gym rose to serve the freshly gentrified block around it.

From Salon ● Sep. 6, 2026

The front MacPherson struts and rear multi-links have been upgraded and thoroughly gentrified.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 1, 2026

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

A seven-story boulder on federal land has become a tinderbox of tensions over who gets to enjoy this patch of Mojave Desert, which has rapidly gentrified since the COVID-19 pandemic.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 7, 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

This corner of Brooklyn is moving on to the next wave of gentrification: They’re culturally gentrifying the original gentrifiers, erasing the identity of precariously employed DJs who are experimenting with polyamory and microbangs.

From Slate ● Sep. 6, 2026

The Mirage, a 32,000-square-foot, open-air dance venue on the outskirts of gentrifying north Brooklyn, looked like a home run to Axar Capital, Axelrod’s fund.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 27, 2026

California’s 34th District is overwhelmingly composed of renters and includes some of the most densely populated working-class neighborhoods in the country, as well as some of the most rapidly gentrifying sections of Los Angeles.

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 4, 2025

The gentrifying Reagan years that followed gave rise to archly analytic work addressing institutional power.

From New York Times ● May 16, 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