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gentrify

[jen-truh-fahy] / ˈdʒɛn trəˌfaɪ /




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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

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

He said the effort was a misguided attempt to gentrify blighted neighborhoods under the guise of fighting crime — a claim disputed by city leaders.

From Washington Post

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

What she had was a below-market tenancy in a neighborhood that gentrified around her.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2026

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

"I think rap is getting gentrified," he told New Wave magazine.

From BBC ● Jan. 8, 2026

And the remodeling of East London into a gentrified glass forest, a minor plot point, has only just begun.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 5, 2025

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

Those marginalized communities, like most voters around the country, don’t have the same tastes as the gentrifying parts of Harlem and upper Manhattan.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 23, 2026

The veteran lawmaker argues the elevated people mover — once touted as a marquee piece for the 2028 Olympic Games — won’t help those living in the working-class but gentrifying community.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 18, 2024

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

From New York Times ● May 16, 2024

Crucially, Washington Hall was not saved in formaldehyde, as a sterile monument to historic preservation by a predominantly white institution for predominantly white admirers in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 12, 2024

As I stood outside appraising it next to newer and much larger houses in the gentrifying neighborhood, a nagging question overwhelmed me: Is this really it?

From Slate ● Jan. 6, 2024


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