gentrify
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The horizontal city is just too big to fully gentrify; there was always another neighborhood where an artist could find studio space, or a gallery could open up shop.
From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 1, 2025
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
Rundown apartments are still a hazard, but displacement has become public enemy No. 1 in housing policy as city neighborhoods gentrify and awareness of the importance of stability grows.
From Slate • Feb. 8, 2022
Property developers should lure displaced Americans to gentrify the Rust Belt along the Great Lakes.
From Washington Post • Nov. 17, 2021
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