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urban gentrification
Gentrification in the United States
commonly associated with an influx of higher-income movers into historically divested neighborhoods with existing, working-class residents, often resulting in increases in property prices and investment into new developments.
Gentrification of Atlanta
Gentrification of Atlanta's inner-city neighborhoods began in the 1970s, and it has continued, at varying levels of intensity, into the present.
Gentrification of Chicago
Gentrification, the process of altering the demographic and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood usually by decreasing the percentage of low-income minority residents and increasing the percentage higher-income residents, has been an issue between the residents of minority neighborhoods in Chicago who believe the influx of new residents destabilizes their communities, and the gentrifiers who see it as a process that economically improves a neighborhood.
Gentrification of Vancouver
The gentrification of Vancouver, Canada, has been the subject of debate between those who wish to promote gentrification and those who do not.
Gentrification of San Francisco
The gentrification of San Francisco has been an ongoing source of tension between renters and working people who live in the city as well as real estate interests.
Environmental gentrification
Environmental, ecological or green gentrification is a process in which cleaning up pollution or providing green amenities increases local property values and attracts wealthier residents to a previously polluted or disenfranchised neighbourhood.
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