the.com/gentrification
the process by which a neighborhood gets nicer and you can no longer afford to live in it.
means the transformation of a low-income urban area through an influx of wealthier residents and businesses, raising property values and displacing longtime locals.
from coined in 1964 by sociologist ruth glass, describing london's working-class islington as the gentry moved in and rents followed; from gentry, the landed-but-not-quite-nobility class.
coined byruth glass, watching islington change in 1964
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root wordgentry, the almost-aristocrats of old england