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the process by which a neighborhood gets safer, cleaner, and unaffordable to the people who made it worth visiting.
means an influx of wealthier residents and capital into a lower-income area, raising property values and displacing the people who lived there first.
from coined in 1964 by sociologist ruth glass describing london's working-class islington, where she watched middle-class gentry quietly replace the locals street by street.
root wordfrom gentry, the landed genteel class
first targetislington, london, working-class in the 1960s
telltale signartists move in first, then rent triples
economic termdisplacement, not just renovation