gentrification

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I have roots many of them here For me gentrification, and this election tangentially have been about feeling my roots fill with water and hearing chainsaws in the distance.

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  1. noun The restoration and upgrading of deteriorated urban property by middle-class or affluent people, often resulting in displacement of lower-income people.

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  • The corner of University and San Pablo still retained a pre-gentrification, down-at-the heels shabbiness. —  FSF,January2008
  • Area now undergoing gentrification, arts and craft shops and upscale restaurants near by on Alamo. —  Death on the River Walk
  • This is your opportunity to tell the Council what you think of more high-rise development, gentrification, and construction downtown. —  portland indymedia - features
  • All you transplants moved there because of the gentrification, the hip scene, and affordable prices. —  LA Weekly | Complete Issue
  • "It is very difficult to negotiate with powerful forces who are interested in profit and land exchange and gentrification which is the declared value of the AHA," Beaty said.
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