Usually means: Revitalizing neighborhoods, displacing lower-income residents.
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  1. gentrifying: Merriam-Webster
  2. gentrifying: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. gentrifying: Collins English Dictionary
  4. gentrifying: Vocabulary.com
  5. gentrifying: Wordnik
  6. gentrifying: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. gentrifying: Wiktionary
  8. gentrifying: Dictionary.com
  9. gentrifying: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Gentrifying: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. gentrifying: TheFreeDictionary.com

(Note: See gentrify as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (gentrify)

verb:  (transitive) To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (now often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents).
▸ Also see gentrify





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