0 past simple and past participle of gentrify --
1 to change a place from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there: --
It dealt with the longings and dreams of a group of children whose neighborhood was being gentrified and who were forced to move out.
These changes are echoed by the front cover, whose frontispiece becomes more gentrified.
Now, with crime rates down, the area is quickly becoming gentrified.
The neighborhood remains largely white, but it continues to become gentrified.
Although historically a working class community, in recent years the neighborhood has been substantially gentrified.
The opposing side, the community saved side, argues that community activity increases when neighborhoods are gentrified because these neighborhoods are being revitalized.
As the neighbourhood has gentrified, it has gained citywide, and even international, visibility and support.
It says that gentrification takes homes from people who badly need them and provides a contrast between the gentrified and people who are living in poverty.
