0 to change a place from being a poor area to a richer one, by people of a higher social class moving to live there: --
The area has been considerably gentrified, due in part to recent investment from the various levels of all governments.
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.
Although historically a working class community, in recent years the neighborhood has been substantially gentrified.
In the 1970s, the suburb began to gentrify, with much of the remaining old housing stock being renovated and restored.
The opposing side, the community saved side, argues that community activity increases when neighborhoods are gentrified because these neighborhoods are being revitalized.
In gentrifying communities without strong rent-control laws poor residents are informally evicted when they can not afford the increased rents.
As the neighbourhood has gentrified, it has gained citywide, and even international, visibility and support.
