gentrification

Meaning

Noun

• The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.

Origin

• From gentry + -ification, after gentrify. .
• {{cite-book
• |year=1964
• |author=Ruth Glass
• |authorlink=Ruth Glass
• |author2=University College, London. Centre for Urban Studies
• |title=London: Aspects of Change
• |series=Centre for Urban Studies report
• |seriesvolume=3
• |publisher=MacGibbon & Kee
• |location=London
• |oclc=1618199
• |page=18
• |passage=Nowadays, many of these houses are being sub-divided into costly flats or ‘houselets’ (in terms of the new real estate snob jargon). The current social status and value of such dwellings are frequently in inverse relation to their size, and in any case enormously inflated by comparison with previous levels in their neighbourhoods. Once this process of ‘gentrification’ starts in a