verb
- renovating and improving a house or district so that it conforms to middle-class taste, typically displacing lower-income residents
Usage: present participle of gentrify
Examples
- The neighborhood is rapidly gentrifying with new coffee shops and boutiques.
- Property values are rising as developers continue gentrifying the area.
- Long-time residents worry about gentrifying forces pushing them out.
- The city council is debating policies to slow the gentrifying process.
- Artists who moved to the cheap district are now gentrifying it themselves.
- Gentrifying neighborhoods often lose their original character and diversity.