Inclusive Gentrification

Gentrification:

the process by which a poor neighborhood in a city is changed by people who have money, including esp. the improvement or replacement of buildings

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Pros

Cons

The atmosphere of the community begin to lift.

It creates new options for food, retail outlets, and jobs.

Gentrification can create new housing opportunities.

You will experience cleaner neighborhoods with gentrification.

Gentrification creates new activities and events to try.

Public safety gets better thanks to the gentrification process.

It changes the cultural standards of the neighborhood.

It raises the cost of rent when it happens.

Gentrification removes the people who built the community.

It causes the rich to get richer while the poor become poorer.

It causes low-income households to move to a poorer neighborhood.

Gentrification doesn’t always take the history of the community into account.

The word gentrification is now mostly used in a disapproving way, but was originally considered positive.