Gentrifying

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Definitions and meanings of "Gentrifying"

What do we mean by gentrifying?

To renovate or improve something, especially housing or district, to make it more appealing to the middle classes (often with the negative association of pricing out existing residents)

What people who have lived in a place for more than 5 years call people who have lived in a place for less than 5 years. Urban Dictionary

A puritan conservative who pretends that is a 'hipster' Urban Dictionary

Sissified, punk used to describe someone unaccustomed to frank discussions, particularly a man who is made uncomfortable by mild hostility, a fop Urban Dictionary

A word used by people who insist their neighborhoods can never change to disparage new construction and change in the composition of the neighborhood. Usually accompanies by NIMBYISM. Typically, the cause of this is either being unwilling to accept new development, and/or not realizing that when new houses are built for the rich, their old houses open up for everyone else. Urban Dictionary

When people try to make somebody a part of their community, they dont need it to gentrify, it's no way to repay them. People should have as much involvement in the decision of what goes where in the area they live as a developer or anybody else involved in a decision, even if they dont pay to build it. The king is as in need of his subjects as the subjects are in need of him sort of thing. The same applies with music or anything else somebody wants to gentrify. Urban Dictionary

A self made hipster that maintains hood tendencies, despite being out of his element Urban Dictionary

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The word "gentrifying" in example sentences

In this context, "quality of life" is an array of ordinances being used against people deemed "abnormal" or "undesirable," especially in gentrifying areas. ❋ Paul Boden (2010)

He also noted the trend toward "gentrifying" community colleges through screening out immigrant students and tied in particular the changes in programs at Medgar Evers College where a special program for providing education to prisoners was cancelled by the new president of the college. ❋ Joel Shatzky (2010)

The political representatives of the Windsor-Essex region have romanticized the concept of "gentrifying" Windsor to attract financially-secure retirees; considering Canada's demographics, said process is inevitable. ❋ Unknown (2008)

There’s something of a chicken-and-egg problem there (was it built because developers projected it was about to “tip” anyway?) but one might at least speculate that the incursion of a few of these bobo-friendly establishments — Starbucks, Whole Foods, Anthropologie, whatever — can start a kind of gentrifying cascade, a kind of reverse broken windows effect. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Even if these kids are visible to many Whole Foods shoppers (as they surely are in Washington, DC home to a plethora of the chain's stores in the city's wealthy and gentrifying neighborhoods), there's the infrastructural challenges that will continue to perpetuate this societal problem. ❋ Sarah Newman (2010)

As neighborhoods change these figures often sit between the place's old and new incarnations, becoming the positive "local color" that gives a gentrifying area its coveted character. ❋ Gary Dauphin (2010)

A cluster of new businesses and ventures, many of them anchored by large condominium buildings, is drawing more shoppers and residents to a slowly gentrifying stretch of West 116th Street in Harlem. ❋ Melanie Lefkowitz (2012)

"This neighborhood used to be [so real] before all those gentrifiers moved in." (Generally said by someone who [grew] up in [the suburbs], probably in a different state). ❋ Baltimore (2015)

I was a gentrifier in [Williamsburg]. Like the maligned hipsters, I used my parents’ savings to secure a place to live. I wanted grocery stores that carried organic products like Horizon milk for $6 per half-gallon, and overpriced but [aesthetically] satisfying coffee shops like El [Beit]. I needed expensive boutiques, otherwise I would have felt bad for having left Manhattan. ❋ Compay (2010)

Don't let the [flannel] [fool] you; at heart he's a gentrified [little girl]. ❋ Tom Ballard (2008)

"I can't believe developers tried to build a new apartment in the one part of [my city] that hasn't been [zoned] for single-family housing. I can't believe capitalism would [gentrify] the poor people out of their homes!" ❋ Pizzaslayer111 (2020)

[The king] thoughts his subjects were the only people who needed [permission] to do anything, so he went ahead and tried to [gentrify] their lives for them. ❋ Solid Mantis (2020)

Im a [genuine] [gentrified gangster], find me at the [farmers market] ❋ Carlo Blanco (2019)

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