How to Use gentrification in a Sentence

gentrification

noun

• Known to New Yorkers as Bed-Stuy, the area has had its ups and downs over the past several decades and is now in the throes of late-stage gentrification.
  — Mike Desimone and Jeff Jenssen, Robb Report, 14 Oct. 2023
• The upheaval of gentrification is a theme of many of the pieces, which include paintings and collages as well as 3D assemblages.
  — Mark Jenkins, Washington Post, 26 Jan. 2024
• Some folks did already live in the Dickson Street area, and those who did complained the project was gentrification in action and the old neighborhood would be pushed out.
  — April Wallace, arkansasonline.com, 7 Dec. 2023
• Some have raised the question of gentrification in areas like Portland as well.
  — Rae Johnson, The Courier-Journal, 26 Aug. 2022
• Many spaces that were used as jazz venues in the early 1900s are no longer around, DeVeaux said, the buildings knocked down and turned into high-rises—the victims of gentrification.
  — Tori Latham, Robb Report, 26 Feb. 2024
• Of course, gentrification is about much more than $6 lattes.
  — Nico Avalle, Bon Appétit, 25 Jan. 2023
• The biggest worry many had was about gentrification, Mr. Driscoll said.
  — Jim Zarroli, New York Times, 3 June 2023
• Act Two is set in the same house in the present day, as the now predominantly African-American neighborhood battles to hold its ground in the face of gentrification.
  — cleveland, 16 Sep. 2022
• People on the sidewalk, often new immigrants, would crowd around the notices, looking for a place to land — no easy feat in a neighborhood in the throes of gentrification.
  — Aruna D’souza, New York Times, 21 June 2023
• These days, musicians like Mr. Rodriguez who cut their chops in street jams feel an urgency to save the music from new threats of gentrification.
  — Photographs Todd Heisler, New York Times, 9 Feb. 2023
• The city is just past a midpoint in its study of gentrification and is likely to get policy suggestions before year’s end.
  — Tony Semerad, The Salt Lake Tribune, 20 Oct. 2022
• The idea of cannibalism as a metaphor for gentrification was a lightbulb moment for the writer and director Aaron Mark.
  — Laura Zornosa, Time, 7 July 2023
• The musical tells the story of two rival drag bars who, thanks to gentrification and rising costs, are forced to compete against each other for survival.
  — Stephen Daw, Billboard, 13 Dec. 2023
• These neighborhoods, which include Crown Hill and the Near Eastside, are showing signs of gentrification.
  — Claire Rafford, The Indianapolis Star, 19 Dec. 2022
• Little Haiti is swallowed by the urban creep of gentrification.
  — Phillip Valys, Sun Sentinel, 3 Oct. 2022
• But the new report noted that the bills do not address the impact of short-term rentals on housing, including displacement and gentrification.
  — Dánica Coto, Quartz, 22 Feb. 2024
• The displacement and gentrification that has occurred on the island has been well-chronicled.
  — Fidel Martinez, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
• But Twitter and other beneficiaries of the tax break were blamed for many of the woes plaguing the city today, including sky-high rents and gentrification.
  — Trisha Thadani, Washington Post, 26 July 2023
• Avoiding gentrification The best way of knowing what a community values is to ask the people who live there.
  — Anthony Alvarez, The Conversation, 6 June 2023
• The script is dotted with lines about the city’s east side, gentrification and how Detroit is a small town pretending to be a big city because everybody knows everybody.
  — Julie Hinds, Detroit Free Press, 19 Mar. 2024
• For every Worthing that has pockets of gentrification, there are others with nothing much to dangle for tourists.
  — Simon Montlake, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 July 2023
• Located in the heart of Bedstuy, right on Fulton St., the brand takes a stand against gentrification and uplifts its community.
  — Kerane Marcellus, Essence, 18 Nov. 2022
• Then gentrification drove many artists from the neighborhood.
  — Cate McQuaid, BostonGlobe.com, 19 Sep. 2023
• His activism was fueled partly by his own experiences as a squatter, but also by a desire to stymie the tides of gentrification that had buoyed his own life.
  — Wes Enzinna, Harper’s Magazine , 5 Jan. 2023
• This kind of project is a catalyst for gentrification and displacement and OCPS should never have accepted it, the letter said.
  — Desiree Stennett, Orlando Sentinel, 9 Mar. 2023
• Elizabeth Chen will meet Darcy Wong as the two clash over the gentrification of a beloved community center.
  — Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times, 29 June 2023
• Roth’s Newark has been through more drastic change than many cities: the blistering 1967 riots, retrenchment, now gentrification and growth.
  — Karen Heller, Washington Post, 22 Mar. 2023
• Maybe gentrification, the sometimes forcible displacement of those who came before, is a crime unto itself.
  — Alexandra Jacobs, New York Times, 1 Oct. 2023
• During those years, just before a fierce wave of gentrification hit the area, the photographer Angela Cappetta often rose at dawn to roam the streets, a Fuji 6x9 camera in hand.
  — Ana Karina Zatarain, The New Yorker, 30 Dec. 2022
• It’s located a few blocks from Skid Row, where efforts at gentrification often clash with homelessness and crime.
  — Stephanie Nolasco, Fox News, 28 Oct. 2023

Last Updated: 3 May 2024