gentrify
jen tri fahy
- v renovate so as to make it conform to middle-class aspirations
gentrify a row of old houses
gentrify the old center of town
- Hundreds of state enterprise workers have gone for months without pay, and thousands of others are still homeless three years after their homes were torn down in a plan to gentrify .
- This casino owner is on a mission to gentrify gambling.
- But the study also suggests that these residents weren't moving out of their neighborhoods at a disproportionately higher rate than from similar neighborhoods that didn't gentrify.