How do you use Gentrification in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, including synonyms like restoration, plus the exact meaning.
Gentrification in a sentence
Gentrification meaning
- The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.
- A geographical area that is gradually becoming prosperous due to investment.
Synonyms of Gentrification
Using Gentrification
- The main meaning on this page is: The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process. | A geographical area that is gradually becoming prosperous due to investment.
- Useful related words include: restoration.
- In the example corpus, gentrification often appears in combinations such as: of gentrification, the gentrification, gentrification and.
Context around Gentrification
- Average sentence length in these examples: 22.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 3 start, 11 middle, 6 end
- Sentence types: 18 statements, 1 questions, 1 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Gentrification
- In this selection, "gentrification" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 22.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, rapid, exhibited, super, topology, driven and index stand out and add context to how "gentrification" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include adverse effects gentrification has on and ah gentrification the true. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "gentrification" sits close to words such as addict, behavioural and bengali, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with gentrification
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Among them: gentrification, displacement and traffic delays. (7 words)
Ah, gentrification – the true villain of our time! (8 words)
A story about gentrification and a complex father-daughter relationship. (10 words)
However, the market forces that are dictated by an excess supply cannot fully explain the geographical specificity of gentrification in the U.S., for there are many large cities that meet this requirement and have not exhibited gentrification. (38 words)
As Tanya Maria Golash-Boza describes in her 2023 book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, the reasons for this shift involve politics, racism, intentional displacement, and the policy of mass incarceration. (36 words)
In the film, Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle, played by Xolo Maridueña, takes a job at a wealthy CEO’s mansion to help his family, who’s losing their home amid gentrification-driven spikes in rent. (35 words)
How many American will face “climate gentrification” and what will be done? (12 words)
Ah, gentrification – the true villain of our time! (8 words)
Example sentences (20)
With their research, Kobel and Lamb were able to publish a gentrification topology outlining all the areas in Portland that are vulnerable to gentrification and displacement.
However, the market forces that are dictated by an excess supply cannot fully explain the geographical specificity of gentrification in the U.S., for there are many large cities that meet this requirement and have not exhibited gentrification.
Super-gentrification is quite different from the classical version of gentrification.
The Center for Disease Control and Prevention has a webpage discussing adverse effects gentrification has on health, and provides a list of policies that would inhibit gentrification in order to prevent these impacts.
A story about gentrification and a complex father-daughter relationship.
A Vancouver man is putting his music dreams on hold to try to help save his city’s historic Chinatown from gentrification and soaring real estate prices.
Fifth, regarding affordable housing, the state could put a real estate transfer tax on the ballot; then use the proceeds to help pay for enough affordable housing to prevent gentrification.
However, with the onset of new construction, like that happening on the new National Geospatial Intelligence Agency campus in North City, comes the valid concerns of gentrification.
How many American will face “climate gentrification” and what will be done?
In the film, Jaime Reyes/Blue Beetle, played by Xolo Maridueña, takes a job at a wealthy CEO’s mansion to help his family, who’s losing their home amid gentrification-driven spikes in rent.
It had rare bipartisan support from progressives fighting gentrification and displacement in cities, and conservatives addressing blight in their rural districts.
Most of the O-I workers live elsewhere, a consequence, in part, Langlois said, of gentrification and sky-high real estate prices.
Opened by Jack and Rose Arnold in 1982, Arnold’s Country Kitchen’s steam tray fare has remained popular across demographics, especially as the city has faced rapid gentrification.
The Telegraph's 'seaside gentrification index' saw Margate take the seventh place spot overall with a very admirable rating of 69/100.
This isn’t the kind of film to watch for in-depth commentary on the area’s rapid gentrification.
We need state housing policy change to allow local control regarding rent and other anti-gentrification tools to further housing equity and social justice.
Ah, gentrification – the true villain of our time!
Among them: gentrification, displacement and traffic delays.
As Tanya Maria Golash-Boza describes in her 2023 book Before Gentrification: The Creation of DC’s Racial Wealth Gap, the reasons for this shift involve politics, racism, intentional displacement, and the policy of mass incarceration.
Buildings can, however, also create social divides, initiate place gentrification, and become disaster risk factors.
Common combinations with gentrification
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- of gentrification 27×
- the gentrification 24×
- gentrification and 21×
- gentrification in 15×
- gentrification of 12×
- and gentrification 12×
- about gentrification 9×
- gentrification is 9×
- gentrification has 8×
- gentrification process 8×