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Gentrification vs Gentrifier - What's the difference?

gentrification | gentrifier |

As nouns the difference between gentrification and gentrifier

is that gentrification is the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents while gentrifier is an agent of gentrification.

gentrification

English

(wikipedia gentrification)

Noun

(en noun)
  • The process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents.

    • Related terms

    * degentrification

    See also

    * gentrify * gentry

    gentrifier

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • An agent of gentrification
  • *{{quote-news, 2009, January 2, Ben Sisario, Out With the Knit, in With the Wine, New York Times citation
    • , passage=This real-estate drama, however, has a twist: one of the area's gentrifiers is a stylish new restaurant and performance space opened by Michael Dorf, the founder of the Knitting Factory. }}