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Degentrification is when an area or neighborhood starts to gentrify so quickly that it does not 'organically' gentrify and certain elements of that process break down and begin to erode the process. (meaning, the process is too rapid to have ever happened over time, culturally and of its own accord.) In the case the north brooklyn, the gentrification has almost been forced or pushed by condo builders in order to sell condos offering incentives that they never had any intention of producing. When this happens, word spreads fast and those reasons which originally inspired people to move there become reversed and disappear.
Take a look at all of the condo buildings that have gone rental and you'll see degentrification at work.
by whalewail March 11, 2009
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When a certain area of Brooklyn was renamed "Greenwick," people began to consider moving there due to the clever tryvertising and artvertising by real estate agents.
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The term "home-free" includes the people whose primary daytime residence is in an institution that provides a residence for individuals intended to be institutionalized, or in a public or private place not designed for use as a regular sleeping conditions for human beings.
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I'm getting tired of reading about whether Wolfram Alpha is a GKiller. I've seen Stephen Wolfram's presentations a couple of times; he's quite careful to say that it isn't. Wolframization will never kill Googling.
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The term "home-o-phobic" applies to a person who chooses to be home-free because they see no reason to get a job, and thus choose to sleep in the street.
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