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Gentrification

Gentrification is when businesses and homes are built in shitty, run-down neighbourhoods, which means the people who live there will actually have to work for a living if they want to pay the rent instead of beating up and mugging old ladies.
Hey man, you can't mess with our hood, that's gentrification! Wait, you're leaving? That's white flight, you stupid ass crackkka! Racist!
by Palladium1 October 22, 2022
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gentrification

when housing prices in a neighborhood go up because a bunch of hipsters moved in
Bro, I can't afford the new fancy coffee shop, I can't even pay my rent cause of all the gentrification
by cupcakesanon September 10, 2019
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Reverse Gentrification

When city council displaces renters to house the homeless. Akin to free energy proponents believe that making people homeless will solve homelessness.

Imminent signs of Reverse Gentrification include large encampments of tents and homeless people at parks or other public locations, that move elected officials to buy your rental homes to solve the problem.

Usually results in urban charm to your neighborhood. You can expect frequent visits from police, fire department and other first responders.
Tenant1: We all got notice to vacate and I'm not sure we can stay in the area.
Tenant2: No worries. I hear Reverse Gentrification is helping out folks like us.

Council1: I got a great idea, let's buy homes to shelter homeless!
Council2: Displace people to house people, you mean Reverse Gentrification?
Council1: Yes...And we could harness free energy to pay the utilities!
Council2: Aren't we smart!
by YOMMA5G January 15, 2020
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Bentrification

The appropriating and reclaiming of historically cis/het forms of media. Often with a view to including other sexualities and genders, or creating an exclusively LGBT+ space.
I love the bentrification of country music, especially Lil Nas X and Orville Peck
by Ridethewind May 12, 2021
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gentrification mullet

An intentionally ugly mullet that is popular with hipsters who are romantasizing being poor but actually have money.
"You know your rent is going up when those gentrification mullet folks pull up to your neighbourhood."
by scorpioscorpio February 17, 2021
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mentrification

The process by which fields gradually becoming dominated by men gain in perceived value, to the point where it's often forgotten that they were originally dominated by women (e.g. computers, Star Trek fandom); and by which fields gradually becoming dominated by women lose perceived value, to the point where it's often forgotten that they were originally dominated by men (e.g. nursing, secretarial work).

A play on the word "gentrification."
Nursing has suffered some serious mentrification for people to forget that it used to be mostly men!
by spacedunce5 May 22, 2019
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gentrification

A buzzword uttered mostly by those who are outraged that improving a neighborhood means people will spend more money to live in it.
- What's happened to all the bums that used to hang around here?

- Gentrification, man. Getting worse by the day.
by user565322 December 11, 2016
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