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Ghettofication 

The opposite of "gentrification." Disinvestment and the creation of deteriorated property caused by lower-income people slowly taking over and moving in to middle-class neighborhoods resulting in the flight of the former wealthier inhabitants.
In Detroit, a large proportion of ghettofied housing was originally built for middle and upper income occupants. As the process of ghettofication occurred this housing was increasingly occupied by lower income people. The ensuing disinvestment caused a spiral of decline in this former neighborhood of gentry as mansions were subdivided into several apartments with impoverished tenants. As ghettofication increased the houses were not maintained and blight engulfed the neighborhood.
Ghettofication by Dvorak April 17, 2006
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Ghettofication 

The opposite of "gentrification." It is the bombardment of lower classes slowly taking over and moving in to middle-class and affluent neighborhoods.
The temporary work agency located in the slums of town is recruting work for the jobs at my workplace in the more affluent side of town, causing a ghettofication of our workplace.
Ghettofication by Erick April 26, 2005

Ghettofication 

Ghettofication is the opposite of Gentrification. This is the act of horrible people, like Idaho Tweakers, Idaho homeless tweakers or generally any junked-up mental midget devoted to a life of emmotional immaturity and making America great again, moving into a community, town, city or state and turning it into a Ghetto.
There it is, further ghettofication, I see another RV with Idaho plates parking on the street, that makes it four RVs, Three Car houses and twenty cats.
Ghettofication by Riffled Folios October 16, 2018

Ghettofication 

Ghettofication ghet-to-fi-ca-tion (noun): The process by which a neighborhood, business or moral standards starts to decline due to a lack of care, leading to reduced standards and overall deterioration.

Author: JAyson CRoss
The fact that we are harping on presidential candidates' sexual history is proof of the ghettofication of politics.
Ghettofication by Curtis Davis July 28, 2024

Ghettofication 

Ghettofication (ghet-to-fi-ca-tion)
The process by which values start to decline due to lack of care, leading to reduced standards.
The fact that we are harping on presidential candidates' sexual history is proof of the ghettofication of politics.
Ghettofication by Curtis Davis July 29, 2024

Ghettoization

The process by which minority groups are forced out of the mainstream either physically or culturally.
Ghettoization of the Jews occurred during WW2 when they were forced to live in only specific areas.

Women's issues are ghettoized when spoken about as 'special interest' and 'marginal' even though they affect more than 50% of the population.
Ghettoization by ~Arianna August 21, 2008

ghettification

The process of making a non ghetto person into a ghetto person or a gangster
"Today is the day that Tommy will go through the process of ghettification"
ghettification by M.J. Weber February 28, 2008
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