Meaning & use
Regentrification
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A renewed or second wave of gentrification affecting a neighborhood that had already undergone the process once before.
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Urban researchers are tracking regentrification in districts that cooled off after the last housing boom.
Longtime residents feared regentrification would price them out a second time.
A note on using this word
The term is a fairly recent coinage in urban studies, describing cycles of neighborhood change rather than a single one-time shift.
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