Two cheers for gentrification

Two cheers for gentrification

Gentrification: what is it good for? If you were to ask this question on the average college campus, there’s a decent chance you’d get immediately pelted with tomatoes, but it’s worth asking anyway. Before we can answer it, however, we must first define our terms. To the extent that everyone can agree on what it means, gentrification denotes the process whereby a neighborhood’s character changes. This most often refers to demographics, more spec…