gentrifications

Noun

gentrification (countable and uncountable, plural gentrifications)

1. (urban studies) The renewal and rebuilding that accompanies the influx of middle class or affluent people into deteriorating areas and often displaces earlier, usually poorer, residents; any example of such a process.
   • Labour's manifesto contains the wild promise of 'war on the private landlord,' but this may conceal a real determination to use the powers of compulsory purchase to prevent the existing residents of places like North Kensington being driven out by the twin forces of 'gentrification' and development.1973 April 8, Jeremy Bugler, “Tomorrow's London”, in The Observer, London, retrieved 12 Sep 2016, page 13
2. A geographical area that is gradually becoming prosperous due to investment.