Getting rid of all the ugliness to create a false sense of paradise can be attributed to gentrification through the eyes of the longtime residents being displaced from their homes due to rent increases (due to cities’ renovation of undesirable districts). The renovation of the cites being gentrified attracts the upper-middle class and the wealthy to move in, since it’s cheaper than living in a desirable city, which creates a wage-gap between the longtime locals and the people moving in. Gentrification has happened all over the world, from cities like London to Melbourne to New York (just to name a few). Gentrification is happening today. It is a growing concern for lower-income longtime residents of cities experiencing gentrification/renovations, whether due to housing developments or big business because it attracts wealthier people from all over the globe to move into the gentrifies cities. …show more content…
That's nothing new. For example, my hometown was predominantly a white middle-class suburb until the 1970s. After the demographic shifted to an African-American city from the 1970s to 1990s. Since the 1990s my hometown's demographics are predominantly Latino. Did my city experience gentrification? In the sense of the definition, my city did not experience gentrification because certain districts or houses were not renovated to comfort to a middle-class taste. Sure, the demographics did change since the city's residents changed, but the residents were not displaced by evictions or high rent. The residents moved out through no fault of renovations or housing developments. Demographic change is just a change in the demographics that cities experience through time, while gentrification is seen more of an economic shift cities