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Gentrification is marked by changing demographics and, thus changing social order and norms. In some cases, when affluent households move into a working-class community of residents (often primarily Black or Latino communities), the new residents' different perceptions of acceptable neighborhood behavior and cultural activity of pre-existing residents may be in conflict with the established ...
Gentrification with a typical ranch house side by side with a bauhaus house in Dallas, Texas in 2020. Gentrification is the process whereby the character of a neighborhood changes through the influx of more affluent residents (the "gentry") and investment. [1] [2] There is no agreed-upon definition of gentrification.
Environmental gentrification is commonly understood as the process in which urban green space improvements lead to the displacement of lower-income communities, although the exact definition remains a topic of debate. [10] Green gentrification is closely related to urban planning and climate mitigation efforts.
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San Francisco has had the largest decrease in black population, 23 percent from 1990 to 2000, [4] but Oakland, Los Angeles and San Diego also have had losses. In Los Angeles , the percentage of population that is black has dropped by half to 9.9% since 1970, a proportion that also reflects recent increased Hispanic and Asian immigration.
As income inequality grows and affluent renters spread into previously marginal neighborhoods, the poor are being pushed out. Radical opponents of gentrification are taking to the streets in protest.
Gentrification has notably changed most of Houston's historically black neighborhoods, especially those within Loop 610 and near Downtown Houston. Rising housing costs coupled with a housing shortage have displaced some black residents and deterred some new black residents from moving in.
San Antonio (/ ˌ s æ n æ n ˈ t oʊ n i oʊ / SAN an-TOH-nee-oh; Spanish for "Saint Anthony") is a city in the U.S. state of Texas and the most populous city in Greater San Antonio, the third-largest metropolitan area in Texas and the 24th-largest metropolitan area in the United States at 2.6 million people in the 2020 U.S. census. [12]