degentrification
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Noun[edit]
degentrification (uncountable)
- The reverse process of gentrification, such that a residential area previously only affordable to affluent people becomes affordable to those who are poorer.
- 2013, Loretta Lees, Tom Slater, Elvin Wyly, Gentrification:
- Prophesies of degentrification appear to have been overstated as many neighborhoods continue to gentrify while others, further from the city center begin to experience the process for the first time.