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What Is Gentrification

Gentrification is defined as higher-income people moving into a working-class urban neighborhood, increasing rents and property values. This causes changes to the neighborhood's character and culture. While some effects like reduced crime and new investment are desirable, long-time residents often cannot afford the increased costs and are displaced. Gentrification is characterized by an influx of young professionals and couples, higher rents and home prices, conversion of housing to condos, and development of luxury homes and businesses that change the neighborhood's identity.

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What Is Gentrification

Gentrification is defined as higher-income people moving into a working-class urban neighborhood, increasing rents and property values. This causes changes to the neighborhood's character and culture. While some effects like reduced crime and new investment are desirable, long-time residents often cannot afford the increased costs and are displaced. Gentrification is characterized by an influx of young professionals and couples, higher rents and home prices, conversion of housing to condos, and development of luxury homes and businesses that change the neighborhood's identity.

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What is Gentrification?

Gentrification is a general term for the arrival of higher-income


people in an existing working-class urban district, causing a
related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the
district’s character and culture. The term is often used negatively,
suggesting the displacement of low-income communities by
affluent outsiders. But the effects of gentrification are complex
and contradictory, and its real impact varies.

Many aspects of the gentrification process are desirable. Who


wouldn’t want to see reduced crime, new investment in buildings
and infrastructure, and increased economic activity in their
neighborhoods? Unfortunately, the benefits of these changes are
often enjoyed disproportionately by the new arrivals, while the
established residents find themselves economically and socially
marginalized.

Although there is not a clear-cut technical definition of


gentrification, it is characterized by several changes:

 Demographics: An increase in median income, a decline in


the proportion of ethnic minorities, and a reduction in
household size, as low-income families are replaced by
young singles and couples.
 Real estate markets: Large increases in rents and home
prices, increases in the number of evictions, conversion of
rental units to ownership (condos) and new development of
luxury housing.
 Land use: A decline in industrial uses, an increase in office
or multimedia uses, the development of live-work “lofts”
and high-end housing, retail, and restaurants.
 Culture and character: New ideas about what is desirable
and attractive, including standards (either informal or legal)
for architecture, landscaping, public behavior, noise, and
nuisance.

(http://archive.pov.org. Adaptado.)

Questão 1

a) Como a pergunta do título do texto é respondida no primeiro


parágrafo? Quais consequências da gentrificação para o mercado
imobiliário são citadas no primeiro parágrafo?

b) De acordo com o primeiro parágrafo, por que o termo


gentrificação pode ter conotação negativa? Qual ponto de vista é
apresentado sobre isso no primeiro parágrafo?

Questão 2

a) De acordo com as informações apresentadas no segundo


parágrafo, cite dois aspectos positivos da gentrificação.

b) O final do segundo parágrafo apresenta uma contradição


sobre os benefícios da gentrificação. Qual é essa contradição?

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