Gentrification

[Becky]

When a bunch of white people move to the ghetto and open up a bunch of cup cake shops

[Justin Bieber]

When uppity white people move into a ghetto and take over the real estate, which fucks over the current residents. Usually followed by the opening of a shit ton of Starbucks, Nordstroms, and Whole Foods.

[Becky]

A buzzword uttered mostly by those who are outraged that improving a neighborhood means people will spend more money to live in it.

[Sonia]

Oppression of the professional victim class by Da Man.

[Becky]

a racist term used by hispanics to express displeasure over having a white person living near them.

[Dorothey Allen]

when [housing] prices in a neighborhood [go up] because a bunch of [hipsters] moved in

[Merna]

When you buy a house that hasn’t been [painted] in 30 years and finally put some [paint] on [that thing].

[Luis Fok]

The act of increasing the quality of a crap neighborhood to livable, sanitary conditions, thereby removing the property value from the toilet and basically [polishing a turd]. Racists hate it because it typically means more of the evil, oppressive [Equinsu Ocha], and criminals hate it because crime rates typically plummet. The parasite class is sometimes resultingly displaced in favor of the working middle-class. An unfortunately occasional by-product of [gentrification] is an increase in a liberal presence which benefits nobody.

[Tanya Shivari]

A term used by those who are intellectually impaired to try and negatively label the positive progress which is renovation of local [infrastructure] in an urban area while still having access to high end amenities like [Wi-Fi], Double-shot [Mocha Lattes] and of course, social media apps.

[Couch Potatoe]

The process of renovating and improving housing or a district so that it conforms to middle-class taste.