What is gentrification?
According to Google, gentrification is the process whereby the character of a poor urban area is changed by wealthier people moving in, improving housing, and attracting new businesses, typically displacing current inhabitants in the process.
Chloe believes that gentrification is the replacing of current inhabitants, with wealthy new businesses. These changes leave a loss of original historic culture.
Alex believes that gentrification is when a community is revitalized in a way that helps the economy and those who can afford higher rent prices while taking away from the community's roots and originality.
Xin Yi believes that gentrification is the next level of urbanization in which includes interchanging cultural and traditional characteristics factors of community areas displacement.