Sentences with phrase «gentrifying forces»

Born in the mid-late 2000s as its older sister Williamsburg to the West began to professionalize, this noisily industrial, dirty artist haven got a reprieve from gentrifying forces when the deep recession slowed the rise of rents for artist spaces, which remained still relatively cheap by Manhattan's standards.

James Cohan symbolizes the gentrifying force that has spread throughout Chinatown.

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In the rapidly changing and gentrifying neighborhoods of Los Angeles, Martinez finds connections between the precarious foundations of home for families targeted by immigration policies and speculative real estate markets, and the physical signifiers of forced displacement and exclusion such as «gentrification fences» and border walls.

Those forces prompted them into the «sharing economy» — living with roommates, or their parents or relatives — in gentrifying areas downtown.