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The word “gentrification” gets thrown around a lot — but what does it actually mean? Here’s what one reader had to say about the term’s early days.

Comment of the Day

The British term “gentrification” wasn’t used in the country until about 10 years after its origin. I first saw it in the “Brownstoner” [not this site, obviously, but the newsletter of the old Brownstone Revival Committee]. The term was widely derided by “brownstoners”, people like me who were buying and renovating old city houses. We’ve learned a lot since, but gentrification then was far from today’s hyper-gentrification.

— Bob Marvin in What Is Gentrification, Anyway?

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