[tet68]

Gentrification just means ripe fruit.
Careless yuppies mean lots of loot.

Seen it happen.

[tanknetter]

Gentrification just means ripe fruit.

There's more to it than that. There's a genuine hatred of gentrifiers in a lot of gentrifying neighborhoods. They come in, drive up prices and the costs of living (including where property taxes are set according to appraised land/structure values) and in doing so break up and drive the existing (and invariably lower-income minority) communities out.