ATDTDA (17): "newer tenants continued to move in" (460.23-24)

[Tim Strzechowski]

[...] The foundations had gone on crumbling back to pebbles and dust, and rain leaked in everywhere.  Little or no heat in the place, floorboards not quite level.  And yet the rent here, he heard the people complain, kept getting higher each month, newer tenants continued to move in, earning more and eating better, as the place filled up with factory reps, real-estate salesmen, drummers of weaponry and medical supplies, linemen, water and road engineers ..." (pp. 460 - 61).

 
Main Entry: gen·tri·fi·ca·tion 

Pronunciation: "jen-tr&-f&-'kA-sh&n

Function: noun

: the process of renewal and rebuilding accompanying the influx of middle-class or affluent people into deteriorating areas that often displaces earlier usually poorer residents 
 
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?gentrification
 

[...]  Gentrification is a general term for the arrival of wealthier people in an existing urban district, a related increase in rents and property values, and changes in the district's character and culture. The term is often used negatively, suggesting the displacement of poor communities by rich outsiders. But the effects of gentrification are complex and contradictory, and its real impact varies. 

Many aspects of the gentrification process are desirable. Who wouldn't want to see reduced crime, new investment in buildings and infrastructure, and increased economic activity in their neighborhoods? Unfortunately, the benefits of these changes are often enjoyed disproportionately by the new arrivals, while the established residents find themselves economically and socially marginalized. 

Gentrification has been the cause of painful conflict in many American cities, often along racial and economic fault lines. Neighborhood change is often viewed as a miscarriage of social justice, in which wealthy, usually white, newcomers are congratulated for "improving" a neighborhood whose poor, minority residents are displaced by skyrocketing rents and economic change. 

Although there is not a clear-cut technical definition of gentrification, it is characterized by several changes. [...]

http://www.pbs.org/pov/pov2003/flagwars/special_gentrification.html