Comfort Quote by Ashley Walters

“The hipster narrative about gentrification isn’t necessarily inaccurate—young people are indeed moving to cities and opening craft breweries and wearing tight clothing—but it is…

— Peter Moskowitz

Gentrification is stripping people not only of their homes but also of their dignity and their lives, and it is effectively whitening public spaces.

— Anthea Butler

Gentrification can be a plague, as it eats up neighborhoods.

— Gordon Quinn

This thing is such a ripple, the way lives are affected by gentrification. On one hand, yes, you're cleaning up this area, you're making…

— Brian Azzarello

I think there are some very evil things about gentrification.

— Jim McKay

Gentrification is real.

— Francis X. Suarez

Gentrification is a problem of poor planning.

— Aja Brown

My take on gentrification and change is it's usually always a better thing, because when you see all these businesses open and flourishing, that…

— George Pelecanos

“Gentrification is key to understanding what happened to our cities at the turn of the millennium. But it is only half of the story.…

— Jeff Chang

Some people are afraid of gentrification, but what I see is young people want to live in a different world. And they see possibilities…

— Grace Lee Boggs

We need to define gentrification as separate from the process of displacement.

— Justin Davidson

You know, I personally think that gentrification happens long before you start seeing white people in formerly people-of-color neighborhoods. It starts happening when we…

— Majora Carter