[tbrownaw]

> enough for people to begin displacing the incumbent community.

This means... what, that when someone moves out now the household that buys their old house has enough money that they choose that neighborhood by choice rather than necessity?

[alpinisme]

Typically gentrification at its simplest and most “popular” descriptive level is when people with more wealth move in and so property rates climb, and cost of living rises, and existing people in the community are no longer able to afford rent or other aspects of living there.