Gentrification:
noun. the buying and renovation of houses and stores in deteriorated urban neighborhoods by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses. – Dictionary.com
Gentrifier:
verb. to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses. – Dictionary.com

How TO Kill A CITY: Gentrification, Inequality, and the fight for the neighborhood
Book by Peter Moskowitz

Four types of Gentrifiers you see in your Neighborhood
Article by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch and Marc Lamont Hill
20 ways not to be a gentrifier
Article by Dannette Lambert

How to stop gentrification
Article by Colin Kinniburgh

There goes the Neighborhood
Podcast by WNYC Studios

Gentrifier
Book by John Joe Schlichtman, Jason Patch and Marc Lamont Hill

How the Unwilling gentrifier buys a home
Article by John Joe Schlichtman

Confessions of a reluctant gentrifier
Article by Eula Biss

Can community land trusts slow gentrification?
Article by Myungshik Choi