Question

You have been given the floor for three minutes at a city council meeting. Write a brief speech on the topic of gentrification using what you have learned in this lesson and the articles you analyzed explaining whether you think gentrification is helpful or harmful and why. You should support your argument with at least two specific examples.

Answer 1

Answer: Gentrification could be described as the occupation of a residents which might not be too wealthy before by influential and wealthy persons causing development and a rise to the cost of living there.

Explanation:

Gentrification could be described as the occupation of a residents which might not be too wealthy before by influential and wealthy persons causing development and a rise to the cost of living there. These is experienced in poor urban areas.

To a great extent gentrification is a good thing as it raises the value of property in the environment, bringing business and development. It's of a good advantage for those who possess properties there and also opening up the area for investment, the only bad side to it is that it pushes away those who can't meet up out of the environment due to the high rate houses and cost of living.