> I suppose there's a big difference between intentionally driving people out to replace them, and it being an unintentional side effect of all sorts of stuff t

> I suppose there's a big difference between intentionally driving people out to replace them, and it being an unintentional side effect of all sorts of stuff that's going on. It was my impression that the problems with gentrification are generally of the second type, but your comment makes it sound like this is being done intentionally. In some neighborhoods, it truly is a campaign to drive out the existing residents ("orchestrated a campaign of 'polite harassment' / "bought out tenants apartments from their landlords") http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/04/neighbors_who_fought_to_reclai.html http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2011/04/nei...