I think gentrification is simply a vague way to put a face on something people don't like: because of fluctuating wages and rents, people are often forced to le

I think gentrification is simply a vague way to put a face on something people don't like: because of fluctuating wages and rents, people are often forced to leave their communities and homes. People notice the gentrification side of it, because it involves a lot of large and imposing buildings, visible cultural artefacts, etc - and they notice the most extreme examples of it - refugees, etc. There's no clear discourse about the vast middle ground, which is much more ambiguous but also much more impactful - that because the right to live in a place is subject to market forces, and because availability of work moves, it's vanishingly unlikely that any but the richest will be able to live in a stable geographical community for more than a handful of years.