Our 2025 list from A to Z of everything that causes gentrification – City Observatory

The site of the former railway station of Tour & Taxis was bought at a very good price by a real estate developer. The promise made to the residents: we will put social housing and collective facilities. Finally, it is mainly huge towers of offices and luxury apartments that grow before the eyes of the inhabitants of the neighborhood.

Our 2025 list from A to Z of everything that causes gentrification – City Observatory

Gentrification:  Here’s your all-purpose list, from artists to zoning, of who and what’s to blame We first published this list in 2019, but the realm of suggested scapegoats has expanded, and now includes fire, gray paint, little libraries and microbreweries. When bad things happen, we look around for someone to blame.  And when it comes to gentrification, which is loosely defined as somebody not like you moving into your neighborhood, there’s n…