Heavy with Gentrification, by Fermín Villar

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Day yes day we also read or hear about the gentrification of our cities. The word in question, with normative validity in Spanish and Catalan since 2023, is used to explain the changes of profile of the residents of certain neighborhoods, mainly after a urban improvement or when becoming fashionable among wealthy people. The advantage of using gentrification instead of some similar term not borrowed is that, being an adaptation of gentrify, we c…