system
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human
Are there examples of urban gentrification that also increased the standard of living for that city's lower class residents?
gpt
Check out "There Goes the Hood" by Lance Freeman - an excellent qualitative study of gentrification in New York City.

"This book argues that indigenous residents do not necessarily react to
gentrification according to some of the preconceived notions generally
attributed to residents of these neighborhoods....Residents of the ’hood are sometimes more receptive because gentrification brings their neighborhoods into the mainstream of American commercial life with concomitant amenities and services that others might
take for granted. It also represents the possibility of achieving upward
mobility without having to escape to the suburbs or predominantly white neighborhoods. These are benefits of gentrification typically not recognized in the scholarly literature."