He started an urban-renewal program to gentrify blighted areas of Guayaquil's center. In the 1990s and 2000s the neighborhood started to gentrify. In the 21st century, crime rates decreased significantly, and Harlem started to gentrify. Originally a working class neighbourhood, Petite-Patrie began to gentrify in the early twenty-first century. After a period of decline, the neighborhood started to gentrify in the 1980s and 1990s. In America it is mostly associated with upper-middle-class white young adults who gentrify urban areas. Some sections began to gentrify, to varying degrees, at the turn of the 21st century. There are plans to gentrify the area, but little progress has been seen. "Project 1012" was put into force to gentrify the red-light district. Although now it is starting to gentrify particularly on its western and southern edges.