What is gentrification, and how could it have contributed to the tragic events at Grenfell Tower in June 2017?
In 2017 more than 80 people were killed in the Grenfell Tower fire. Some media reports at the time argued that gentrification was partly to blame for the tragedy, which occurred at the edge of London’s fashionable Notting Hill area. Gentrification occurs when affluent people and new investment flow into a place. One result can be the displacement of poorer residents.
Is this what happened to the residents of Grenfell Tower? In order to assess this claim, we need first to explore how gentrification works.
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