Gentrification and Filtering

Gentrification is the rehabilitation of deteriorated and often abandoned housing of low-income inner-city residents. It occurs when middle-class people move into deteriorated inner-city neighborhoods. They fix up the houses which causes families of higher class to want to move into the area.


Filtering, on the other hand, leads to the abandonment of housing. Large houses built by the wealthy in the 1800s are divided by landlords into smaller dwellings for low-income families. This results in abandoned dwellings. Families with lower incomes tend to live here, and families with higher incomes try to avoid these areas caused by filtering.