ungentrified
adjective
un·gen·tri·fied
ˌən-ˈjen-trə-ˌfīd 
: not altered by gentrification : not gentrified
… a two-month-old shop on one of the last ungentrified stretches in SoHo …—
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Yet Detroit has a lot of such sales, in part because appraisals for houses in ungentrified areas of the city can still be too low to qualify for mortgages.
—Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2022
What happened to the scrappy pop-ups that forced only those in the know to visit an ungentrified neighborhood and find a space sometimes without a visible address, or go to an up-and-coming area’s back alley for a drop, where the journey of finding the location was part of the experience.
—Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
It’s also not being by driven by brazen youths storming ungentrified territory to enact some mythological version of bohemia or the art market, which continues to maintain its pieds-à-terre in New York and Los Angeles.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
Sedgwick was raised during a pre-helicopter moment in parenting that turned many Manhattan kids (including rich ones like him) loose on a still ungentrified city.
—Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 27 July 2021
At the time, the neighborhood was largely ungentrified and had a bohemian vibe, all of which Mr. Larson aimed to capture.
—Charles Passy, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2021
In the early ’80s, Olde City was still an ungentrified neighborhood of warehouses and factories beginning to close shop and Colonial-era historic sites (spruced up for the recent Bicentennial).
—Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
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Jc Reindl, Detroit Free Press, 27 Sep. 2022
What happened to the scrappy pop-ups that forced only those in the know to visit an ungentrified neighborhood and find a space sometimes without a visible address, or go to an up-and-coming area’s back alley for a drop, where the journey of finding the location was part of the experience.
—Sharon Edelson, Forbes, 18 Aug. 2022
It’s also not being by driven by brazen youths storming ungentrified territory to enact some mythological version of bohemia or the art market, which continues to maintain its pieds-à-terre in New York and Los Angeles.
—Harper's BAZAAR, 12 Dec. 2022
Sedgwick was raised during a pre-helicopter moment in parenting that turned many Manhattan kids (including rich ones like him) loose on a still ungentrified city.
—Norman Vanamee, Town & Country, 27 July 2021
At the time, the neighborhood was largely ungentrified and had a bohemian vibe, all of which Mr. Larson aimed to capture.
—Charles Passy, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2021
In the early ’80s, Olde City was still an ungentrified neighborhood of warehouses and factories beginning to close shop and Colonial-era historic sites (spruced up for the recent Bicentennial).
—Elizabeth Isadora Gold, Longreads, 2 Oct. 2020
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“Ungentrified.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ungentrified. Accessed 21 Dec. 2024.
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