gentro

Slang for gentrification, a.k.a. revitalization or urban renewal. The term 'gentro' is most often used by those *opposed* to either the concept, the process, or a specific gentrification project. Those who benefit from gentrification rarely call it gentro (except maybe as a joke).

Damn, I can't live in the city anymore - gentro is wiping out all the affordable apartments!
Gentro? There goes the hood!

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gentros

A pejorative term for people who moved into your neighborhood. Their very presence makes your rent higher. And they call the police on the wrong people.

Those gentros just called the police on the day laborers who hang out on the corner! Those day laborers might get loud and a little drunk but if they didn't hang out there all day, the drug dealers and homeless would take that corner. Those fuck'n gentros should go back where they came from!