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.
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Jc Reindl,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Sep. 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.
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Norman Vanamee,
Town & Country,
27 July 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).
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Elizabeth Isadora Gold,
Longreads,
2 Oct. 2020
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Jc Reindl,
Detroit Free Press,
27 Sep. 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
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 6 Jul. 2026.
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