People seem to feel very smart for pointing out things that look and feel like gentrification without actually really understanding what gentrification is. I found this article from a couple years back illuminating: <a href="https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-look-of-gentrification" rel="nofollow">https://darrellowens.substack.com/p/the-look-of-gentrificati...</a><p>> This conflation of modern architecture as a “gentrification style” was so common that low income builders began erecting signs explaining they were affordable housing.<p>Also, this article is frustrating because it’s explicitly just trying to make some clickbait out of a couple tweets the author saw, presumably from a random people who don’t know what they’re talking about.
Neutraface is easy to find but rather boring and cliche.<p>I went with custom house numbers in Adrian Frutiger’s Univers font from here:
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Ha.<p>From a UK perspective this looks like the opposite of gentrification (rich folk moving into the inner city), it's more like cookie cutter bargain basement build.