In Taking Back Urban Areas, Latinos Are Causing A ‘Gente-fication’ Across The U.S.

By Soni Sangha, Fox News Latino

Lincoln Heights is the kind of place where you might hang out with your neighbors on a warm day, drinking in the stunning views of downtown Los Angeles. But it’s also the kind of place where, just a few weeks ago, a SWAT team descended freeing hostages who had been taken prisoner in their home by four armed invaders.

A growing number of upwardly mobile Latinos would rather take the good and bad of Lincoln Heights than idyllic suburbs, in a trend that some refer to as “gente-fication” (as in “gente,” Spanish for “people”) This movement of Latinos returning to long standing urban neighborhoods is most noteworthy in Los Angeles, but as the Latino population grows more educated and wealthier it is repeating itself in a variety of cities across the country, such as Houston, Phoenix and Washington Heights, in New York City.

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