ABSTRACT
All over the world, the cost of urban housing is soaring to unprecedented heights, displacing entire communities in the process. Regrettably, however, little has been written thus far by philosophers on this increasingly urgent social problem: the problem of gentrification. After briefly defining gentrification, I give a cursory overview of how the history of philosophy bears on this topic. After surveying contemporary philosophical work on gentrification, I show how future work on the subject might advance by availing itself of resources in critical philosophy of race, egalitarianism, and democratic theory.
