This document summarizes a study on the psychosocial consequences of gentrification in communities in Valparaíso, Chile. The study examined changes in mental and psychosocial processes in a community affected by gentrification, which forced lower-income families to move from their neighborhoods to nearby cities. Through interviews, surveys, fieldwork and theory, the study found that gentrification-caused displacement mainly affected lower-income families, who faced challenges including community resentment, conflicts in new neighborhoods, and uncertainty about the future, in addition to the psychological costs of displacement.
This document summarizes a study on the psychosocial consequences of gentrification in communities in Valparaíso, Chile. The study examined changes in mental and psychosocial processes in a community affected by gentrification, which forced lower-income families to move from their neighborhoods to nearby cities. Through interviews, surveys, fieldwork and theory, the study found that gentrification-caused displacement mainly affected lower-income families, who faced challenges including community resentment, conflicts in new neighborhoods, and uncertainty about the future, in addition to the psychological costs of displacement.
This document summarizes a study on the psychosocial consequences of gentrification in communities in Valparaíso, Chile. The study examined changes in mental and psychosocial processes in a community affected by gentrification, which forced lower-income families to move from their neighborhoods to nearby cities. Through interviews, surveys, fieldwork and theory, the study found that gentrification-caused displacement mainly affected lower-income families, who faced challenges including community resentment, conflicts in new neighborhoods, and uncertainty about the future, in addition to the psychological costs of displacement.
Gentrifications psychosocial consequences in communities from
Valparaso, Chile.
Gentrification is a process of renovation of deteriorated urban neighborhoods by
means of the influx of more affluent residents. This study aims to study diverse changes or variations in the mental and psychosocial processes from a part of a migratory affected by this global process of changes means the gentrification. The object of study was a community from Valparaso, Chile that had to move from their neighborhoods to near cities where their development means a rough new start. Through a mixed methodological approach the study was based and argued by methodologies as interviews, surveys, field investigations and theoretical resources. Across this study we identifies the community displacement caused by gentrification affects mainly to lower-income families, where these must face unique challenges in new contexts as community resentment, conflicts in the new neighborhoods, get on uncertainty future in addition to psychological cost for the displacement.