Gentrification can be broadly defined as the process of transforming lower-and working-
class inner-city housing areas into middle-and upper-class neighborhoods. My study
focuses on the mechanisms of this process in post-socialist Eastern Europe, highlighting the
similarities and differences to capitalist societies. I suggest that in order to understand
gentrification in Eastern Europe and especially in Romania, one has to pay close attention to
changes in property rights. Gentrification unfolds during or before the period when a high …