As a European who lived in Woodstock and wrote with so much praise about it, I guess I am also part of the gentrification process. I don’t have the money to buy a house there, not even with my Euro’s, but I’ll probably still be able to afford rent, unlike families who have lived there for generations and are thrown out because they cannot pay the higher rents and are forced to live in Blikkiesdorp or other settlements. Or how gentrification is extra harsh in South Africa, compared to in Europe

• The gentrification of Woodstock: from rundown suburb to hipster heaven (article on theguardian.com)
• The gentrification of Woodstock and why I am moving out… (blog post by quietriotgirl)
• Making a Place for the Rich? Urban Poor Evictions and Gentrification in Woodstock, South Africa (academic paper at Andrew Fleming, 2011)
• Inner city gentrification in South Africa: the case of Woodstock, Cape Town (academic paper from 1993)