wasn't UC at one point in time already gentrified? my understanding was
that in the early part of the 20th century, this was a pretty ritzy place to
live. the house i live in now was, i believe, built as a single family
residence, but when i moved in, 9 years ago, it had been subdivided into
four apartments and there were 13 people living here. there were three women
living across the street, all in their 80's and 90's who said "this block
used to be so nice!"
University City -- was CREATED as a gentrified suburb when it was carved out of the surrounding farmland.
While many of the properties in the area were actually built as rental units, they were built as "up-scale" rental units, not "tenement" housing as you found in Center City. And in fact, many of those apartments, like those on Rittenhouse square were "whole floor" apartments; even though many of them have been cut up into multiple units themselves.
Most of the single family properties were cut up into apartments circa the 1950s. (i.e. post WWII).
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