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分析：

考察的是城市结构和发展中的一个重要问题—gentrification。需要结合gentrification是什么类型的人进行的什么活动产生什么影响来作答，比如抬高房价、增加税费等。

解答：

A.One positive impact is that gentrification may increase the property value. The community’s social elites maintain the inner-city neighborhoods as enclaves of expensive property.

Another positive impact of gentrification is a beautiful urban neighborhood. Because gentrification could increase the taxes, the city uses the expanded tax revenue to build parks.

B.The first negative impact is that people with lower incomes are forced to move out of the gentrified neighborhoods because the rents in the area suddenly become too high for them.

The second negative impact is that middle and upper classes may replace low-income population and change the social character of certain neighborhoods. So the result of gentrification may lead to social conflicts.

C.City governments are renovating old houses specifically for lower-income families through public housing. By renting renovated the houses, a city could help to disperse low-income families throughout the city instead of concentrating them in large inner-cityneighborhoods.