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Table 1 This table lists the words used in the listing neighborhood description sorted by the words’ “poverty”, defined as the average share of the households living in poverty in the neighborhood, according to the ACS definition, in which the word is used over all word occurrences. Left half of this table shows the “richest” words, and the right half shows the “poorest” words. Place and person names were removed, and only words occurring more than 100 times are included. These are split between content appearing in hosts’ neighborhood descriptions, and in guest reviews. “Nr” shows the number of occurrences. “Pov” shows the average rate of households living below the poverty line in the neighborhoods where the word is used

From: Platform placemaking and the digital urban culture of Airbnbification

“Richest” words

“Poorest” words

Description

Pov

Nr

Reviews

Pov

Nr

Descriptions

Pov

Nr

Reviews

Pov

Nr

luxury

9.6

535

theatres

6.7

373

barrio

26.1

103

murals

23.5

102

theaters

9.7

129

theaters

7.1

716

murals

24.3

178

gentrification

23.5

217

designer

10.1

173

doormen

7.7

740

generations

22.8

109

graffiti

23.5

244

promenade

10.1

168

promenade

8.2

417

changing

22.1

184

latino

23.3

268

comedy

10.1

396

museums

10.0

2,301

gentrifying

22.1

101

jewish

23.2

157

metropolitan

10.8

119

centrally

11.2

4,026

police

22.0

210

spanish

23.1

909

finest

11.2

226

district

11.2

3,921

artist

21.8

205

hispanic

22.9

178

desirable

11.2

279

gay

11.2

108

soul

21.6

251

gentrified

22.0

386

greek

11.4

206

nespresso

11.3

323

gentrification

21.6

144

intimidating

22.0

283

cobble

11.4

165

landmarks

11.4

390

bodegas

21.6

342

dominican

21.9

217

stone

11.5

182

memorial

11.5

671

colorful

21.6

104

habitants

21.7

147

sightseeing

11.6

106

unbeatable

12.1

1,269

gentrified

21.0

133

danger

21.5

189

safest

11.6

281

shopping

12.2

10,014

caribbean

21.0

508

dodgy

21.4

151

tourist

11.7

415

attractions

12.2

5,939

social

20.8

164

african

21.4

152

choice

11.7

119

fingertips

12.3

218

gallery

20.8

213

unsafe

21.4

1,845

european

11.7

130

wholefoods

12.3

294

black

20.8

180

sketchy

21.1

871