Knieriem, Lagendijk and van Leeuwen shift the analysis of gentrification from displacement as relocation to displacement as moral injury. The iconic idea of the article is misrecognition: inhabitants experience redevelopment not only as spatial loss, but as intersubjective disregard, humiliation, civic erasure and denial of standing. Its theoretical contribution is to join critical urban geography with recognition theory, showing that gentrification produces multiple wrongs that exceed housing market substitution. Methodologically, the work grounds its argument in interviews with residents living through demolition and transformation in Rotterdam’s Tweebosbuurt, allowing injustice to appear through narrated experience rather than through price data alone. Its conceptual operation is moral thickening: urban change is read as a process that reorganises dignity, voice and protest. The bridge to the wider field lies in its connection between housing studies, political theory, affective geography and urban resistance.