Poor Students, Rich Landlords: How Santa Cruz’s Housing Shortage Turned into a Crisis
What do you get when you mix a university’s blind eye with greedy landlords who prey on naïve students?...
GentrificationA collection of 56 posts
Happy Birthday, Harvey Milk! Here’s What Could Have Been
Milk championed a progressive anti-speculation tax that was only recently made public. If not for his untimely death, it may have radically slowed the gentrification of San Francisco....
We Asked Bay Area Residents Where Gentrifiers Hang Out
Probably right next to you...
We Asked Techies to Share the Most Frivolous, Absurd Things They’ve Seen at Their Start-ups
Start-ups are adept at wasting investors’ money and creating divas out of their employees....
The Border Wall in Your Restaurant
There’s a huge racial divide between “front of house” and “back of house” that we need to talk about....
I Guess We Have to Gentrify the Tenderloin Now
By Lauren Thomas It is with a heavy heart that I have come to the conclusion that we should probably...
Want to Solve the San Francisco Housing Crisis? Reinvest in Public Housing
The housing market in San Francisco has been called the “least affordable in the nation.” Only 15% of the housing...
Why I Became Intentionally Homeless in San Francisco
Looking at me, you’d never guess that in 2015, while working full-time as a reporter for KGO Radio, I...
Dear Artists: San Francisco Doesn’t Deserve You
As a kid growing up in the East Bay, I always regarded San Francisco as a kind of magical place...
Is This the Most Diverse Place in the History of the World Ever?
I was munching on yucca fries at Cholita Linda one evening, and I couldn’t help but marvel at the...
Inside the Berkeley Bike Co-Op Getting Evicted for Condos
Bill Sparks has a bike frame upside down in a vice. He grips, pulls and tries again, but the seat...
These Are the Faces of San Francisco’s Homelessness Crisis
Photography by Phoebe Heaton / Text by Keith A. Spencer The greatest power of the photograph is its ability to pause...