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
It is with a heavy heart that I have come to the conclusion that we should probably start gentrifying the Tenderloin sometime soon here....
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 stock is affordable to average people, and prices are rising at such astronomical rates that even the middle class is being priced out of the city....
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 became “intentionally homeless.” I’m in my mid-30s and college educated....
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 where people would go to find their true selves....
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 cornucopia of diversity gathered within....
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 post just won’t budge....
These Are the Faces of San Francisco’s Homelessness Crisis
The greatest power of the photograph is its ability to pause time. Things that we would not dare stare at for more than a fleeting moment are made still by the shutter — frozen in a moment, forever, compelling us to return to them again and again....