gentrification Archives

Lit

On Polk Street and in the Tenderloin, a family of hustlers and priests

Marke B. - March 15, 2023

Joseph Plaster's new book 'Kids on the Street' looks at the history of queer sex work and kinship in San Francisco

Environment

The tragic toxic legacy of the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard

Tom Molanphy - March 1, 2023

Aided by a USC fellowship, reporter Tom Molanphy and 48hills dug into the overwhelming history of data concerning the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard, which...

Stage Review

Culture on the precipice of gentrification in ‘Paradise Blue’

Charles Lewis III - February 6, 2023

Dominique Morisseau's latest Detroit Cycle addition at Aurora Theatre highlights jazz as Black community safe space

Business + Tech

What the new AI says about the Yimby movement and agenda

Tim Redmond - January 16, 2023

You can make it argue almost anything, and it's alarmingly cogent. Here's an example.

Development

Is gentrification an environmental impact?

Tim Redmond - December 29, 2022

The battle over People’s Park has been raging since I was in sixth grade, and we could spend a huge amount of time talking...

Housing

City study completely ignores the reality of gentrification and displacement

Tim Redmond - December 7, 2022

Report on 469 Stevenson misses the point as planners reconsider controversial housing development.

Lit

In ‘Tell Us When to Go,’ friendship riven by Web 2.0’s gentrification and fantasy

Jeremy Mann - November 20, 2022

Emil DeAndreis’ novel tells the story of two former baseball teammates navigating the city's growing divide

Housing

Community advocates push for major changes in city housing plan

Tim Redmond - November 16, 2022

Extraordinary hearing shows that Housing Element won't work—and Newsom Administration just wants to help real-estate interests make money.

Stage Review

A hot splash of Viêt history in ‘Colonialism is Terrible, but Phở is Delicious’

Charles Lewis III - November 15, 2022

Dustin H. Chinn's often hilarious, scalding play at Aurora takes on gentrification and cultural erasure

Lit

At Mission bookstore Medicine for Nightmares, the remedy for struggle is familia

Alan Chazaro - November 11, 2022

'A lotus blossoming in mud': Rare POC-owned bookstore rows against the tides of late capitalism with poetry, music, art

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