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Gentrification
Bookmarks
Rebecca Solnit: Google Invades San Francisco
Rebecca Solnit's LRB diary on Google's presence in San Francisco — arguing that tech wealth and private commuter buses were displacing long-term residents and erasing the city's identity as a refuge for artists and dissidents. The essay that crystallized the tech-gentrification debate.
San Francisco Tech Boom Brings Jobs and Worries
NYT on the 2012 San Francisco tech boom — the influx of tech workers driving up rents, transforming neighborhoods, and creating visible inequality between tech workers and longer-term residents. An early document of tensions that would define the city's politics for a decade.