So What Is Gentrification?Gentrification is a profit-driven process where private developers, landlords, businesses, and corporations, often supported by government policies and subsidies, reconfigure urban neighborhoods to cater to a newer, more affluent, and usually whiter class of people by displacing low-income and communities of color that have suffered from a history of disinvestment and abandonment. (summary from Causa Justa's Development Without Displacement report)
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Project Goals.
First they came for our homes. Then they came for our tents. Our lives are worth more than their profits off rents" #NoOnPUQR |
Our goals are to raise awareness through social change of the destructive effects of gentrification and to fight for affordable housing for all in the Bay Area. We hope to enhance and preserve housing, livelihoods and cultures of San Francisco Bay Area communities. We prioritize human rights in our goals and actions to stunt the growth of the homelessness and eviction epidemics.
In the fall of 2016, we worked with San Francisco Anti-Displacement Coalition, the Coalition on Homelessness, families, students, and other community members. Together, we fought for housing rights and against displacement and gentrification because it takes away homes and washes away long-time communities and cultures of our cities. |
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