gentrification

[Michael Perelman]

Have you heard of the Yuppie Eradication Project in San Francisco, where
some anarchist/artist types made posters threatening to burn SUVs.  The
Mission district was a low rent/warehouse area.  They changed the zoning
to allow artists to work and live in lofts.  The realitors took advantage
of this law to convert the warehouses into expensive apartments, driving
up rents ....

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Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu
Chico, CA 95929
530-898-5321
fax 530-898-5901