>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 ....
Back in the early 1980s, the Village Voice quoted an East Village artist as saying, "We're the Duartes of the gentrification movement." Back in the late 1980s, there was a big fight in the neighborhood over the conversion of an old building facing the east end of Tompkins Square Park into upscale apartments (the Christodora is its name); Iggy Pop lives there now.
Doug