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In reply to the discussion: The Bleaching of San Francisco: Extreme Gentrification and Suburbanized Poverty in the Bay Area [View all]Nye Bevan
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The Bleaching of San Francisco: Extreme Gentrification and Suburbanized Poverty in the Bay Area [View all]
xchrom
Apr 2014
OP
Just did a super-quick google on Detroit real estate. Found these cuties ca 1930 house for $52,000
KittyWampus
Apr 2014
#10
That last one is something else. Detroit had some absolutely beautiful homes. n/t
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#44
And nature is close at hand, as abandoned lots are engulfed in foliage...
Arugula Latte
Apr 2014
#52
Had a friend that their house was valued at about 20k years ago, after the subway went in that
RKP5637
Apr 2014
#4
Interesting topic- lower income people don't have cars but need to get to work somehow.
KittyWampus
Apr 2014
#19
Absolutely disgusting how these "tech companies" are creating well-paying jobs
Nye Bevan
Apr 2014
#12
Revitalizing depressed areas in the manner you suggest would be even more heinous.
Nye Bevan
Apr 2014
#21
The SF Chron ran an article recently that disassembled the protesters movement.
Xithras
Apr 2014
#56
Tax breaks so that people earning $77k per year can live in San Francisco instead of commuting?
Nye Bevan
Apr 2014
#25
I think about how little I paid 25 years ago for my half of a San Francisco apartment with a
Arugula Latte
Apr 2014
#57
she can afford to live in SF, just not in the neighborhood she was in. And looking at the photos
KittyWampus
Apr 2014
#28
The subject of this article makes $77,000 per year and would like to live in SF's Mission District.
Nye Bevan
Apr 2014
#23
The problem isn't that the techs pay well. It's that the displaced poor people's employers DON'T.
Lizzie Poppet
Apr 2014
#42
Exactly. Another case of misplaced outrage. Like the focus on unions. The anger should not be
stevenleser
Apr 2014
#63
Why do poor people want to live in a high cost of living area like San Francisco?
FarCenter
Apr 2014
#45
Isn't it in one's self-interest to move to a place where your income goes farther?
FarCenter
Apr 2014
#71
The city is less than 1/5 the metro area and less than 1/10th the Consolidated Statistical Area
FarCenter
Apr 2014
#76
In the 90's when high school dropouts were getting high-paying internet start-up
closeupready
Apr 2014
#51
A city is the people in it. San Jose and SF have the same people, in shifts
Bluenorthwest
Apr 2014
#65
It's always the same. Hippies find a cool place, make it artsy, fun, and real, and fucking yuppies
Zorra
Apr 2014
#64