
Gentrification: The Musical! Hits San Francisco
San Francisco’s creeping gentrification was the central theme of a recent musical, City Not For Sale, starring schoolchildren between the ages of 5 and 11.

San Francisco’s creeping gentrification was the central theme of a recent musical, City Not For Sale, starring schoolchildren between the ages of 5 and 11.

South Park’s 19th season has already been called the show’s best in a decade for taking a hatchet to political correctness run amok. In this week’s episode, the citizens of South Park banish the town’s “racist, trigger-happy” police force because of their newfound PC sensibilities.

A local Bay Area rapper who goes by the name Equipto confronted San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee on Wednesday night and called him a “disgrace to Asians,” blaming him for spurring the housing crisis that has displaced thousands in the city.

the Los Angeles Times suggests that the influx of money into previously poverty-stricken and abandoned areas could be correlated with firearm-related crime as well.

Some residents of View Park’s predominantly African-American community fear an effort to designate the neighborhood, known by many as the “Black Beverly Hills,” as part of the National Register of Historic Places is really a masked gentrification ploy to push them out in favor of a more affluent, white population.