San Francisco's Housing Activists Are Making the City More Expensive - The Atlantic

San Francisco's Housing Activists Are Making the City More Expensive - The Atlantic

Celebrate the holiday season by giving The Atlantic for free! Tech companies and workers are vilified while longtime homeowners who fight high-density growth continue to profit from rising rents and property values. Noah Berger / Reuters AD BLOCKER ENABLED Please consider disabling it for our site, or supporting our work in one of these ways His daughter was a 6-year-old kindergartner at the time. Latest from Politics It was a commentary on gentrification in the city. "The eviction song killed. Everything killed, which was strange, given something I haven't mentioned til now. Maybe half the parents in the auditorium worked in tech," Mooallem wrote. "And now they were watching their own children spear them as cartoon villains, literally cackling and throwing money over flutes of champagne, as they plotted the eviction of all those nice people. No one in the audience booed, of course, or huffed or stamped out. We were watching our kids perform.

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