How to Kill a City: Gentrification, Inequality, and the Fight for the Neighborhood

by P.E. Moskowitz

we’re left with two choices: (1) further contort our cities and our lives to the will and whims of capital, or (2) build a movement capable of addressing our housing crisis.

San Francisco once was the most diverse county in the region, but now it is the only county that is losing diversity, while every other surrounding county (the suburbs) is making gains. The city will be majority white by 2040.

the median rent for a two-bedroom apartment is over $5,000.