Gentrification in San Francisco

            In this article written by Shereen Meraji from NPR, she writes about gentrification in a small Latino Neighborhood in San Francisco. The article begins in a Neighborhood in the Mission district in San Francisco and there is a dispute between tech employees and local residence over a soccer field. The tech workers rented out the field and the local community was not happy about this because of the growing number of outsiders buying out their communal things. Later on in the article Meraji states that housing in that area three years ago was 1,900$ an now the rent is about 3,200$.

            The basic definition of gentrification is rebuilding a deteriorated area and making it for middle class or upper-class. In some ways I agree with gentrification because it helps improve city and makes it “safer” new middle class people. I disagree with making housing prices so high that it forces the current residence move out. Typically lower income areas tend to have a lot of immigrants and life for them in a new country is difficult and gentrification makes their life just as hard.

  http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2014/12/27/373284989/icymi-2014-soccer-field-standoff-highlights-gentrification-tension