This
article written by Stephanie Taylor from KQED and she writes about gentrification
in San Francisco. A Chinese retiree, Owen Wang, was locked out of his apartment
in Chinatown when he was out running errands. He and another resident were left
with change locks and notes on their door asking them to bring their lease. A
lawyer that specializes in tenant right said that he has never experienced that
where they did not file anything, they just change the residences locks. In the
end the tenants were give possession of their homes and the owner of the
property was given a citation.
This
type of thing is a small sample of what has been going on in the Bay Area with
gentrification. This is happening in more in the tech hub around the Bay Area
so they can accommodate higher income residents. Gentrification I think now hearing more
stories like this, can be very dangerous because it forces lower income people
to move with a chance to keep their homes.
http://ww2.kqed.org/news/2015/07/28/san-franciscos-chinatown-fears-evictions-and-gentrification
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