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Gentrification

The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage The strange case of midnight renegade oleander gentrification camouflage
To disguise a neighbor's less-than-pristine house, she planted a hedge on the other person's land!
By Cary Tennis Mar 27, 2008
The strangers next door The strangers next door
A modern tale of gentrification pits black working-class folk against young white professionals pining for a fixer-upper.
By Laura Miller Nov 12, 2007
Band on the run in New Orleans Band on the run in New Orleans
Police have cracked down on funeral processions, a time-honored cultural tradition in the historic black neighborhood of Treme. But musicians vow to play on.
By Larry Blumenfeld Oct 29, 2007
Skid row makeover Skid row makeover
With chic lofts on the rise, Los Angeles' impoverished residents are being driven out of the last place they can call home.
By Evelyn Nieves Aug 8, 2006
"You got messed-up color" "You got messed-up color"
When my husband and I moved to a mostly black neighborhood four years ago, 8-year-old Tyrone became our friend. Then one day he asked me if I was white.
By Robin Lentz May 4, 2004
Bohemia lost Bohemia lost
I turn my back on a city that turned my head and then broke my heart.
By King Kaufman Aug 8, 2001
San Francisco's Proposition L is "too close to call"
With a margin narrow enough to be called "presidential," the outcome of the anti-development measure remains up in the air.
By Damien Cave Nov 11, 2000
Is the Internet a bad, bad boy? Is the Internet a bad, bad boy?
San Francisco's anti-growth Proposition L is an unnecessarily harsh referendum on the merits of the new economy.
By Damien Cave Nov 6, 2000
Clamping down on high-tech growth is good for high-tech Clamping down on high-tech growth is good for high-tech
San Francisco's anti-development Prop L will squeeze tech firms into a battle for survival. And nothing could be better for them.
By Wagner James Au Nov 6, 2000
Lounge Axed
Good rock clubs die every month, but Chicago's finest was better than any of them.
By Neal Pollack Jan 19, 2000
Whip me, spank me, gentrify me
A strange new romance is brewing between bourgeois taste and S/M styles.
By Annalee Newitz Jan 15, 2000
Did the Internet really ruin San Francisco?
When a Salon article suggested that the dot-commers had killed everything wacky and wonderful about San Francisco, our mailbox was flooded with reader replies. The debate continues here.
Nov 2, 1999
I'm the enemy!
At a meeting of San Franciscans trying to stop gentrification, I realize that I'm the Internet yuppie scum that's ruining my neighborhood!
By Carol Lloyd Oct 29, 1999
How the Internet ruined San Francisco
The dot-com invasion -- call them twerps with 'tude -- is destroying everything that made San Francisco weird and wonderful.
By Paulina Borsook Oct 28, 1999
The malling of America
Old Navy and Starbucks and Jamba Juice! Oh my! Plus: Feed looks at the latest trend in computer interfaces.
By Jenn Shreve Aug 13, 1999
From red-line to renaissance
Things are looking up in Harlem, but some poor black families are being driven out by the neighborhood renewal.
By Keith Moore Aug 2, 1999
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