Pretty soon, working class people will be completely blocked from living in the SF Bay Area. Whom do the techie pricks here think does the necessary work that has no glamour and little reward?


In 2010, people were still calling Oakland a place where people could move if they lost their apartments in San Francisco. Now this city of 400,000 people, half of whom make under $30,000 a year, is the fourth most expensive housing market in the country. "Affordable" has been redefined as $800 for a room in a shared apartment—at least, that's the maximum rent allowed on an affordable housing board on Facebook, which also cautions members not to use words like "'cool' (recently black) or 'sketchy' (currently black)" when describing Oakland neighborhoods. The Warriors' hometown, a city that once offered an easy step across the Bay for artists and young families, is no one's idea of a bargain anymore. This is doubly true for people who find themselves pushed out of the neighborhoods they grew up in.

In some ways, the rise of the Warriors has paralleled the rise of Oakland—although that framing doesn't quite suit the people who are hardest hit by gentrification. For every person who talks about moving to an "up-and-coming" Oakland neighborhood, there's a person who grew up in that neighborhood whose rent is coming up, and up, and up. Oakland is currently under a City Council–imposed rental market moratorium, during which time landlords can't raise rents beyond a small annual adjustment pegged to the consumer price index. (The ordinance does not provide further protection against evictions.)

https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/in-oakland-a-team-and-a-city-on-the-verge-of-gentrification