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The single-minded push for market-rate (high-end) residential development is recklessly racist, at the least

"A 2014 study estimated that between 2000 and 2020 more than 10,000 Latinos, or a third of the Mission’s Hispanic population, will have disappeared from the area."
Rise of the yimbys: the angry millennials with a radical housing solution, The Guardian

“What I saw today happen to Black, Latinx and Asian activists from working-class SF communities when they tried to speak about their struggle… was absolutely infuriating and pathetic. Shouted over by white people. Is there a more perfect encapsulation of our urban history?”
- Shanti Singh, Democratic Socialists of America member
YIMBYs Exposed: The Techies Hawking Free Market “Solutions” to the Housing Crisis, In These Times

“The losers in this deregulation agenda will be the working class and lower-income communities of color in these hot markets, which are the major cities in California.”
- Peter Cohen, co-director of the Council of Community Housing Organizations
Inside Game: California YIMBY, Scott Wiener, and Big Tech’s Troubling Housing Push, Housing Is A Human Right

"The study from the California Housing Partnership of the nine-county Bay Area found a 30 percent increase in rents between 2000 and 2015 was tied to a 28 percent loss in the number of poor households of color but no changes in white households."
Rising Bay Area rents hit communities of color hardest , The Mercury News