"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