![]() ![]() When Jeremy Stoppelman, CEO of Yelp, wanted to disrupt the rising housing costs in the Bay Area, he bypassed the traditional halls of power and instead met with the leader of SF BARF, the SF Bay Area Renters' Federation, Sonja Trauss. Despite its liberal reputation, the San Francisco Bay Area has for decades enacted and reinforced exclusionist housing policies that raise the cost of living and exacerbate inequality. Today, as we grapple with that legacy, the crisis is deepened by globalization and made all the more pressing in the face of climate change. The potent forces of racism have long shaped the narrative of home ownership in this country. As rising rents and home prices have spread across the country, massive movements against single-family zoning and for tenants' rights have followed. ![]() With riveting block-by-block reporting, New York Times reporter Conor Dougherty parses the history and economic forces that underlie the crisis from its epicenter. No place has felt this more acutely than the San Francisco Bay Area, where the mansions of tech billionaires stand streets away from encampments of cardboard. But as housing costs skyrocket in job-rich cities across the nation, that door to opportunity is swinging shut. ![]() For generations, arriving in a major city was the first step toward the American Dream. A stunning, deeply reported investigation into the housing crisisĬities are the engines of economic progress and the places that give birth to ideas that shape our lives. ![]()
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