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Background Information |
 Carnaval in the Mission, 2000 |
"What is
Gentrification?"
Tom Wetzel
Gentrification The King's College London Gentrification Research Website
Stats
on CA's Housing Crisis
May 2000, California Budget Project
Still
Locked Out
March 2001, California Budget Project
Lip Magazine Shame of the cities: Gentrification in the New Urban America (3/15/99)
Detropolis Has Gentrification Ensnared Detroit? (12/18/01)
Institute
for Community Economics
Excellent resources on Community
Land Trusts
Gentrification Conference Entitled "Upward Neighbourhood Trajectories: Gentrification in a New Century" Sponsored by Department of Urban Studies, University of Glasgow, Scotland (9/02)
Shelterforce Magazine Online (Published by the National Housing Institute)
United For A Fair Economy Organization devoted to exposing and examining inequality
Economics Explored The Left Business Observer
Articles
Washington Post Immigrant Workers Fed 90s Boom: New arrivals judged critical to economic growth (12/02/02)
Washington Post N.Y. Fiscal Crisis Is Echoed Across Nation (11/24/02)
Los Angeles Times NYPD Officer Suspended After Refusing to Arrest Homeless Man (11/30/02)
New York Times Magazine In Defense of the Boom: Wall Street Didn't Do It, by Michael Lewis (10/27/02)
New York Times Magazine For Richer: The Disappearing Middle, by Paul Krugman (10/20/02)
Brookings Institute Policy Brief #1 - The Housing Disaster That's Not Being Fixed (07/96)
Brookings Institute Policy Brief #3 - Reviving Cities: Think Metropolitan (06/98)
Brookings Institute Policy Brief #60 - The Internet and the New Economy: What Lies Ahead? (12/00)
Tenant Resources |
Limo and U-Haul |
Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act (Pushed by Gregory R. McConnell)
Ellis Act
Cwynar v. San Francisco (Condominium conversion)
California Tenant Handbook - State of California
Resources page at Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
Institute
for Community Economics
Excellent resources on Community
Land Trusts
National Tenant Resource Directory (From Washington State Tenants' Union)
Video, Web, and Other Media |
 Demonstration at Planning Dept. |
Related Films and Videos Documentaries and films dealing with housing, displacement, Dot Coms and community organizing
Ghost Sites Archived Dead Dot Com Websites
First Aid for the Dying Dot Com
The Homeless Guy blog is dedicated to telling the stories and ideas of those who have experienced homelessness first hand.
Los Cybrids - La Raza Techno Critica
"The New Gold Rush; or The How-To on How to Become a San Francisco Bay Area Landlord" A Poem by Andrena Zawinski
City for Sale: The Transformation of San Francisco by Chester Hartman
Shaping San Francisco Interactive project examining buried history of San Francisco
NPR's Morning Edition on the High Tech Boom (9/20/00)
CBC News Online Report on the "New Economy" and U.S. Economic Boom (9/28/99)
National
& International Organizations and Links |
 "The Caminata", A Community March for the Mission, August 2000 |
The Big Issue Sold by homeless vendors who keep 70p of each issue. UK's biggest current affairs weekly, with 1.2 million readers. Campaigning for social justice.
Food
Not Bombs
Serving free food to hungry people
across the world. Not just service but political direct action.
Homes
Not Jails
Direct action housing reclamation.Sites for Boston,
San Francisco and Washington, DC.
Inequality.org
"News,
information and expertise on the divide in income, wealth and health."
See the Income
Gap Article
Institute for
Community Economics
57 School Street
Springfield, MA 01105-1331
P hone: (413) 746-8660
Fax: (413) 746-8862
info@iceclt.org
www.iceclt.org
Movimento
Dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST)
Landless movement in Brazil; education issues, human rights in the
region and how to get involved.
National Coalition
for the Homeless
1012 Fourteenth Street, NW, #600
Washington, DC 20005-3471
Phone: 202.737.6444
Fax: 202.737.6445
info@nationalhomeless.org
www.nationalhomeless.org
National Housing
Institute
439 Main Street, Suite 311
Orange, NJ 07050
Phone: 973-678-9060
Fax: 973-678-8437
nhi@nhi.org
www.nhi.org
One Chicago
Organization of Northeast Chicago. Big umbrella group for different community
orgs in one of the city's most diverse neighborhoods.
Ontario
Tenants/Toronto Tenants
A clearinghouse site of links and information about Canadian tenant issues.
PolicyLink
101 Broadway
Oakland, CA 94607
P hone: (510) 663-2333
Fax: (510) 663-9684
info@policylink.org
www.policylink.org/EquitableDevelopment/
Squat.net
"An international internet magazine focused on squatted
houses, car sites and other free spaces."
Santa Monicans For Renters Rights
Tenant.Net
Large informative site focusing on New York State
Tenants
Resource Center
Information and links for tenants and landlords in Wisconsin.
TenantRights.Net
Global Resource For Tenants, Homeless People, Refugees, 1st Time Home Buyers
& Squatters.
Serving all nations and the entire USA with focus on Colorado, especially
Denver and Boulder.
Tenants Rights Action Coalition (British Columbia, Canada)
The Tenants Union
(Washington State)
3902 S. Ferdinand St.
Seattle, WA 98118
Phone: (206) 723-0500
Fax: (206) 725-3527
TDD: (206) 723-0523 (for the hearing impaired)
www.tenantsunion.org
*Also
from the Tenants Union, National
Tenant Resource Directory
United For A Fair
Economy
37 Temple Place, 2nd Floor
Boston, MA 02111
Voice: (617) 423-2148
Fax: (617) 423-0191
www.ufe.org
Western Center on Law & Poverty partial listing of legal organizations in California.
Organizations Specific to San Francisco Bay Area |
 Silicon Valley office park |
Art
SF
(415) 430-2160 ext. 9412
www.artsf.org
Bar
Association of San Francisco - Lawyer Referral Service
465 California St., Suite 1100
San Francisco, CA 94104
Phone: (415) 989-1616 (TDD: (415) 782-8985)
www.sfbar.org/lrs/general.html
Frequently Asked Questions
En Español
Berkeley
Rent Board
2125 Milvia Street
Berkeley, CA 94704
Phone: (510) 644-6128, TDD: (510) 981-6903
Fax: (510) 644-7723
rent@ci.berkeley.ca.us
www.ci.berkeley.ca.us/rent
Cellspace
2050 Bryant Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 648-7562
Fax: (415) 285-2809
info@cellspace.org
www.cellspace.org
Coalition on Homelessness
468 Turk Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Phone: (415) 346-3740
Fax: (415) 775-5639
coh@sf-homeless-coalition.org
www.sf-homeless-coalition.org
Day Labor Program
474 Valencia St. #295
San Francisco, CA 94103
Fax: (415) 255-7593
http://www.sfdaylabor.org
Eviction Defense
Collaborative
429 South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 986-9560
Hip4SF
High Tech & Internet Professionals in support of San Francisco
arts and culture
www.hip4sf.org
Housing Rights Committee
of San Francisco
427 South Van Ness Avenue
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 703-8644
info@hrcsf.org
www.hrcsf.org
Just Cause Oakland
1601 Telegraph Ave.
Oakland, CA 94612
Phone: (510) 763-5877
victory@justcauseoakland.org
www.justcauseoakland.org
La Raza Centro Legal
474 Valencia St., Suite 295
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 575-3500
Mission Anti-Displacement
Coalition (MAC)
Phone: (415) 431-4210
Fax: (415) 436-9707
mac_sf@igc.org
Mission Agenda
2940 16th St
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 436-9707
Fax: (415) 436-9170
magenda@energy-net.org
Mission
Housing Development Corporation
(Non-profit housing advocates)
Oakland Association of Realtors
Oakland
Tenants Union
4043 Piedmont Ave
P.O. Box 227
Oakland 94611
Phone: (510) 704-5276
People Organizing
to Demand
Environmental & Economic Rights
(PODER)
Phone: (415) 431-4210
poder@igc.org
Popular Noise Foundation
a nonprofit organization with the mission to stop the accelerating disintegration
of local music in the
San Francisco Bay Area and put in place new programs to preserve and benefit
its existence.
info@popularnoise.org
www.popularnoise.org
Rental
Housing Association of Northern Alameda County (RHANAC)
Argument AGAINST Rent Control by rental housing owners in the
East Bay.
RentersRights.info
A website whose mission is to provide renters, primarily in
Alameda County, with self-help tools so that they may work to resolve conflicts
with their landlord or property manager.
Saint Peter's Housing
Committee
474 Valencia St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 487-9203
http://thecity.sfsu.edu/~vivienda/page1.html
San Francisco Community
Land Trust Collaborative
www.sflandtrust.org
San Francisco Late
Night Coalition
268 Bush St., #2931
San Francisco, CA 94104-3503
Phone: (415) 820-3256
info@sflnc.com
www.sflnc.com
San
Francisco Rent Board
25 Van Ness
Ave. (At Market St.)
Suite 320
San Francisco, CA 94102-6033
(415) 252-4600 (24-hour recorded
information)
(415) 252-4660 (24-hour faxback service)
rent_board@ci.sf.ca.us
www.sfgov.org/rentboard
San Francisco Tenants
Union
558 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
Phone: (415) 282-6622
sftu@slip.net
www.sftu.org
South of Market
Anti-Displacement Coalition (SOMAD)
Neighborhood resource for issues related to housing, planning,
land use, redevelopment, etc.
P.O. Box 191212
San Francisco, CA 94119
somad_coalition@yahoo.com
www.somad.net
SomArts Cultural
Center
934 Brannan Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
Phone: (415) 552-2131
Fax: (415) 522-0136
info@somArts.org
Tenant Associations
Coalition of San Francisco (TAC)
P.O. Box 420846
San Francisco, CA 94142
Phone: (415) 241-2929, (415) 339-8327
tac_sf@yahoo.com
http://www.geocities.com/tac_sf/index.html
Tenderloin
Housing Clinic
Homeless Program
Phone: (415) 771-2471
Fax: (415) 921-8691
Legal Services
Phone: (415) 771-9850
Fax: (415) 771-1287
Articles and Information Specific to San Francisco Bay Area |
 Lofts - Another Sign of Gentrification |
If you are doing research on the Bay Area, these newspapers' websites have deep archives on these issues:
sf.indymedia.org's Housing Coverage
Fact Sheet on Bay Area Housing (Downloadable Microsoft Word document)
Mission District Changes by Tom Wetzel
A Year In the Struggle by Tom Wetzel
Justic Department's "Weed and Seed" Program in San Francisco
Renter's Voice - Newsletter of Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco
Bay Areas 45 Worst Slumlords How to avoid the worst landlords is to know who they are before renting from them...
SF Chronicle Funding drying up in UC-biotech partnership. (12/19/02)
SF Chronicle Low-income buyers get homes thanks to Bay Area land trusts: "The whole idea is to take real estate out of the speculative market. Housing and land are basic human rights." (12.26.02)
SF Chronicle S.F.'s Final Count Finds Huge Leap in Homelessness. (12/03/2002)
SF Chronicle S.F. Finances on Skids - Big Deficit Forecast: Tax revenues went in tank this year. (11/16/02)
SF Chronicle Outlook grim for commercial real estate. (10/03/02)
SF Gate No New Dot-com Job: Ex-tech workers are creating their own non-tech businesses. (6/25/02)
SF Chronicle After the Bust: Ugly buildings standing empty. (3/4/01)
SF Chronicle Lapse of Luxury: Crash puts crimp in Bay Area spending. (3/14/01)
SF Chronicle Skyrocketing Rents force Out Non-Profits. (7/28/00)
SF Chronicle Mission District fears Dot-Com tide. (6/15/00)
SF Chronicle (Bryant Square) Dot-Com Office Project OK'd Despite Protests.. (5/5/00)
Salon.com How the Internet Ruined San Francisco. (10/28/99)