[Huskrrrr]

“hipper Oakland.”

Beating up whitey is chic.

[GeronL]

trying to improve a ‘hood is now a bad thing?

[BenLurkin]

in need of an organic supermarket, better restaurants and "a coffee kiosk with patisserie bites."

[Bronzewound]

I’ve heard the word “gentrification” several times recently.

Wondering what the word would be if the Oakland standard were introduced into a nice neighborhood in SF?

[Billthedrill]

"Why do you think you can move into someone's ancestral land and start taking it over, evicting them from their homes and pushing out their businesses?" wrote Lambert, who moved to the city eight years ago.

"Ancestral" - you keep using that word. I don't think it means what you think it means.

[roadcat]

Hmmn, I wonder if this is the same jerk I had to deal with a couple years ago. My wife's mom owns a house in SF. This jerk and his boyfriend moved in next door, and started organizing a few other residents into creating a community garden and a newsletter. Unfortunately, he ran roughshod over longtime residents, ignoring their privacy. There's a strip of land, an alleyway that runs behind mom's backyard. Traditionally used for fire emergency access, and residents to access backyards. This jerk fenced it off with a gate and started planting trees and a pathway. Then he had the city cite my mom-in-law for overgrowth in her yard (mostly because it didn't fit in with his plans).

We fought the violation notice and got it revoked. Mostly because the supposed permits for planting trees behind mom's house had been forged in her signature by this jerk. Yep, he wanted his way and forged her name (in a way she never signs anything) on permits. I got in a big argument with the guy, who was a yuppie gay interloper new to the community. Mom-in-law and neighbor next to her been there since the early 1950s while these wine-sipping yuppies just arrived recently from out of state. After I threatened him and his business along with a couple other friend neighbors on our side, he and his boyfriend moved last year. Might be the same guy, all I know was his name was Steve. Might be a different guy, but the intentions are the same. Troublemaker to long-time residents.

[PapaBear3625]

Online critics swiftly labeled him a pushy colonizer with a "white settler mentality." They denounced him as representing a wave of tone-deaf newcomers trying to remake the city in their own image without consulting their African-American, immigrant and lower-income neighbors who held it together for years.

Can you IMAGINE the uproar if residents of a white neighborhood openly voiced that kind of attitude against a black couple moving in? Obama would have called for federal troops to come in.

[marron]

“Gentrify” means fixing up your property without my permission.

[informavoracious]

“If you like your slum, you can keep your slum.”

[thecodont]

There’s a Whole Paycheck on Bay Street near Lake Merritt. What’s his beef?

[Rockpile]

Hmmm, How much has Oakland Councilman Kalb and his stooge Danette Lambert done to drive out poorer residents by jacking up their property taxes?