Dispatches Against Displacement
Field Notes from San Francisco's Housing Wars
Published on 1. January 2015
Book
Paperback/Softback
150 pages
978-1-84935-205-5 (ISBN)
Description
The true story of how gentrification, fueled by income inequality, decimated working people in San Francisco.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 140 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
181 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84935-205-5 (9781849352055)
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09/2014
AK Press
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James Tracy is the co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels and Black Power: Community Organizing in Radical Times (Melville House Publishers) and the co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust. His articles have appeared in Race Poverty and the Environment, Shelterforce, Street Sheet, and Z Magazine.
Content
Table of Contents
Introduction: Of Delivery Trucks, Landlord Pickets and the Human Right of Housing
Chapter 1: Landgrabs, Lies and Levelers: Public Housing at the Crossroads
Chapter 2- Slowburn: San Francisco's Residential Hotels.
Chapter 3-The Civil Disobedience of Everyday Life: Homelessness in the Gilded City
Chapter 4-They Plan For Profits, We Plan For People: The Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition and the First Dot.com War
Chapter 5-Towards an Alternative Urbanism
Chapter 6-The Eternal Return: 21st Century Displacement
Introduction: Of Delivery Trucks, Landlord Pickets and the Human Right of Housing
Chapter 1: Landgrabs, Lies and Levelers: Public Housing at the Crossroads
Chapter 2- Slowburn: San Francisco's Residential Hotels.
Chapter 3-The Civil Disobedience of Everyday Life: Homelessness in the Gilded City
Chapter 4-They Plan For Profits, We Plan For People: The Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition and the First Dot.com War
Chapter 5-Towards an Alternative Urbanism
Chapter 6-The Eternal Return: 21st Century Displacement