Gentrification and Grassroots Resistance in San Francisco's Tenderloin
- 1 March 1995
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Urban Affairs Quarterly
- Vol. 30 (4) , 483-513
- https://doi.org/10.1177/107808749503000401
Abstract
Since World War II, San Francisco has been transformed by the high-rise postindustrial restructuring of central cities and by corresponding gentrification pressures. In one low-income inner-city district, the Tenderloin, residents organized and fought successful battles against the gentrifying growth regime through the 1980s. Moving beyond being a reactionary antigrowth movement, Tenderloin activists have advanced a proactive, neighborhood-sensitive regime, with a social-production capacity of its own, represented by the neighborhood's nonprofit housing movement. Their example teaches about the neighborhood-responsive progressive forces that characterize San Francisco and about the potential of grassroots mobilization as a response to international economic restructuring.Keywords
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