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Re:Gentrification's Price: S.F. Moves: Yuppies In, the Poor ... by chrischen on Monday May 07, 2018 @08:01PM (#17017565)
Yea but I think people take issue with it improving the place rather than improving the lives of the people that were already there.

Rent control is a band-aid solution to displacement caused by NIMBYism and the surplus of jobs from the tech industry.

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