Dot-Commers Go Home!

28 August 2000 - 8:45am

The dot-com backlash in San Francisco has gotten to the point where apartment-hunters indicate that they don't want to live with dot-commers.

Finding housing in the San Francisco Bay Area is bad enough. But for those who work for dot coms, the animosity is becoming palpable: As the nouveau riche moves in to the crowded city, the older middle class is being forced out. The Mission District, long a center of the city's entrenched, vibrant Hispanic population, is in the midst of a battle between the old and the new, and the new has been winning.

Source: Wired, August 27, 2000
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No matter how one wanted to organize the ideal city, housing security would be part of it. No community can function effectively if large numbers of its residents are regularly displaced or perpetually at risk of being displaced.