Re: [sudo-discuss] WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay

Is there a way to encourage construction of middle class and low income housing? This is a tough question and has a lot do to with basic tax structure, social values & resources。 I lived in Berlin and there were plenty of high quality safe mixed income neighborhoods . The wealthy people usually lived on the top floors (light) . By the train station there were a lot of nice low income homes mixed in with condos and centex middle income duplexes about a decade ago which was cool. Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2014, at 10:20 AM, Gregg Horton <greggahorton@gmail.com<javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','greggahorton@gmail.com');>> wrote: Well hackerspaces along with pop-up shops, yoga studios, artisanal anything, third wave coffee shops and food trucks are some of the horsemen of the gentripocalypse On May 17, 2014 10:13 AM, "Romy Snowyla" &lt;romy(a)snowyla.com&gt; wrote: So I'm curious .. Once sudoroom moves out of it's current location what hot education tech start up moves in? I guess we are the frontline of the gentrification wave. Sent from my iPhone On May 17, 2014, at 9:30 AM, Sonja Trauss &lt;sonja.trauss(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: This is an Orwellian notion of anti-displacement. In the face of increased population these people seek to build nothing new. I really can't understand what they think is going to happen when the population goes up but the housing stock doesn't. Sf tried that! Look what's happening there! It sucks! This is the saddest thing to me because all efforts like this do, is make building more expensive and difficult. That means the only things that get built are at higher price points. Or, if they're slightly successful, whole projects are blocked, and they miss the opportunity to get capital to build something useful, instead of something stupid like a new calendaring app. On Friday, May 16, 2014, Romy Snowyla &lt;romy(a)snowyla.com&gt; wrote: http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2014/04/18/18754399.php WOSP – City of Oakland’s Plan for Gentrification: A Target For Anti-Displacement Activity : Indybay [image: 1888463_10151853655272163_918216235_n]<http://advancethestruggle.files.w… Advertisement for Public Release of WOSP in Feb. 2014 March 29, 2014 *Snapshot of the State and Capital in the Bay Area* If the Bay Area’s economy was compared to every other national economy in the world, it would be the 19th largest. The Bay has the highest GDP per capita in the entire United States, and even outpaces London and Singapore. It captures 40% of the entire flow of venture capital in the US (p11), which constitutes a higher amount of capital than that captured during the dot.com boom. While the Bay accounts for only 2.4% of the total jobs in the US, it has 12% of the computer & electronics manufacturing, 10.3% of software development, and 8.3% of internet related jobs (p13.) Seven of the top 10 social media companies are here – Google, Facebook, Yahoo, Twitter, Linkedin, Zynga, and Yelp. In short, the Bay is home to one of the highest concentrations of capital in the world and mapping out the composition of capital is key for us to situate ourselves as we continue to engage in class combat. *(Footnote #1)* The regional state is well aware of its place within the world economy. Over the past years, city politicians from the greater Bay Area have come together to generate a 30 year strategy about how to restructure the region’s housing, employment, and transportation structures. Plan Bay Area<http://onebayarea.org/plan-bay-area.html>(PBA) was developed by the Association of Bay Area Governments <http://www.abag.ca.gov/>(ABAG) to carry out the tasks of determining how the state can support and facilitate the accumulation of capital throughout the region. In order to grease the wheels of the local capitalist economy, the PBA aims to redevelop housing and transit throughout the Bay; New units are set to be built, new transportation “hubs” developed, and both of these projects are to be coordinated across single cities and the bay area as a whole. PBA aims to align the various metropolitan areas of the Bay in their development of housing