Gentrification

Let's gentrify like it's going out of style. Sidewalk bomb appeared 2007 in the Mission District.

Gentrification is when a low-cost, deteriorated neighborhood undergoes a physical change and turns into an upper-class, high-society area. It leads to higher property values and displaces previous residents who can no longer afford to live in their old neighborhood.

In the late nineties there was a Mission Yuppy Eradication Project.

Gentrification: Even better than cocaine. Seen around the Mission, 2008.

Also check out

• A year in the life of the Anti-Displacement Movement — a good chronology of some of the influx of 90s dot-com residents and businesses in the Mission district.