9781849352055-1849352054-Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco s Housing Wars

Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco s Housing Wars

ISBN-13: 9781849352055
ISBN-10: 1849352054
Author: James Tracy
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: AK Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages
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ISBN-13: 9781849352055
ISBN-10: 1849352054
Author: James Tracy
Publication date: 2014
Publisher: AK Press
Format: Paperback 200 pages

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Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco s Housing Wars (ISBN-13: 9781849352055 and ISBN-10: 1849352054), written by authors James Tracy, was published by AK Press in 2014. With an overall rating of 3.5 stars, it's a notable title among other books. You can easily purchase or rent Dispatches Against Displacement: Field Notes from San Francisco s Housing Wars (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.3.

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San Francisco is being eroded by waves of cash flowing north from Silicon Valley. Recent evictions of long-time San Francisco residents, outrageous rents and home prices, and blockaded "Google buses" are only the tip of the iceberg. James Tracy's book focuses on the long arc of displacement over almost two decades of "dot com" boom and bust, offering the necessary perspective to analyze the latest urban horrors.

A housing activist in the Bay Area since before Google existed, Tracy puts the hardships of the working poor and middle class front and center. These essays explore the battle for urban space—public housing residents fighting austerity, militant housing takeovers, the vagaries of federal and state housing policy, as well as showdowns against gentrification in the Mission District. From these experiences, Dispatches Against Displacement draws out a vision of what alternative urbanism might look like if our cities were developed by and for the people who bring them to life.

James Tracy is a Bay Area native and a well-respected community organizer. He is co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust (which uses public and private money to buy up housing stock and take it out of the real estate market), as well as a poet and co-author of Hillbilly Nationalists, Urban Race Rebels, and Black Power.

In Oakland, California on March 24, 2015 a fire destroyed the AK Press warehouse along with several other businesses. Please consider visiting the AK Press website to learn more about the fundraiser to help them and their neighbors.


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