no, I’d not heard about it 
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It’s a huge sentimental favorite for aged hippies and queers. (I might possibly be in one or more of those categories.) But that’s because it’s an accurate slice-of-life portrayal of the texture of SF living.
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Housing and rent and landlords are a pervasive theme. It’s a series of nine novels running mid-70s to the present, so one might be able to read it as diachronic cultural history. Bearing in mind, of course, that it is fiction.
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My understanding has been that the Dwellers have been a landowner / anti-development group from the start, so my primary interest here is what that sounds like in the late-50s into early 60s
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Ah, I didn’t understand from your original tweet that this was a specific organization, rather than “people who dwell there.”
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Hmm, yes, I see. Sorry I missed your point entirely. I have to admit to having mixed feelings myself, partly based on sentimental memories of SF in the mid-80s when I was first there. http://www.thd.org/about pic.twitter.com/lC54kfLnID
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it is hard for me to sympathize on this point when I see people dying on the streets.
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Replying to @ctbeiser
Yes. I’m on your side, but do feel the tug in the other direction as well.
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On a purely aesthetic note, I think the neighborhood organizations have an ossifying effect; they fetishize a style and make it “formal,” removing the elements that can’t be proceduralized. Even where housing needs are stable, I think they have poor effects on architecture.
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their love for the sign eclipses what made them love the sign to begin with; they understand rhythm and repetition, but not variation; they suffocate the city into a dull charicature of itself
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That’s really interesting! It makes sense, and I’m pretty sure I’ve seen examples, but I hadn’t thought of it quite like that. I’ll look out for it!
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