and Oakland's Black population has declined amid upzoning.
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Replying to @DarwinBondGraha @kimmaicutler
I am almost positive that Oakland experienced net downzoning from 2000-today. Remember that downtown is only 2% of the city.
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Replying to @Maxtropolitan @kimmaicutler
Downtown, Lake Merritt Station, Broadway Valdez, West Oakland, all up-zoned & are most desired areas to build in.
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Replying to @DarwinBondGraha @kimmaicutler
Lake Merritt: allows a couple towers amid general downzoning. The courthouse would be illegal today. So would Scottish Rite.
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Replying to @Maxtropolitan @kimmaicutler
Greatly upzoned the edges of the district, which is where developers want to build anyway.
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Most of the Black exodus from Oakland occurred during the Aughts, prior to the upzoning. Chauncey Bailey, before he died, chronicled it. 1/
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Replying to @RobertGammon @DarwinBondGraha and
As Bailey noted in a series of stories in the Trib, Black families left Oakland in large numbers before the Great Recession. 2/
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Replying to @RobertGammon @DarwinBondGraha and
Many cashed in, selling their homes before the foreclosure crisis, while many others lost their homes during the crisis. 3/
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Replying to @RobertGammon @DarwinBondGraha and
Oakland upzoning had nothing to do with why 35,000 or so African Americans left between 2000 and 2010. End/ http://www.bayareacensus.ca.gov/cities/Oakland.htm …
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Exact-amundo. Zoning is a small part of the larger racial inequality/space/gentrification story.
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I'm aware it was simplistic to frame the original statement that way but ppl frequently bring up tech as the sole contributor to loss of
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Replying to @kimmaicutler @DarwinBondGraha and
Of the community doesn't recognize that %s were declining decades before.
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Me thinks "tech" is just a lazy short hand for high-income/high-wealth, mobile, young people who benefit from gentrification of urban areas.
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