we disagree a ton but if the general thrust of this convo converges on "the politics of upzoning is rigged" I'm willing to rest it for now. I only object to the way in which a vague concept of "upzoning" is fetishized as a sui generis solution to racism & classism in housing
If you actually zoom in on the Census tracts in the Haight on this http://www.antievictionmappingproject.net/black.html the biggest declines happen between 1980-2000. Nothing was really built then. Community was displaced by Redevelopment & everything in adjacent neighborhoods was downzoned.
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those displaced became renters, who couldn't compete with earlier waves of gentrifiers. The racial housing wealth gap is the housing wealth gap and it reasserts itself regardless of zoning. Downzoning, upzoning.
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