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An imaginative map from the creator of the East Bay Yesterday podcast illustrates Oakland's natural and industrial history.
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We endorse Oakland Councilmember Dan Kalb and former Obama White House aide Buffy Wicks in the June 5 primary.
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Re: “Why Gentrification Is Not Inevitable”
Ethan - West and East Oakland basically are Detroit now, and there is no realistic plan with a funding source to fix that. Alameda and Oakland politicians plan is to wring their hands and create a few obstacles to developers/gentrifiers that will slow the inevitable and ensure that housing supply lags further behind demand and cost goes up (Google Paul Krugman's NYT article on why even most liberal economists disagree with rent control and housing restrictions for that reason). I agree on the need for a mix of skills (and since we don't like in a socialist utopia - incomes) in cities but for West Oakland proximity to SF and its desirability to techies is the only motor for lower crime, better environment, more services, more jobs. Yes, rents will go up, services will become more expensive and some low income people will be pushed out to less convenient areas similar in income and costs to how WO was when they moved there, rather than getting to enjoy a better environment at the same rent. That's life as a renter. I have a crappy 50 minute commute to SF and I'm one of the beautiful people! We don't have an inalienable right to live one BART stop from the financial district.
WO's best hope is to figure out how much developers can be squeezed to provide low income housing on the back of higher income developments without scaring them away. Alameda and Oakland politician's responsibility is to recognize a global economic trend when they see one and build an educational system that prepares people for the future, rather than making empty postures. Gentrification is inevitable, and for West Oakland most realists would consider it desirable compared to any of the realistic alternatives.