San Franciscos gentrification wars have long fostered a certain element willing to make the debate over affordable housing extremely personal.
During the first dot-com boom, members of the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project posted flyers encouraging residents of the once working-class Latino neighborhood to vandalize yuppie cars. During the current tech boom, as evictions soared, activists began using stencils to paint the sidewalks in front of certain buildings with an image of a suitcase and a message: Tenants here forced out.
But throughout all the turmoil, San Franciscos Chinatown 24 crowded blocks that have endured as a point of entry for generations of low-income Chinese immigrants has remained largely insulated from the rancor.
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