Gentrification Maps (San Francisco, Oakland: rentals, condos, houses)

[sav858]

Not sure if this has been shared already, but this site shows SF and Oakland, as well as other cities, gentrification maps. It shows areas that gentrified from 1990 - 2000 and 2000 to present.

Kind of interesting to see the stats by census tracts and the large increases in residents with bachelor degrees.

Oakland:
Oakland Gentrification Maps and Data

SF:
San Francisco Gentrification Maps and Data

[marcopolo666]

Thank you SF Giants !! The huge area of gentrification since 2000 is all around AT&T Park (which opened in 2000). Empty warehouses and squats have been replaced by office and apt buildings, both new construction and renovation. Rotting piers and warehouses south of the park have been turned into entirely new neighborhoods.

I remember going to day games in SF in 2000 and literally having to step over guys passed out in their own vomit on the sidewalks that first year - 3 to 5 per game. There were also drunks sleeping in doorways (which still happens, just to a far, far less degree - and only on small side-streets).

People often use 'gentrification' with a bad connotation. The changes around china basin were 100% positive. It wasn't a question of the honest poor being forced out of their affordable rentals by the well-to-do, it was pure and simple 'take a stinking ****hole of empty warehouses and crack dens and bring it back into the city as a vibrant neighborhood'.

The SF city council should be on their knees in front of the Giants' management to thank them for the positive impact they have had in that neighborhood. I ranted a few month ago about how the city of Oakland was being very short-sighted wrt the A's. They should pick the worst blighted area in Oakland fairly close to freeway and BART and use eminent domain to buy it all up. Then sell it to the A's at cost for them to build their stadium (well, MOST of it. Keep part of it to build condos and business areas adjacent to the park). 5 years later they'd have a robust economy in that part of the city that was a ****hole before.