Gentrification Oakland
Rental costs in Oakland are projected to go up, up, and away: In 2012, the average rent for a one-bedroom Lake Merritt apartment went up from $900 to $1,200. At the beginning of 2014, the average rent was $1,861, with a long way to go still to catch up to San Francisco's $2,631.
How will Oakland be affordable for everyone? Including families who have been in their homes for generations.
That's meant that a lot of people have been forced out of Oakland. Oakland's Black population dropped by 23 percent between 2000 and 2010, and it's safe to assume that as rents skyrocket, such displacement will continue.
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John Osborn commented
I think a conversation about what datasets are relevant to measuring whether gentrification is occurring could be useful in order to develop some sort of understanding about cause and effect of development in traditionally underinvested areas of the city.
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Scott Law commented
The best project for this topic is populate a database or spreadsheet with actual data concerning gentrification. There is a lot of assertions of "people forced out of Oakland" but have never seen any facts. How many ? What age ? Where did they go ? What caused a re-location - higher rents ?, a new job ? Better schools as children aged ?... What are the current solutions ? City vs county vs private charity (the Season of Sharing lists MILLIONs of dollars in Alameda County. Where did that money go ? It seems from articles that much of the money went for rent, deposits, housing expenses. How many helped in Oakland ?
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