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RSS Feeds`I don`t have anywhere else to go`: why tenants fear renovation of neglected public housing
(The Guardian United States)

 
 

27 january 2020 23:12:51

 
`I don`t have anywhere else to go`: why tenants fear renovation of neglected public housing
(The Guardian United States)
 


Golden Gate Village is a government-owned complex in one of California´s wealthiest counties - in an area with a cycle of gentrification and black displacementKaren Ashby´s apartment in a five-story high-rise in Marin City, California, sits on a hillside bordered by preserved open space, just above an estuary in a secluded arm of the San Francisco Bay. The surroundings are idyllic, but the two-bedroom apartment she rents there is falling apart. The window screens are coming loose, the cabinets and appliances are old and damaged, and the unit hasn´t been painted in over a decade.Ashby is one of almost 700 low-income tenants at Golden Gate Village, a public housing project a few miles north of San Francisco, in one of California´s wealthiest counties. Both the project´s residents and local authorities agree the complex is in dire need of renovations. But some tenants fear plans to overhaul the site will lead to a cycle of gentrification and displacement that has played out in other parts of the Bay Area, and uprooted black communities. Continue reading...


 
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