Tech Gentrification and the Right to Housing: Manissa Maharawal and Samuel Stein in conversation

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Tech Gentrification and the Right to Housing Manissa Maharawal and Samuel Stein in conversation From coast to coast people are fighting back against gentrification and for the right to housing and we are pleased to welcome Marissa Maharawal and Samuel Stein, the authors of two new books, to discuss their findings and help us continue to fight. About Anti-Eviction: The Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco A galvanizing story of how everyday people built a powerful anti-eviction movement in gentrified San Francisco. In the early 2010s, San Francisco experienced a tech boom that created both great wealth and great inequality. The city became known for runaway gentrification, a major housing crisis, and an “eviction epidemic” of long-term tenants. Yet these changes also drove an inspiring housing justice movement that exposed gentrification as far from inevitable. In Anti-Eviction, anthropologist and scholar-activist Manissa Maharawal tells the story of how residents built a powerful anti-eviction movement and how they fought—and sometimes won—a right to their homes and their city. Focusing on the stories of tenants facing eviction, Maharawal describes the different strategies for resistance that emerged as well as lessons for the broader national housing crisis, beyond California. This illuminating book offers not only actionable models for activism and resisting gentrification, but also a powerful study of how ordinary people came together to organize for housing justice and change their city. “This beautifully written book not only shows how activists fought back, but demonstrates the power of activist researchers to put their expertise to work changing the world. This is a work of scholarship that reads like a novel, driven by narrative and characters you won’t forget, while illuminating the complicated roots of today’s housing crisis.” —Sarah Jaffe, author of Work Won’t Love You Back: How Devotion to Our Jobs Keeps Us Exploited,…

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