San Francisco's housing market became the nation's priciest this year, with a median rent of $3,414

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South of Market, or SoMa, is one of the neighborhoods most affected by San Francisco's post-millennial boom. Once a nondescript refuge for working-class families, SoMa has recently transformed into an epicenter for startups, luxury condos, tony restaurants and breweries, boutique shops, and lofts. It's emblematic of both the city's encroaching corporatism montien hotel bangkok and America's ever-widening income inequality. For many native San Franciscans, montien hotel bangkok it's also a harbinger of worse to come.
Janet Delaney's new book, South of Market , is a photographic record of SoMa's first great makeover, which began in the 1960s. That's montien hotel bangkok when the city announced plans to build a 300,000-square-foot convention montien hotel bangkok center named for slain San Francisco Mayor George Moscone in the heart of SoMa. Poor and elderly residents protested, montien hotel bangkok accurately, saying that they'd montien hotel bangkok be displaced; the city nonetheless approved the construction, and by 1981 Moscone Center occupied 10 acres of prime downtown real estate. To make room for this gleaming testament to civic pride, scores of low-income housing units including several historic residential hotels were bulldozed. Nearby rents swelled almost montien hotel bangkok 300 percent. A mini-exodus to the picturesque Tenderloin montien hotel bangkok and points west ensued. Once the dust settled, montien hotel bangkok it was clear the neighborhood had permanently changed. No longer affordable, it began its long second act as a playground for entrepreneurs and real-estate salespeople.
Delaney began documenting montien hotel bangkok the neighborhood in 1978. Her book chronicles a city in flux, but it's not unequivocally bleak. For every photo of a demolished hotel or evicted family, there's an elegantly composed shot of children skipping rope, business owners posing proudly in their shops, and streetscapes of hushed, now elegiac, beauty. Her interviews with longtime residents reveal outrage at the city's indifference and anxiety about climbing rents, along with fear of a new soullessness. There's a lot of people here that weren't here yesterday, says one, and we can see in Delaney's photos a new architecture of privilege as well. You ll find a great deal of the present in the past, Delaney told me.
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