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"driven up the property values and rent prices, creating animosity, evictions, and poverty" I'm sorry but I can't imagine the gentrification has caused poverty. It's probably made it more inconvenient and pushed out people in poverty though.
But for people who have seen their rents go up while working the same jobs at roughly the same pay, you can see that a larger percentage of their pay goes to rent.
"driven up the property values and rent prices, creating animosity, evictions, and poverty" I'm sorry but I can't imagine the gentrification has caused poverty. It's probably made it more inconvenient and pushed out people in poverty though.
Edit: Yeah, this actually did happen. Picture of the broken window: https://twitter.com/craigsfrost/status/414121201754468352/ph...
It would be much better to have 100 more cars on the road during rush hour, right?
I can't imagine they were protesting the literal act of using a bus to ferry employees to work. Rather this was an easy way to target members of a group the protestors feel wronged by/animosity towards.
It would be much better to have 100 more cars on the road during rush hour, right?
The bus remained where it was, the thought of driving to Mountain View with a broken window and flooded with cold air an unthinkable horror they could not endure. Or maybe because it was a crime scene?
"driven up the property values and rent prices, creating animosity, evictions, and poverty" I'm sorry but I can't imagine the gentrification has caused poverty. It's probably made it more inconvenient and pushed out people in poverty though.
Rent prices and other expenses skyrocketed. And not everyone has option to move out. So yes, it caused powerty.