003 // Just how progressive is the Bay Area?
Featured speaker: Asn Ndiaye
Californians often see the Bay Area and Silicon Valley as a leader in progressive causes, but how true is this? What are the undercurrents that shape the progressive agenda, and where are the blind spots? What can the left here learn from other states, or other countries?
Asn is a Research and Policy Analyst with Working Partnerships who works on housing, workforce, and transportation equity issues. He will frame his discussion from experience with the labour movement, electoral campaigns and lived experience in several states.
Related readings and resources
How Burrowing Owls Lead To Vomiting Anarchists (Or SF’s Housing Crisis Explained) – TechCrunch
Today, the tech industry is apparently on track to destroy one of the world’s most valuable cultural treasures, San Francisco, by pushing out the diverse people who have helped create it. At least that’s the story you’ve read in hundreds of articles lately. It doesn’t have to be this way. But everyo…
What We Get Wrong About Public Housing
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1978 California Proposition 13 - Wikipedia
Gentrification, Displacement, and the Role of Public Investment
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This salon took place May 4, 2018.