Most Wanted: San Francisco flyers name and shame Airbnb hosts
by Julia Carrie Wong in San Francisco from Technology | The Guardian on (#1N4FV)
Posters in the city's Chinatown claim Airbnb landlords are 'destroying affordable housing for immigrant, minority and low income families'
San Francisco's gentrification wars have long fostered a certain element willing to make the debate over affordable housing extremely personal.
During the first dot-com boom, members of the "Mission Yuppie Eradication Project" posted flyers encouraging residents of the once working-class Latino neighborhood to "vandalize yuppie cars". During the current tech boom, as evictions soared, activists began using stencils to paint the sidewalks in front of certain buildings with an image of a suitcase and a message: "Tenants here forced out."
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