Term Project Assignment: 10/9 Mission Local reports that the Mission District in San Francisco is in an advanced stage of gentrification. Emma Neiman writes that the district’s median income level, already above average at $73,718, is going to see further increases in the near future. UC Berkeley researchers Miriam Zuk and Karen Chapple, who published their finding in August, found that the two tech-booms, cultural richness, and transportation accessibility led the Mission on a path of rapid gentrification. Neiman emphasizes that the district’s gentrifiers are motivated by culture of the city: to identify and authenticate with the existing circumstances in social values.
Mission District was one of the poorest neighborhoods 25 years ago.
Mission District was one of the poorest neighborhoods 25 years ago.