Note: today, David Brooks wrote a new column about how the wealthy are walling off lower American classes from understanding the newest cultural signifiers, which contains an egregious paragraph about him taking his friend to a gourmet sandwich shop that has received ample ...read more

• By Jeremy Fassler
  Jul 11, 2017

What happens when you take a traditionally working class area with cheap housing, flood it with venture capital money in the form of high end housing, and market the hell out of it to aspiring home owners? If you guessed "rapidly rising property prices" and "pricing locals out ...read more

• By Ben Cohen
  Feb 17, 2016

You've likely read at least 15 articles and essays in the past year that hysterically declared, “All the artists are leaving San Francisco and moving to the East Bay!” Although people have been complaining about that for 30 years, the story has gotten juicier lately because some ...read more

• By Virginia Pelley
  Feb 17, 2016