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They are at time.com/newsletters and are separate from a paid subscription. ## Video: San Francisco's 1 Percent: Tech Wealth's Displacement Effect [Watch (HLS stream): San Francisco's 1 Percent: Tech Wealth's Displacement Effect](https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/P2DRQ76d.m3u8) (2:49)  _Published 2014-02-01. Rents are rising. No-fault Evictions are soaring. Many city resident's blame the tech workers._ --- Jul 27, 2023 4:10 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [An Anchovy Feast Draws a Crush of Sea Lions to One of San Francisco’s Piers, the Most in 15 Years](/video/ViNp874g/) ### An Anchovy Feast Draws a Crush of Sea Lions to One of San Francisco’s Piers, the Most in 15 Years [Katie Couric Interviews San Francisco's Mayor, London Breed](/video/Qyvcgso9/) ### Katie Couric Interviews San Francisco's Mayor, London Breed [Tech Agnostics](/video/Of19W1IW/) ### Tech Agnostics --- ## Transcript >> San Francisco is in the midst of an affordability crisis. Soaring growth in sectors like the tech industry is attracting far more people than the city was prepared to house. Rents are skyrocketing and long- term residents are being evicted, so landlords can lease their apartments to higher bidders. Activists, unhappy with changes in the city, are marching through the streets with picket signs. But while unhappy San Franciscans share angst, they don't share one single demand. Many residents focus their ire on the tech industry. Thousands of well- paid tech workers live in the city and commute to Silicon Valley each day on private shuttles known as Google buses. Activists have argued that these residents should move out of San Francisco and go lived in the [ unk ] places south of town where they work, rather than take up space in the city's scarce apartments. Others have demanded that successful tech companies pay to build more affordable housing in the city. At a city hall hearing about regulating the private shuttles, one angry San Franciscan asks for much more. >> Let's get real. These companies are filthy rich and we need to squeeze them for everything that they're worth, and that is real talk, okay? >> The sentiments of tech workers are harder to sum up because they're not yelling them through megaphones. Some have said protesters are exhibiting an undiagnosed sense of entitlement when they presume to say who can live in a neighborhood or assert that successful companies owe them something. A few have made highly publicized and criticized comments disparaging the poor and the homeless. >> I deeply apologize to you and any who have mistaken for my reference to Kristallnacht. >> One startup CEO posted on Facebook that there is nothing to be gained from having the poor so close to us. But many are sympathetic to those being displaced and point out that they are not all millionaires. The rising cost of living affects them too. While some have asked the city reexamine its relationship with capitalism saying the city by bay shouldn't be a place where the person who waves the most money on the auction block gets whatever they want. Many protesters have expressed much more modest demands, like wanting new arrivals to simply be aware of the impact they're having on the city. Others say the real problem is real estate speculators using loopholes in state laws to evict low income tenants. And some simply wants city hall to strengthen the city's already strong rent control laws. City officials like Mayor Ed Lee are still figuring out how to deal with the class tensions roiling in San Francisco. Other American metros struggling with growing income inequality will be watching closely to see what works and what stokes the flames. ```json {"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"San Francisco's 1 Percent: Tech Wealth's Displacement Effect","description":"Rents are rising. 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