Abstract
Since Neil Smith’s works on the Lower East Side as “New Urban Frontier” much has been said on gentrification processes and their contextual variations. The wide range of scholars who draw on the concept to refer to processes of social change, displacement, and dispossession, attests to its gains in legitimacy and applicability far beyond the American academic field. The chapter attempts to offer an overview of the movement’s political outcome along with its scale shift from San Francisco to the Bay Area. It aims to contextualize the debate over the role of the tech industry in the process of gentrification in San Francisco. The study of activism in the context of neoliberal urban policies appears key to understanding the frames of a social movement in the making. Eviction Free San Francisco is a mutual help and direct action group that seeks to “hold accountable and to confront real estate speculators and landlords that are displacing our communities for profit”.
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