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It is funny to remember when the People's Anti-Bedtime and Ice Cream for Dinner Front vomited on Google busses to usher in a worker's revolution. At the same time, the stories of displacement featured in this article are **exactly what the supervisors who enacted the 1970s downzonings had in mind.**
Fischer 🛠️🚇
@fischer.bsky.social
· 4h
kind of funny to look back on. did any of this work? no. were they at least fighting the good fight? absolutely not lol sfstandard.com/2026/08/16/g...
12:48 PM · Aug 19, 2026
Here's the Environmental Impact Report (lol) from the 1978 downzoning. The entire idea was to make the city so expensive that lower to middle class people would just live somewhere else.
This reminds me of Keith Haring, a White kid from Pennsylvania who moved to NYC in 1978, starting his "Clones Go Home" stencil campaign in 1980 because he was mad that other White people were also moving to Greenwich Village.
Matt Edens
@scruffycities.bsky.social
· 2h
Yeah, and the activists - kind of like Jeremiah Moss in Vanishing New York - are chasing an "authentic" past that's large part fantasy.
Yeah, and the activists - kind of like Jeremiah Moss in Vanishing New York - are chasing an "authentic" past that's large part fantasy.
Exactly.
"Which means that, not unlike super-rich shoppers or Times Square tourists, he came to town chasing his own fantasy, albeit one with less overt marketing."
www.fredericknewspost.com/opinion/colu...
They are trapped in a 1970s version of environmentalism that has made California and the west coast worse and more inequitable.
I'm a lefty, but I think the inability to understand basic economics is the biggest failure of liberal politics in this country.
Refusing to believe economics are real other than within capitalism
Yes.
It frankly as bizarre, unserious, and wrong-headed as the climate, elections, and science denialism we see on the right.