News Analysis

Displacing the Dream: A Report on Bay Area News Coverage of Development and Gentrification

As of 2006, Oakland and San Francisco had each lost 20-25% of their African American populations. Displacing the Dream exposes the failure of Bay Area newspapers to adequately cover the crisis of gentrification and displacement facing the Bay Area today.

The Center for Media Justice analyzed 3 months of coverage in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Oakland Tribune and the San Jose Mercury News. The result was a report on the dominant and missing stories in coverage of gentrification and displacement in the Bay. With contributions from anti-displacement groups in the Bay Area and the Miami Workers Center, research support from Data Center, and poetry by Roopa Singh, Displacing the Dream is a groundbreaking tool to support creative communications strategies for organizers in the Bay and beyond.

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