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Originally Posted by urbanactivist
Seems that the Bay Area is another unique formation of the "urban layout". If one were to consider all of San Francisco as the "revitalized urban core" it's clear that some slow growth has occurred. Oakland has a mix of some revitalization, but it also has some project areas where poorer families have been priced out. San Jose OTOH is in a slow urban transition, but still has room for some sprawl building.
Fresno perplexes me though. I don't get what the growth motivator is for that city.
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All of San Francisco is most definitely not revitalized/gentrified...plenty of poorer people have been priced out of SF as well over the decades (to a larger extent than Oakland, seeing as SF is the larger and more expensive city...plenty of them moved from SF to Oakland in fact), and it continues to happen here. But, i guess SF still attracts enough immigrants (from every economic spectrum), singles who may not be wealthy, but who don't mind living in small spaces on tight-ass budgets, and enough upper middle class to wealthy Americans in general, to more than make up for the numbers lost from the middle class/working class.