After Threatening Fliers Appear In The Mission, Tech Workers Reportedly Change Their Clothes

[KamaAina]

http://sfist.com/2015/09/28/after_threatening_fliers_appear_in.php

Anyone who's surprised that there's tension between those who've recently moved to San Francisco for jobs in the tech industry and those who lived here before this new wave arrived — well, you're probably not reading SFist anyway. But new fliers that have been posted in the city suggest that some folks are considering converting that tension into violence...or at least, rudeness.

As NBC Bay Area reports, "Tech Workers in San Francisco Feel Threatened by Long Term Residents," citing "hateful messages" like the flier posted above, which has been circulating on Facebook since last week.

Naming several notable local tech companies, as well as the tech news website TechCrunch, political player Ron Conway, and District 8 Supervisor Scott Wiener, the flier tells employees of the organizations/people to "leave the Mission."

"Your next warning will not be so polite," it reads.

[drm604]

1. Why?

[KamaAina]

2. Tech workers have been moving into SF's once-Latino Mission District in droves

driving rents through the roof and causing a sharp spike in evictions, many under the state's Ellis Act, which allows owners to evict tenants if they're going out of the rental property business (condo conversion, etc.) Needless to say, the neighbors are none too happy. This is the result.

True, most of the companies are 30 or 40 miles away in $ilicon Valley, but no one in their right mind wants to live here (me either ), so companies like Google run fleets of buses from SF. The Mission became ground zero for gentrification in part because the Google and other tech buses run through it.

[drm604]

3. Interesting.

I'm a tech worker myself, but in the Philly suburbs. I never ran into anything like this.

[KamaAina]

4. That's because there are many, many fewer of you in Philly

no one is being forced out of anyplace by you and your colleagues.

[drm604]

6. The tech workers aren't forcing anyout out of SF either.

It's the landlords who are raising the rents and forcing people out. Those landlords haven't done anything to deserve higher rents other than being in the right place at the right time.

There needs to be more affordable housing. Maybe these companies can help with that.

Threatening violence against innocent people is not an answer.

[mackerel]

9. Innocent people? The hipsters are ruining everything.

[Throd]

10. Ummm, they get to.

[marym625]

5. Wow!

I thought Facebook was building a compound for their employees.

[KamaAina]

7. I hadn't heard that one

Google had been talking about building housing around the Googleplex (they own a fair chunk of Mountain View), but the city has reservations. Besides, do we really want to go back to the 19th-century notion of company housing? "I owe my soul to the company store."

[marym625]

8. .

[Throd]

11. Neighborhoods change for better and for worse.

The Mission is not quite the shithole it used to be (good) but rents are becoming ludicrous (bad).