Instead a one-square-mile cluster of streets a mile inland, away from tourist view, was set aside for black residents. Tech-driven gentrification is also transforming San Francisco, Oakland and other California cities but in Venice there is a twist. A police gang injunction is allegedly accelerating the process by hounding black and Latino residents. People who have owned property since forever got a huge bonus.”The gang injunction, however, injects an additional factor. Melvin Hayward, a gang-prevention activist with the Helper Foundation, called the Venice injunction obsolete and unjust.

Source: The Guardian December 01, 2016 12:01 UTC