I stopped by Vroman's in Pasadena (Southern California's oldest and largest bookstore) and bought a copy of Harper's Magazine from their news stand. This issue has a good cover article about the housing crisis in the Bay Area in which the author talks about The Ghost Ship fire in 2016 where 36 people died and how to get an "affordable" rental in Oakland you need to be part of or affiliated with the bay community, else just be a highly paid techie or programmer who can pay the market rate. The artist class is out of luck there. The Bay Area is done with them. There's also an brief archive reprint from Harper's on page 37 from a larger essay originally published in April 1932 titled San Francisco Blues by Lillian Symes that I found fascinating. Gentrification's first post-earthquake/fire in that boom town. #finereading #modernliterature (at Vroman's Bookstore) https://www.instagram.com/p/B5o1cgbleS-/?igshid=13c2pi8q74ne9
