"It's Ground Zero in the United States Right Now for This Kind of Intensity of High Housing Costs and Displacement"

"If Josephine Hardy’s landlord successfully evicts her from her home of 47 years in July, she said her first stop would probably be a relative’s couch hours away. After that, she doesn't know.
"Three generations of Hardy’s family are now being forced out of their home of five decades, a painful process that began after an engineer at Intel purchased the three-unit property they have long rented in West Oakland."

Sam Levin at The Guardian reports on how black working-class residents are being pushed out of Oakland, California.