Abstract
The rent strike at the Goodman Building took place during the height of San Francisco’s redevelopment agency’s destruction of thousands of homes of minority citizens. It began as a protest against the seizure of the building from Mr. Goodman, the owner, and developed into a protest against a lack of housing affordability, discrimination in housing and preservation of neighborhoods and heritage housing.
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Caldararo, N. (2019). Preface to the Goodman Building Ethnography. In: An Ethnography of the Goodman Building. Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-12285-0_2
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