My Neighborhood and Me

My name is Lillian brim am a 23 year old San Francisco native born and raised in the Mission District. There is a lot of history and culture in the neighborhood. We are mostly known for our array of different murals and rich history, connected to social change and the struggle and fight people went through for human rights. My neighborhood at one point was full of forward thinking people and the working class. Originally it was predominately a Hispanic neighborhood during the late ninety’s, early two thousands there was the rise of the yuppies. They came in and caused gentrification to a place I called home.  It started with  raising  the rent use to go for $800 dollars a flat, within a matter of a year or two the rents sky rocketed to the highs of  $2,500 dollars and up.The  people had been living there for years had to find other places to live. Historical places that represented the culture of the neighborhood where slowly getting shut down. Coffey shops, skateboard shops and clothing stores were being put in their place. Completely stepping on the culture of the neighborhood and what it stood for and still stands for to this day . The People who moved in came with their own agenda of how things should be ran. Looking at the people who have been in the community as if they were lost, I’m all for new people coming in and bringing knew things to the community. But to come in as if you own the place and call it you’re own with no regard of the history or culture of a place isn’t OK. the way i see it if you are coming in to a community,you should try and be embraced into the community not put the people in the community out.