Housing activist extraordinaire, James Tracey gave this talk to the Washington Tenant's Union in Seattle. The co-founder of the San Francisco Community Land Trust which uses public and private money to buy up housing stock and take it out of the real estate market talks about the San Francisco housing wars and the struggle to stop gentrification which is making housing costs sky rocket in Seattle and many metropolitan areas throughout the country. This process is being driven largely by out of state speculators coming in and buying up affordable housing stock and turning it to make quick profits. Tracy discusses ways to fight back. Author of the recent book, 'Dispatches Against Displacement', he is also a poet and co-author of 'Hillbilly Nationalists', 'Urban Race Rebels', and 'Black Power'.
- Length: 00:58:00
- Producer: Pirate TV
- Series: Education < 60 min.
- Category: Educational
