Utopian City Investors First Tried to 'Fix' San Francisco
Photo Illustration by Luis G. Rendon/The Daily Beast/GettyWhen advocates for minority tenants in San Francisco rallied outside City Hall in May 2018 against legislation to allow aggressive development across the state, they were met with surprising resistance: dozens of young, mostly white counter-protesters, drowning them out with cries of “Read the bill!” The confrontation became so heated that a 77-year-old protester fainted and had to be taken to the hospital. One of the counter-protesters w