[su_heading size=”25″ align=”left”]Through the lens of a long-time Mission resident[\/su_heading]<\/p>\n\n\n
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As a Chicano and long-time resident of La Misi\u00f3n, it\u2019s been painful and heart-wrenching to watch my Latin gente being displaced and priced out of their homes and the very neighborhood that they built. The Latin community is the heart and soul of the Mission.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Documenting, in visual form, the hyper-gentrification we\u2019ve been experiencing has become a passion of mine. Virtually every week, when I\u2019m able, I\u2019m out there pounding the pavement and documenting the changes that I see occurring all around. I have taken more than 30,000 photographs to date\u2014 everything from people, homes, buildings, and protests, to signs of resistance (both literally and figuratively).<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This project has also become an outlet and an empowering way for me to not only document what I\u2019m witnessing, but also to express the anguish, heartache, and anger I\u2019ve been feeling at the evictions and displacement of my friends and neighbors, the closures of numerous Latin businesses, the oppressive acts, and the daily micro-aggressions that I witness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
In 1990, people of color\u2014predominantly Latino\u2014made up approximately 72 percent of the Mission District\u2019s population. That number had fallen to 57 percent by 2013, and is now only 48 percent. According to a recent report from the San Francisco Board of Supervisors, if changes aren\u2019t made soon, the percentage of Latinos residing in the Mission will drop to 31 by 2025. As the eradication of Latinos from the Mission continues, every day, many of us wonder, \u201cAm I next?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is said that pictures are more powerful than words. May these images impress on you what my words cannot.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
As a Chicano and long-time resident of La Misi\u00f3n, it\u2019s been painful and heart-wrenching to watch my Latin gente being displaced and priced out of their homes and the very neighborhood that they built. The Latin community is the heart and soul of the Mission. Documenting, in visual form, the hyper-gentrification we\u2019ve been experiencing has […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":28906,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3929],"tags":[7539,6207,3612],"coauthors":[18445],"class_list":["post-28900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-displacement","tag-gentrifaction","tag-mission-en","entry"],"yoast_head":"\n