Goodbye, Oakland — and Every Other City Losing Its Battle With Greed

This is for the ones who’ve been here and don’t plan on leaving, no matter what the tech-boom money says

Alan Chazaro
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7 min readJul 8, 2019

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I’m not an Oakland native.

Although I’m born and raised in the Bay Area with Mexican immigrant parents, a UC Berkeley alum, and a husband married to…

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Alan Chazaro
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Bay Area writer, blogger, teacher. Books: Piñata Theory (2020); This Is Not a Frank Ocean Cover Album (2019). Twitter + IG: @alan_chazaro