Aaron Peskin as a Case Study of How San Francisco’s Utopian Activists Became Deformed into Tools for Profit

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And so the activists became NIMBYs. They now argued that San Francisco was full, like a parking lot on Friday night, or a lifeboat on the Titanic. Arguments like these ended up dovetailing with those from the big money interests the activists originally organized to fight. Together they supported candidates like Aaron Peskin, who as supervisor claimed to support affordable housing, but instead enacted policies to block it. As board president, Peskin presided over the defunding of Mission Housing Development Corporation, ensuring that no affordable housing would be built in the Mission District for over 10 years.

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