I just completed a number of site updates and new features for the No Place Like Home project that I've been working on for the past two years.
Tag: gentrification
What does it mean to feel “at home” during an affordable-housing crisis? How does this crisis—leading to extreme rent burdens, precarious living situations, widespread displacement, and homelessness—impact people’s sense of belonging and community? And how are these personal impacts tied to broader social and ecological impacts—as families sacrifice basic needs to make rent, and as unaffordable housing drives sprawling, unsustainable urban development?
There's a great conference coming up hosted by the Film & Digital Media department at UCSC. Poetics & Politics will focus on bridging the gap between theory and practice in documentary film and interactive work. I'm very pleased to have been included in a panel on May 17 on Gentrification in San Francisco, where I'll … Continue reading Poetics + Politics: Santa Cruz, 5/15–17
Yesterday I filmed and photographed two anti-eviction actions in San Francisco as part of my ongoing Public/Transit documentary project. The protests were against the eviction of seven tenants from 812 Guerrero in the Mission by, Jack Halprin, a lawyer for Google, and against the many Ellis Act Evictions being pursued against teachers within the city. … Continue reading Photography: Day of Anti-Eviction Actions | April 11, 2014
Kristin M. Miller 
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