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In ''American Babylon: Race and the Struggle for Postwar Oakland'' (Self 2005), Robert O. Self describes the growth of Fremont, a new city in the SE Bay Area which grew rapidly after General Motors moved its Oakland plant there and greatly expanded:

<blockquote>''"Rapid property speculation within the vast new city [after 1964] drove land and housing prices up, as did strict enforcement of the general plan. Developers built enormous subdivisions and sold thousands of homes to a narrow range of middle-class families."<br/> &nbsp; &nbsp;'The shortage of working-class housing had long been an issue in Fremont...A survey conducted by the Associated Homebuilders of the East Bay in 1964 criticized the general plan for forcing up the costs of building and thus the price of homes...A report to the city manager in 1967 by the president of the Fremont City Employees Association claimed that 62 percent of Fremont City employees could not afford to purchase a home in the city...<br/> &nbsp; &nbsp; "The '''unlikely alliance between working-class activists and property developers''' in Fremont took its most public form in 1966. That yeaer, a 'Committee for Change' ran candidates against two incumbent 'proplan' councilmembers. Billed as an' economy slate'...the insurgents claimed that under the 'proplan' admininstration, the costs of city service has increased, but the slow growth philosophy of the council had chased industry away and kept developers handcuffed."&nbsp;<br/> &nbsp; &nbsp; -&nbsp;[https://books.google.com/books?id=b8MeAgAAQBAJ&lpg=PP1&dq=american%20babylon&pg=PA128#v=snippet&q= "unlikely%20alliance"&f=false American Babylon,&nbsp;p.127-28].&nbsp;''</blockquote>

 

=== 1970s new coalition of builders, environmentalists, integrationists, consumers ===

[[YIMBYtown_2017|YIMBYtown_2017]] was held in Oakland, California, in July 2017, hosted by East Bay Forward (now East Bay for Everyone).

 

 

 

== Concepts ==