Unionizing Workers at Intel Confront Anti-Homeless Sentiments from Tech Community I The Hampton Institute

Unionizing Workers at Intel Confront Anti-Homeless Sentiments from Tech Community

Collective outrage reverberated from the heart of San Francisco’s Mission District and across the country when a hail of media coverage descended on what one Silicon Valley import had to say about the homeless people share his neighborhood. Justin Keller, who is colloquially referred to as the ‘tech bro,’ is the founder of the start-up Commando.io. After living in San Francisco for three short years, he wrote an open letter to Mayor Ed Lee demanding that the homeless were moved out of his neighborhood so he does not have to “see the pain, struggle, and despair of homeless people” going to and from work.

This letter comes amid one of the most aggressive periods of gentrification and mass displacement for San Francisco residents as property values and rents in previously working-class areas of the city have skyrocketed, replacing the established population with highly paid tech workers from well-funded start-ups and social media giants like…