I suppose everyone has a right to their sentiment on this one… The Chron is reporting today that the “hookers and hustlers” of Polk Gulch are maddened by the gentrification of their neighborhood.

Gay Shame, an activist group that champions the rights of “radical queers,” says gentrification is pushing out “hookers, hustlers, drug addicts, homeless people, trannies, needle exchange services, working-class queers and other social deviants.”

“…the lower Polk Gulch district was largely known as a seedy hot spot for drug dealers, hustlers and the homeless. But [a store owner] says the neighborhood has changed, in part because of a new neighbor who opened a $6.5 million restaurant and is paying for improvements to buildings near his.”

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