I think the article had a good hypothesis: the duality of gentrification (there is no way Oakland can't gentrify given the price of living in the City) and that

I think the article had a good hypothesis: the duality of gentrification (there is no way Oakland can't gentrify given the price of living in the City) and that the other half of people in Oakland were hit unreasonably hard by the recession. A little microcosm of growing economic inequality.