Along the bustling corridor of San Francisco’s Mid-Market neighborhood stands a one hundred year-old former furniture store. It houses a colony of people who don’t have a lot of space in the city anymore: working-class artists.
The seven-story building at 1049 Market Street had about eighty occupants at one time; that number is now down to fewer than twenty-five. It’s no accident. A former pro baseball player bought the building as an investment property in 2012, and the remaining tenants are now facing what has become one of the largest mass evictions in city history. The clock already expired for several of them on June 23rd, but many are fighting to hang on to their affordable units and dreams of staying in the city.
REDACK: So now, it is brutal. We are all going. Everyone is being uprooted, and everything that has to do with the arts is being uprooted and thrown out of the city in the most cruel way.
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