Gentrifiers to SF Mission Now Fear Eviction » MissionLocal
Tenant Bailey Nakano refreshes a chalked appeal on her apartment door. October 2, 2015 7:00 am On a hot day, the third-floor deck on a three-unit building two blocks from the 24th Street BART station might be a beautiful place to relax. But when a realtor asked the building’s tenants about it recently, their reply was a sarcastic negative. “Oh no, it’s terrible. It’s the worst,” Danielle McVay, who works at a service organization for low-income mentally disabled clients, recalls telling a realtor who asked. The realtor was showing the building to prospective buyers, who couldn’t help but notice the flyers and signs imploring them not to consider the building. Tenant pushback on perfectly legal transactions is the latest tactic of those wanting to stay. It has become increasingly common in San Francisco’s heated real estate market where tenants will make any effort to save a building from a sale that will likely result in the eviction of the existing tenants.Read full article from Gentrifiers to SF Mission Now Fear Eviction » MissionLocal
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