By Daniel Hirsch, Mission Local
Real estate agents and investors with plans of visiting an open house at a stately Edwardian on Folsom Street were greeted Tuesday afternoon with a somewhat unexpected scene – a motley crew of Mission activists and neighborhood characters holding signs and singing, “If you buy this house, you will have bad karma.” A small brass band played along.
The house for sale was the so-called Pigeon Palace, a six-unit building whose current tenants hope to buy the building so they can convert it into permanently affordable housing with help of the San Francisco Community Land Trust. The tenants say this is the wish of their elderly landlord, but the conservator representing her estate contests that claim and has put the house on the open market.
Tuesday afternoon, that open market looked a bit dismayed.
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