S.F. Buys 6 Buildings, Keeping Artists and Others in Place

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Artist Rene Yanez marches against evictions. Photo by Hélène Goupil/Mission Local

By Rigoberto Hernandez and Lydia Chávez, Mission Local

Two longtime residents and artists, as well as tenants in 18 other units, will be able to stay in rent-controlled apartments, thanks to two nonprofits buying six buildings from a landlord who decided to back away from evicting tenants and, instead, sell the buildings to the city.

The purchase, part of the city’s small-sites program, will mean that the units remain affordable housing. The San Francisco Community Land Trust and the Mission Economic Development Agency will purchase the buildings. 

Read the complete story at Mission Local. 

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