Merchants on 24th Street Feel Displacement Pressures, Mull Over Protections

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Connie Rivera, owner of Mixcoatl. Photo by Lola M. Chavez/Mission Local

By Laura Wenus, Mission Local

Merchants along the 24th Street corridor where a new proposal seeks to protect them feel the city’s affordability crisis just as strongly as tenants fear displacement, but their views on how to remedy it are as varied as their wares.

District 9 Supervisor Hillary Ronen’s first proposed legislation offered a trio of land-use based protections for businesses on 24th Street that were developed in a yearlong collaboration between the city and community-based organizations on the 24th Street corridor.

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