SF Print Collective is having some kind of gallery opening next week, so I was perusing their site and came across a whole series of posters produced years ago for something called the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition. This beauty stirs up varying sets of emotions for me. Was anybody around when this campaign was in full swing? Link.
Previously on Mission Mission:
Yes. My neighbor (a moderate-income, lesbian renter, living in SF since the 1970s) had her car torched by the Mission Yuppie Eradication Project – they left a flyer in her burning car. The Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (MAC) was co-founded by Chris Daly, Eric Quezada, Renee Saucedo and Richard Marquez. MAC was partially an outgrowth of a group called STORM and another called Empty the Shelters. Here are some links to MAC’s history:
http://www.uncanny.net/~wetzel/macchron.htm ;
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2002/07/08/MN215970.DTL&type=printable ; and
http://www.sfbuildingtradescouncil.org/content/view/23/32/
From the MAC website:
Unfortunately, our effort to build affordable housing at 3400 Cesar Chavez, site of the closed Kelly Moore Paint Store, has been blocked. In a close 5-6 vote on Tuesday, July 31, 2007, the Board of Supervisors approved the project to build expensive condominiums & a Walgreens.
Their decision was a blow against the community planning process, and it flew in the face of the amazing community response. Their decision contradicts the City’s General Plan which demands more affordable housing in the eastern neighborhoods of San Francisco. It also contradicts a previous Board of Supervisors’ decision in which they required study of the socio-economic impact of condo developments.
That is unfortunate.
There are 63 low-income apartments on the corner of Mission and Chavez built by the BHNC. Moderate and middle income households belong in San Francisco, too. 3400 Cesar Chavez is a very welcome addition to the Mission.
“something called the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition” ?!!?!
Welcome to something called the Mission.
This used to be pasted up on the old overpass above Zeitgeist.
This won’t be “moderate” if it’s market rate
does anyone know anything about the story that the mission used to be an irish neighborhood?
Talking with my neighbor who has lived here since the mid-50s. There used to be 30 Irish bars on Mission. Miracle Mile, etc…
http://sflib1.sfpl.org:82/search~/a?searchtype=X&searcharg=%22miracle%22+mile&SORT=D&x=0&y=0
But Mission St getting torn up for BART construction in the 60s accelerated the move to the peninsula of both people and commerce (stores moving to malls in suburbs, new houses 1/3 less than SF).
“…a whole series of posters produced years ago for something called the Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition. This beauty stirs up varying sets of emotions for me”…
for the newbies on the block wanting to get involved peep game on the latest community effort to keep the Mission and the Eastern Side of SF vibrant, affordable and healthy over at the MAC blog… http://missionantidisplacement.blogspot.com/
Also, the neighborhood used to be Irish (as a matter of fact a large part of the City used to be Irish) immigrant working class. The Mission was also home to a sizable population of Ohlone Natives and Italian, Scandinavian, Spanish & Mexican immigrants. The point is… it was an affordable and welcoming neighborhood for low-income working class natives & immigrants from all walks of life.
I always get this confused with the Mission Yuppie Eradication Plan or whatever it was called back in the late 1990s and the made bomber giving tips on how to trash upscale cars and tips on which bars to bomb.
The MAC is a very elitist group. They have a very narrow vision of what the Mission should look like and resist any change to it whatsoever. In particular, they oppose any improvements. For example, as JimBeam mentioned they strongly opposed turning an ugly vacant lot into a mix of affordable and market rate-housing, needed retail space, and a community venue. Their fear is that if anybody who earns more than the minimum wage moves into the Mission then the “character” of the Mission will be changed. And, of course, change is inherherently bad. They ignore the fact that what has kept the Mission vibrant over the years is it has changed. Though it it is now strongly hispanic, it used be Irish. But the MAC cares little abou the history or the future — they believe that everything is perfect as it is and thay anybody who might alter the current perfection is unwanted yuppie scum.
Keep in mind that the Irish community voluntary left — they weren’t displaced by high rents and Irish businesses weren’t priced out by, for example, Latino hipster boutiques on 24th Street. They split on their own accord to neighborhoods west of twin peaks and to east bay suburbs. The Irish had begun moving out, en masse, even before BART construction tore up Mission Street. Latino immigrants settled in the Mission in part because of the vacancies left by the departing Irish. So before bringing up the argument that the history of the Mission is a history of change — and therefore it’s only natural that long-time Latino families are getting displaced by young, well-off, blogging newcomers, please be aware that the nature and the context of the current change is based upon displacement, rather than replacement.
And I’m not so sure what your varying sets of emotions were regarding the M.A.C. print ads. Did they make you feel hungry? or complicit?
I don’t want anybody to be displaced, but I also don’t want anybody to feel unwelcome in the neighborhood because of the color of their skin.
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