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Housing Displacement Project—Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Fellowship

Of San Francisco’s 404 privately owned single room occupancy hotels 30 reported that at least half their rooms were empty. Many had 100% vacancy rates.

If those 1,827 rooms were made available to the cities homeless it could have a serious impact on the problem.

Statistics were gathered to locate the six SROs with the highest vacancy rates. Then they were mapped and tagged with Housing Displacement Facts specific to each location.

The intervention strives to shed light on displacement.

Press Coverage

Guerrilla Art Project Uses News for ‘Housing Displacement Facts’By  Joe Eskenazi, San Francisco Public Press

The Bay Area housing crisis depicted as nutrition labels By Michelle Robertson, SFGATE

SF artist slaps notices on vacant SROs to spotlight homeless
By Adam Brinklow, Curbed San Francisco

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