Mission District fun facts

Question 1

MD location

Answer 1

San Francisco, California
N+E surrounded by highway 101
Plateau with low altitude
Sunniest climate in SF

Question 2

MD character

Answer 2

Victorian and Edwardian architecture
40% hispanic popultion
Highly religious
High concentration of murals

Question 3

MD TNCs driving change

Answer 3

Since 1990s and the dot com boom
Typically younger white males move into the MD due to its connections to the SV (google busses)
Causes gentrification and protests
Some companies are donating money to increase their relationship to the mission (google- $6.2m)

Question 4

MD evictions

Answer 4

Using the Ellis act, landlords can evict long-term residents living in rent-controlled flats in order to increase rent for new residents who can afford to pay this amount

Question 5

MD developers

Answer 5

Like the 1979 mission street building project (Maximus real estate- 290 new appartments) are being opposed by NIMBYs (like Plaza 16) because they are enhancing the impacts of gentrification on the long-term residents

Question 6

MD qualitative evidence

Answer 6

Alistair Crane- outsider
Adobe books- insider
Don Tassio- insider
Isabelle Pineda- insider
Yaron Milgram- outsider
16th and Valencia- mural
We got that in the Mission- Gangsta Flea
La Mission- film
Techzillas- mural
Anthony Holdsworth- art
Tourist agency