It has been heart breaking to see many friends of mine in the artistic community dislodged by Ellis Act eviction, many who are seniors and have had their homes for decades. One friend who has been in his apartment for almost 35 years is a senior on a fixed income and with no resources. He has many shelves of books and memorabilia that had will not be able to move (as he has no money to move anyway). None of the other tenants in his building want to go either, but one by one they are giving up the fight, choosing to move out of San Francisco entirely. But he has no where to go, no where to live where he would have access to such transportation and his infrastructure of medical providers. Everything here is what he considers home and has become terribly depressed that all things familiar are being taken away due to a landlord's greed at the prospect of selling the units as 'condos'. Such a shame that we are allowing things like this to happen and unraveling our social communities for quick profit. It is so wrong to destroy this old man's life this way for a buck. Do we as a society value money now more than people?
