San Francisco Citizen

Here’s the beef against the poorly-rated Golden Gateway Apartments:

“Golden Gateway, which was built in a redevelopment area as middle-class housing, is now renting out apartments as short-term tourist or corporate rentals. There are dozens of examples right now on Craigslist. City law bars the owners of rental housing from converting it to hotel rooms, but a loophole in that law makes what Foo’s outfit is doing technically legal. But he’s clearly violating the spirit of the city ordinance that seeks to protect rental housing from hotel conversions.”

And here’s what it looks like on the ground, with yet another van out front:

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Is this what Redevelopment was all about?