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Startup Exploits Evictions to Create Party Pad for Tech Workers

Kevin Montgomery · 11/13/14 03:15PM

Single-room-occupancy hotels are some of the last scraps of low-income housing left in San Francisco. But for the city's high-tech strata, they're just another piece of property to flip for profit. And one tech-centric housing company stands accused of using unlawful evictions to turn a SoMa SRO into a gaudy co-op for dozens of tech workers.