Homes Not Jails - Public Building Occupations

Public Building Occupations

  • Thanksgiving, 1992: occupied 250 Taylor Street in San Francisco (the first public occupation).
  • December, 1992: members reoccupied 250 Taylor Street, creating a standoff with police.
  • June 14, 1993: squatters occupied and barricaded themselves inside a vacant federally owned building at 1211 Polk Street in San Francisco; after a negotiating team outside held talks with Federal officials, the building was eventually given to a nonprofit housing agency.
  • Christmas 1993: San Francisco Homes Not Jails occupied 66 Berry St., a state-owned property.
  • May 2, 1994: Homes Not Jails and the Northern California Homeless Network occupied empty residential buildings on San Francisco's Presidio Army Base.
  • April 7, 2007: Homes Not Jails occupied a house in San Francisco's Mission District that had been vacant for four years. Faced with felony charges of conspiracy to commit trespass the occupiers left the same day.
  • April 11, 2011: Homes Not Jails occupied a multi-unit building owner by Kaiser Permanente left vacant for two years resulting in nine arrests.

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