Some 30 protesters occupied several vacant properties in San Francisco’s Cathedral Hill neighborhood along Geary Boulevard Monday night as part of World Homeless Action Day, organizers said.
The demonstrators, led by the squatters’ collective Homes Not Jails, entered the shuttered Cathedral Hill Hotel at 1101 Van Ness Ave. at 6:40 p.m. Monday, according to Brian Wilkes, a representative for the group.
Activists with Homes Not Jails were joined by OccupySF participants in occupying the 600-unit hotel, which closed in October 2009
The activists said that enough residential units exist in San Francisco to end homelessness in the city.
Citing 2010 U.S. Census data, Homes Not Jails claims that more than 10,000 people are homeless in San Francisco but that the city has 30,000 vacant housing units.
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