Erika Carlos

1 week ago | 48hills.org | Yesica Prado |Erika Carlos

Last week, El Tecolote published part one of an investigative series titled “San Francisco is weaponizing parking rules to displace RV communities. Here’s how it started” by Yesica Prado and Erika Carlos. The eye-opening deep dive and riveting photojournalism is worth spending time reading, and the conclusions are devastating. Here are six points the authors highlight that trace the city’s disastrous intentions for working-class families.

2 weeks ago | eltecolote.org | Yesica Prado |Erika Carlos

Veronica Cañas sat inside a white RV with faded blue stripes on a warm summer day, cradling her baby boy as their laughter spilled through the open door. Outside, her husband washed the windows of their RV, keeping an eye on their six-year-old daughter zooming past in a plastic toy car. For years, along a quiet stretch of Winston Drive near Lake Merced, a tight-knit RV community of Latinx families carved out fragile stability in the shadow of San Francisco’s housing crisis.

2 weeks ago | eltecolote.org | Yesica Prado |Erika Carlos

For years, dozens of working-class families living in RVs along Winston Drive built a stable, self-reliant community on San Francisco’s west side. But in 2024, new city policies tore it apart. An El Tecolote investigation — based on thousands of internal emails, city records and firsthand accounts — reveals how officials quietly coordinated a crackdown, using parking laws and construction projects to push out RV residents even when safe alternatives didn’t exist.