Sarah Brandt is a San
Francisco public school teacher and lifelong City dweller, who is currently being Ellis Act evicted from
her Mission District apartment, alongside her 98 year old neighbor, Mary
Elizabeth (M.E. or Emmy) Phillips. Emmy has lived in her home for over 40
years.
The original footage was
captured on January 17, 2014 as part of a storytelling circle called
"Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors." This
mini-clip is part of a series of mini-clips honoring fourteen City storytellers
who shared their eviction horror stories that evening around the fire.
Related event details:
"Campfire: Eviction Ghost Stories and Other Housing Horrors, "
Silverstone Cafe at (24th Street near Mission Street), 1/17/2014, 6 -9 p.m.,
co-hosted by Adriana Camarena with the project Unsettlers: Migrants,
Homies, and Mammas in the Mission District (unsettlers.org), and Erin
McElroy with the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project
(antievictionmappingproject.net.)
This work was partially
funded with a CalHumanities Community Stories Grant and a grant from the
Kenneth Rainin Foundation.