700 Square Feet

700 Sq. Ft. is a multi-platform exploration by A Hxstory of Renting Collective, led by Erina Alejo, and their family’s apartment complex and neighborhood block of 19-years in the Excelsior District, a neighborhood undergoing rapid gentrification. Through visual-ethnographic interviews, archival research, and community workshops with the intergenerational and multi-ethnic residents, neighbors, landlords, and allies, the project unearths the iconography and narratives of life and solidarity at the apartment complex and neighborhood corner, prompting questions, imaginations, and visions of our shared futures.

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