The Mission Anti-Displacement Coalition (MAC) is a coalition of community organization and individuals whose goal is to stop the displacement of working class people in the Mission District and San Francisco. MAC’s core organizational members are St. Peter’s Housing Committee, People Organizing to Defend Economic and Environmental Rights (PODER), Mission Economic Development Association (MEDA), Central American Resource Network (CARECEN), and Dolores Street Community Services (DSCS).

We employ two main strategies to fight displacement; democratizing the planning process and challenging inappropriate development projects in the Mission District. We believe that disenfranchised members of our neighborhood, including working class communities of color, not developers, should be steering the planning process. One way we do this is by creating and advocating for the People’s Plan, a set of zoning policies and maps created by working class Mission residents that work to meet the housing, economic development, open space, and transportation needs of the people most vulnerable to displacement. Over the last five years hundreds of Mission residents have worked to create, edit, and finalize the People’s Plan.

MAC also fights to stop market rate development in the Mission District that is increasing surrounding land values. As a result of appealing the 2660 Harrison St project to the Board of Supervisors, we won a quasi moratorium to stop the approval of market rate projects on industrial land in San Francisco until the rezoning for the area is completed.

MAC is strongly committed to leadership development within our community through advocacy of the People’s Plan, leadership and skills building trainings, and direct action on developers and decision makers.