San Francisco is losing thousands of rentals a year, and this 75-year-old grandmother is not putting up with it.

Luz Moran is resisting eviction from the Mission-district home she’s lived in for 35 years.

Here she looks through two years of paperwork from her landlord, who wants to turn her place into Tenancy in Common apartments. Because TICs are unregulated and unregistered, more and more of the middle class are turning to the homeownership model to avoid a move out of the expensive city.

I wrote about the phenomenon for the San Francisco Bay Guardian this week. For weeks, I poured through city documents and housing reports. I snapped the top photo at a rally for Jose Morales, another elderly tenant who is resisting an Ellis Act eviction.

This short slideshow was produced though the Knight-Carnegie Fellowship I did during the summer of 2007. Click on the icon to the right of the print story here.

I spent a night at a San Bernardo mosque while I was reporting on Muslim polygamy in the United States. Note: The people in this slideshow are NOT all polygamous.