Monday marked the 116th anniversary of the 1906 earthquake in San Francisco, and while a mighty city has risen from those ashes, some remnants of that time have survived and may hold lessons for the housing problems we face today.
You’ll find them in all parts of the city. They’re usually the smallest home on the block but they represent a big part of San Francisco’s past. After the earthquake and fire wiped out most of the city, it faced a catastrophic housing crisis. Homeless people were living in tents on the streets and officials were desperately looking for places for them to live. Sound familiar?But back then, they took a much more practical approach to the problem.
They were called “earthquake shacks,” simple one or two-room structures that were placed in large camps for lower-income residents and workers to live in. Blackburn has spent years researching them and is inspired by what they represented. When the camps disbanded, many of the shacks were hauled by horse to Bernal Heights, which was mostly open land, and a parcel could be purchased for $5. But some shacks were taken to other neighborhoods, where they faced stiff opposition, which Blackburn said was the birth of San Francisco’s NIMBY attitude.
“The thing I like about it is, maybe it helps us revisit what our priorities are in this world that we’re living in. And how much do we really need?” said shack owner Ross Inden.
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