The community stayed until midnight, gathered around the screens in Supervisors' offices and overflow rooms like la familia watching the public comment. The human drama unfolding with each testimony was the reality TV of a neighborhood and people in crisis.

On a blazing hot Saturday afternoon, several hundred people marched through the streets of San Francisco’s Mission District as part of a growing movement against a developer’s plans for condo buildings at one of the Bay Area’s busiest transit hubs.

California is 50th in the nation for per student public school funding. So what happens when a huge condo development is proposed for the site adjacent a public Spanish immersion Elementary School whose play yard would be overshadowed by the new condo towers?

The Plaza 16 Coalition rallies against condominiums proposed to be built at the northeast corner of 16th and Mission at one of San Francisco’s busiest intersections.