- This used to be my back door.
Family was renting it for about 800 dollars,
got sold for about 1.3 million
or something like that.
My name's Kai, I'm a 20 year old native
from the Mission District.
This is where we are right now,
Mission District, San Francisco, California,
Bay Area, United States...
The Mission is home for me.
Cultural center, center of my influences.
You know, a lot of places in the country
that I've traveled, and in the world,
are very segregated.
Not only race-wise, but also class-wise.
And I feel like that's something
that's very special about this city,
is this melting pot of everything.
The wealth is directly related
to peoples' displacement from their homes,
and that's what happened to me and my family.
My family was evicted twice.
Once in 2005 from the Mission District,
and once in 2008 from the Richmond District.
There's the kitchen, the living room.
It's funny, this bar is a really hipster bar now.
It used to be a motorcycle bar,
and I remember going to bed,
and basically the sound of the engines.
So I'm not really affected by noise too much.
That was my bedroom window.
This corner is completely different, though.
This used to be a Latino bakery,
called Mi Roncho, where everyone
in the neighborhood used to come
and now it's luxury condos as well,
and a luxury salon,
which is, that's just the way it is, I guess.
I just remember being in my house,
and having to stay in my room
while people are going through the house
and opening closets, and opening doors,
and checking the house out.
Having to be unseen, being told by my mother
that I'm not supposed to be here right now.
20th and Mission.
Not a lot has changed.
This is beautiful because a lot of it hasn't changed,
and I feel like looking around,
so there's certain moments when I walk around,
and I'm just like, "This is my neighborhood."
I have no idea what that is, no idea what that is.
So we're about to turn onto Clarion Alley,
one of the craziest streets,
probably in the world, in my opinion.
I remember that as a kid.
I used to have nightmares about that.
That was the scariest piece to me as a kid,
I don't know why, but there's something
about that that tripped me out.
My family used to live on this street
before I was born, down the street.
But that building got torn down.
This is kind of the ideal world, in my opinion.
I would love to see more streets like this.
Oh, this is the Mission District tour right here.
I've never seen that before.
Been seeing a lot of changes around here,
especially on Valencia Street
and I feel like this is just the perfect representation
of change, you got Dia de Los Muertos street art,
and then when you're looking up
you got luxury restaurant,
and right above it, brand new, luxury condos.
We're going to turn from Valencia Street,
onto Mission Playground, between 19th and 20th.
Astroturf section that was established
by city fields and by parks and rec and stuff.
It used to be complete cement,
and locals were always playing out here before then,
and I feel like, not until it got nice,
did the permits start coming.
You don't understand, you don't understand,
this is not about --
it doesn't matter, his field has never been booked
you don't understand, this field has never been booked.
How long have you been in the neighborhood, bro?
How long have you been in --
- Who gives a shit?
- [Kai] Oh, over a year.
(arguing) Guy - Who cares about the neighborhood?
The argument was basically between
neighborhood kids and tech workers coming in
with an idea that they had a right
to play and kick us off the field.
And I think a lot of Americans right now
can relate to the issues of space,
and whose space is it.
And the fight over who belongs here.
Instead of deciding to play with us,
they decided to take this half of the field.
And the rest of us played over there,
so there is still this segregation of people.
People that feel that they are part
of the community without showing that they're part
of the community.
I think, if those tech workers,
if people take their nose out of the phone
quite literally, and look into the real world,
we would have been playing together.
I don't know where I would be if I didn't have those places
to go after school and...
I don't want to think about where I would be.
I know that these kids need this place,
I know that this community needs places like this.
If you know something's wrong,
you can't just accept it for what it is.
And if you know that yes, there's a law in place,
that shouldn't be in place, change it.
People forget that community is only relevant
because of people.
So when you're displacing all the people
in the community, where does that culture go?
Where does that community go?