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‘It’s like a cemetery’: the trend turning San Francisco’s colorful houses ‘gentrification gray’

The Guardian

by in San Francisco

November 19, 2021

Richard Segovia’s house is as loud as the Latin rock music he teaches children to play in his basement studio. With colors ranging from jungle green and royal blue at the pavement to a red and yellow sunburst at the ridge, the otherwise modest Spanish-style home is essentially one enormous mural, a crowded portrait of long-gone musicians, Segovia’s family members, social activists, various psychedelia, and the odd jungle animal.

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