International Hotel (I-Hotel) eviction and Manilatown protests

The International Hotel at 848 Kearny Street was the focus of a long-running tenant-rights struggle culminating in a widely publicized eviction of mostly elderly Filipino and Chinese residents in 1977. The eviction followed years of legal battles and mass protests that drew support from community activists, clergy, students, and labor unions and became a landmark event in San Francisco's Asian American and housing-justice history. The site and its protests are frequently cited in local histories of Manilatown and urban redevelopment. The I-Hotel eviction is a documented civic event with continuing memorialization in the city.