{"id":66621,"date":"2025-06-11T22:33:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/?p=66621"},"modified":"2025-06-11T22:43:37","modified_gmt":"2025-06-12T05:43:37","slug":"support-el-tecolote-investigative-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/support-el-tecolote-investigative-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"Support El Tecolote\u2019s community-powered investigative journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>More than a year ago, in March 2024, a community member stopped by our Mission District office with a tip: A small RV community \u2014 nearly a dozen vehicles, mostly occupied by Latinx immigrants \u2014 was about to be <a href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-parking-ban-bernal-heights-boulevard\/\">displaced<\/a> from Bernal Heights Boulevard.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I had just started as editor of <em>El Tecolote<\/em>, and this was exactly the kind of story we were built to tell. I turned to our photojournalist, Pablo Unzueta. Without missing a beat, he said: \u201cLet\u2019s go.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We grabbed our gear, drove five minutes, and began documenting what would become one of the most urgent housing stories for working-class communities in San Francisco.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<aside class=\"rv-recirculate\">\n  <div class=\"rv-titleCollection\">\n    <h4>San Francisco&#8217;s failed RV crackdown<\/h4>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"rv-linksCollection\">\n    <a class=\"rv-storyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-rv-crackdown-weaponized-parking\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n      <div class=\"rv-imgContainer\">\n        <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/mainstory-scaled.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"\/>\n      <\/div>\n      <h5>S.F. is weaponizing parking rules to displace RV communities. Here\u2019s how it started<\/h5>\n    <\/a>\n\n    <a class=\"rv-storyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-rv-crackdown-six-takeaways\/\">\n      <div class=\"rv-imgContainer\">\n        <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/takeaways.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"\/>\n      <\/div>\n      <h5>Six takeaways from El Tecolote\u2019s investigation into San Francisco\u2019s RV crackdown<\/h5>\n    <\/a>\n\n    <a class=\"rv-storyLink\" href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/whatsapp-rv-sf\/\" target=\"_blank\">\n      <div class=\"rv-imgContainer\">\n        <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\"  src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/eltecolote.org\/content\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/4-scaled.jpg?quality=89&#038;ssl=1\"\/>\n      <\/div>\n      <h5>RV Community: Join <em>El Tecolote<\/em> on WhatsApp to answer your questions<\/h5>\n    <\/a>\n\n  <\/div>\n<\/aside>\n\n\n\n<p>That first coverage led us to Winston Drive, where a much larger RV community \u2014 more than 50 Latinx families with children \u2014 was <a href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/winston-drive-rv-community-sf-state\/\">facing the same fate<\/a>. Their kids were enrolled in nearby schools. Parents worked as cooks, janitors, drivers. And now, they were being pushed out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>At first, we thought it was just another case of displacement ahead of a street repaving project. But alongside investigative journalist Yesica Prado, we started pulling public records \u2014 emails, memos, policy drafts. What we uncovered was bigger: City officials weaponized parking laws and construction projects as tools to evict entire communities, with no real plan for what came next.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We created a WhatsApp group to stay in touch with families in real time. We listened to their stories, published them in English and Spanish across visual and print platforms, and filed records requests to uncover what officials were saying behind closed doors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This week, we published <a href=\"https:\/\/eltecolote.org\/content\/en\/sf-rv-crackdown-six-takeaways\/\">Part One<\/a> of our investigation \u2014 a sweeping, year-month effort based on more than a thousand pages of internal city emails and interviews with dozens of displaced residents.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We revealed how a uniquely Latinx RV community on Winston Drive was dismantled \u2014 and how that crackdown became a citywide playbook.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Just days ago, Mayor Daniel Lurie introduced legislation to impose a two-hour parking limit on RVs across San Francisco. His proposal mirrors the exact tactics we documented in our reporting \u2014 the same citations, signage, and vague promises that left dozens of working-class families displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This work is urgent \u2014 especially as policy continues to evolve in real time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Our coverage has become one of <em>El Tecolote\u2019<\/em>s most-read series of the year. It\u2019s been cited by <a href=\"https:\/\/sfstandard.com\/2024\/09\/13\/recreational-vehicle-parking-ban\/\">The San Francisco Standard<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sfchronicle.com\/sf\/article\/s-f-eyes-homeless-crackdown-with-rv-ban-plan-19763481.php\">The Chronicle<\/a>, and used by housing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DAB-1rPgnjA\/?hl=en\">advocates<\/a> to successfully challenge unjust policies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But more importantly, the people we covered felt seen.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEl Tecolote is the official newspaper for us,\u201d said Angela Arostegui, who lived in an RV on Winston with her family before they were displaced.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We\u2019re proud of this work \u2014 but we can\u2019t do it without you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>El Tecolote<\/em> is a small, bilingual newsroom powered by and for our community. Every story we publish is free to read and available in English and Spanish. We don\u2019t have a paywall. We don\u2019t run ads that exploit your data. And we don\u2019t answer to corporate shareholders. We answer to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>If you believe journalism like this should exist \u2014 and that the families we cover deserve to be seen \u2014 we invite you to support our work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<script data-primary-color=\"#BF1F2C\" data-text-color=\"#ffffff\" data-btn-txt=\"Donate Today\" data-form=\"tkmUpg\" data-form-type=\"donation\" src=\"https:\/\/fundraise.givesmart.com\/forms\/form_btn_modal.js\"><\/script>\n<style>button.mc-donate-button {height: inherit !important;}<\/style>\n\n\n\n<p>Your donation helps us:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Fund original investigations that hold local officials accountable<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Pay fair wages to our small team of bilingual reporters and editors<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Reach Spanish-speaking readers via WhatsApp, print, and in-person outreach<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Keep our journalism free and accessible to those who need it most<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Help us keep telling the stories that defend, inform and uplift our communities. 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