SF Desperately Offers $5,000 Airbnb Gift Cards to Get People to Leave Troubled Potrero Hill Housing Complex

The article was originally published on https://sfist.com/2025/08/28/sf-desperately-offers-5-000-airbnb-gift-cards-to-get-people-to-leave-troubled-potrero-hill-housing-complex/Are people really “squatters” if they paid rent, but the units were illegal and a rogue property manager was secretly pocketing the money? The City of SF says yes, and they're offering Potrero Hill tenants $5,000 Airbnb gift cards to move out. The City of San Francisco has been trying for years to demolish much of a bedraggled 54-building Potrero Hill public housing complex called Potrero Terrace and Annex, and replace it with sparkling new buildings. And they have good reason to do this — the complex has seen fires caused by squatters, and many of its dilapidated buildings were failing inspections time after time.