Over the past year, the large, luxury shuttles have become a symbolic rallying point for protesters who are angry about soaring rents and evictions that have rattled this city. The large influx of tech workers has been blamed by many locals for speeding up gentrification.
“We know that these buses are having devastating impacts on our neighborhoods, driving up rents and evictions of longtime San Francisco residents,” Sara Shortt of the tenant advocacy group Housing Rights Committee of San Francisco, one of the organizations involved in filing the lawsuit, told the San Francisco Examiner. "We’ve protested in the streets and taken our plea to City Hall to no avail. We hope to finally receive justice in a court of law."
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