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Tenants Fight Longtime Neighborhood Landlord at 16th and Mission » MissionLocalTenants of the community live work space Station 40 took to 16th Street Bart Plaza Monday to publicly call out their landlords for evicting them from a building at 16th and Mission. The collectively run space, which houses about a dozen people, has been in existence for 11 years at 3030B 16th Street. Joined by housing activists such as the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project and Housing Rights Committee, the tenants were specifically calling on the landlord Emanuel Jolish, along with his wife Ahuva and son Barak Jolish, to take a deal from the Community Land Trust to buy their building and turn it into a collectively owned building. “Our position in this has remained the same: if the Jolish family wishes to sell this building, they should sell it to the Community Land Trust,” read a Station 40 tenant who only identified himself as Carlos from a prepared statement Monday. “The offer from the land trust would make it possible to maintain and even create more …