Santiago Mejia/The Chronicle Show More Show Less 2 of4 The backdoor of the Clean Wash Center on Sunday, May 14, 2017, in San Francisco, Calif. The former tenants would exit and enter the building through this door. About 26 people who lived in alleged terrible conditions in the basement are now suing. The wash-and-dry business is located at 4690 Mission Street. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigateġ of4 The backdoor of the Clean Wash Center on Sunday, May 14, 2017, in San Francisco, Calif. Twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week, the steady thrum of washers and dryers droned a few feet above the basement where the tenants ate, bathed and slept.

Soto, 44, lived in the basement with her husband, Osmar Blandon, 46, and their 22-year-old son, Carlos. “No one should be living in this place,” said Idin Kashefipour, their attorney. Soto and 18 other former tenants, many of whom speak little English, are now suing their former landlord for damages after the city determined it was too hazardous for them to remain there.

It was unknown to city building and fire authorities until firefighters, acting on an anonymous tip, inspected the illegally converted storage space one month after the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland killed 36 people at a converted warehouse Dec. was known as 5 Persia Ave., an address that doesn’t exist on any map. The basement beneath the Clean Wash Center at 4690 Mission St. That has led to another ordeal for the former tenants, some of them undocumented immigrants and all of them of limited means: Although they no longer live in squalor, they have been forced to find affordable housing in a city with precious little of it.

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