San Francisco earthquake quarters

Two-hundred-fifty-thousand, half of the city's population, were left homeless after San Francisco's 1906 earthquake. Civilian refugees filled the Army hospital at the Presidio and others lived in tents in parks and on military posts.  Worldwide contributions to the Red Cross financed the building of 5,610 cottages by the San Francisco Relief Corporation that were ready four months later. The were set up end to end, row after row, in encampments. Tenants paid $2 a month toward the $50 cost of their cottage. Large families might occupy two or three cottages. When the camps closed, the new owners moved their new homes to other locations. 

The cottages pictured above, two of the nineteen surviving, were located in a camp just south of the Presidio. I came across them on a walk when we stayed there last year. Hadn't ever noticed them when we lived there.