Ambassador Hotel (San Francisco)

[3] True crime author Miriam Allen deFord was a noted resident from 1936 until her death in 1975.

The now defunct Eviction Defense Network collaborated with ACT-UP SF to outreach to tenants, resulting in a successful Rent Board decision to lower most of the residents' rents due to the dilapidated conditions.

The Housing Rights Committee helped connect residents to an attorney who filed a successful class action lawsuit against the landlord.

Tenderloin Housing Clinic pursued a strategy of filing complaints through the Department of Building Inspection.

In 2000, the property was acquired by Tenderloin Neighborhood Development Corporation (TNDC), a nonprofit corporation that buys and repairs properties primarily located in the San Francisco Tenderloin.