Inner City Home is the portable mural project and final result of a partnership between the Precita Eyes Muralists Urban Youth Arts program, World Savvy, Healing Arts, and Sales Force Foundation. After an exhibition at Zeum, the mural was installed near the corner of Sutter and Hyde Streets, between the Nob Hill and Tenderloin neighborhoods of San Francisco. The themes represented in the mural were determined in part by the location where it was installed and by the many participants in this collaborative, community-building mural project. World Savvy and Healing Arts are the 2 organizations occupying the building at 999 Sutter Street. In fall 2006, World Savvy's partnering youth organizations focused on the themes of 'Assimilation and Identity.' Healing Arts is a group of therapists and healers who hold up the similarities in symbols found across cultures as connections between us all.

The central design element in the mural is a stylized caduceus, (symbol used to represent healing and the field of medicine) in combination with a street sign, locating viewers (once it is permanently installed) in the neighborhood which is known to locals affectionately as, 'The Tender-Nob.' Pointing down Sutter Street the sign reads, "Casa," in graffiti style letters, and pointing up Hyde Street the sign reads, (the Arabic equivalent of 'home.') This caduceus-sign is surrounded by hawk feathers, which are a symbol present not only in Native American but in many other cultures as well. Realistic serpents inter-twined around the signpost represent the wild side and ferocity of this borderline neighborhood.

To the left of the central caduceus-sign a man walks down the street holding a mic, (microphone) representative of one of the 4 elements considered central to urban youth culture and free speech. The dove of peace flies across the whole right side and through the man's heart. While the reference for the portrait was an image of Marcus Garvey, the Painting is not meant to be an exact representation of the man.

Tall residential buildings and city streets, men, women, and children make up the rest of the composition, and working to anchor the mural on either end, lotus flowers spring forth, symbolic in many cultures of the beauty of creation.

Directed by Fred Alvarado and Joshua Stevenson. Designed and painted by Ronnie Freeman, Eli Lippert, Ernesto Aguilar, Fernando Diaz, Mauricio Ramirez, Javier Schmidt, Tino, There, Robbie, Sue Amar, Victoria Restler, Lief Carroon, Ruben Wolff, Marcus Jackson-Kelly, Cory Spackman, Ben Tsai, Rajaram Varadarajan, Stephanie Guaman. Thanks to Dana Curran, Tim Taylor, and Shane Tapp. Funded by Sales Force Foundation.